Harare | Wednesday ZIMBABWE’S main opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), vowed on Tuesday to revive the collapsing economy if voted into the presidency next year, and unveiled a 1 000-page scheme on how it would run the economy through 2004. The economic scheme was the most specific proposal yet of how the two-year-old […]
POLITICAL turmoil and a cholera outbreak scared international tourists away from the small southern African kingdom of Swaziland last year, a new Central Bank report indicates. The disruptions sparked a flood of cancellations in the second half of 2000, resulting in a 4% drop in bed nights sold at major hotels. The Central Bank report […]
AN Mpumalanga convict who shot and killed a prison warder and escaped last Friday may have been given the gun by a girlfriend. Witbank police are trying to trace the woman who was seen speaking to escapee Francois Johannes Bloem (36) outside the Germiston Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Bloem then got into a car with […]
BRITAIN is due to launch a huge campaign in Morocco aimed at boosting trade between the two countries. Key areas to be targeted during the campaign, the first of its type, include “new information technologies, financial services and the exploration and distribution of oil,” an official source said. The three-year campaign has a budget of […]
Washington | Wednesday RESEARCHERS who said on Tuesday that most regions of the world would likely reduce child malnutrition by 2020 cited one glaring exception sub-Saharan Africa. “If current trends continue, sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in the world where child malnutrition will rise the next 20 years,” the International Food Policy Research Institute […]
SOUTH African diversified industrial firm Anglovaal Industries Ltd (AVI) unveiled a 25% rise in full-year earnings on Wednesday, and said it expected continued growth. Headline earnings per share which strips out exceptional items and their tax effects rose 24,9% to 99,4 cents in the year to June 30, 2001, versus the previous 79,6 cents and […]
Kempton Park | Wednesday SEVENTY-three Thembisa residents arrested land month for illegally occupying state land in Bredell, Kempton Park, were not trespassing, Kempton Park Magistrate Karen Pillay ruled on Tuesday. Pillay found that because the accused had thought they had legitimately bought the plots, and the state had failed to adequately warn them that they […]
AN unidentified group of people reportedly entered the French embassy in Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR) and abducted wife and children of the former president and alleged May coup attempt plotter, Andre Kolingba, and took them to an unknown destination, Radio France internationale (RFI) reported. Kolingba’s family members and other people had sought refuge at […]
SA stocks opened slightly weaker on Wednesday, taking a knock from softer overseas markets but a stronger rand gave good bottom line support, dealers said. At 0753 GMT, the benchmark all-shares index was down 43,2 points or 0,5% to 9,045.9 points, dragged down mainly by mining houses and industrial shares. ”The market is little bit […]
MOZAMBIQUE and neighbouring Zimbabwe on Monday agreed to launch the Beira Development Corridor, a road and railway network linking landlocked Zimbabwe to the Indian Ocean. The decision was announced after talks between heads of state of the two countries, Joaquim Chissano and Robert Mugabe in the Mozambique central port city of Beira. A memorandum of […]