UNIVERSITY of SA (Unisa) rector Antony Melck has resigned, the university announced in Pretoria on Monday. It quoted Melck in a statement as saying his move was prompted by silence from the university council on his offer to stay on to help with Unisa’s pending merger with Visa University and Technikon SA (TSA). Melck’s contract […]

FRANCE Albert Rene, who has been president of the Seychelles since he staged a coup in 1977, won a new five-year term Sunday in elections rejected by his main rival because of alleged irregularities. Rene, who leads the Seychelles People’s Progressive Front, was declared president by Election Commissioner Hendrick Gappy shortly after 1:00 am (2100 […]

Johannesburg | Sunday THE Cuban government knew during the Angolan conflict about apartheid South Africa’s nuclear capability, and took steps to protect its troops there, Cuban President Fidel Castro said on Saturday. In a marathon address at the closing ceremony of the NGO forum on racism in Durban, he said Cuban troops fighting on the […]

ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe has left for Libya, where he is attending festivities marking the 32nd anniversary of the revolution that overthrew the Libyan monarchy. Mugabe left for Libya from Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo, where he opened a new mint ahead of the city’s mayoral race on September 8-9. While opening the mint, Mugabe […]

Johannesburg | Saturday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki has agreed to meet with leaders of the country’s largest trade union federation following a two-day general strike, the ruling party’s online publication said on Friday. Mbeki’s decision comes after a request for a meeting by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), which launched a […]

Tripoli | Sunday LIBYAN leader Muammer Kadhafi, speaking on the 32nd anniversary of the nation’s revolution on Saturday, said Washington’s inability to catch Saudi extremist Osama Bin Laden demonstrated that “crazy” Western powers cannot deal with the new nature of warfare. Kadhafi (59) also praised Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s controversial land reforms, and warned Sudan’s […]

EGYPTIAN customs officers have seized 85 200 Viagra-like anti-impotence pills at Cairo airport smuggled in from Syria, in the country’s largest ever such haul. The trafficker admitted trying to smuggle the pills, with a market price of about two million Egyptian pounds (about $500 000), on behalf of a Syrian living in Alexandria on Egypt’s […]

THREE women were charged late on Friday in connection with an alleged international prostitution ring suspected of trying to take 100 women from Senegal to Libya. The Senegalese government said this week that 100 women who were stopped from leaving Dakar to attend a cultural festival in Libya would have been victims of an international […]

A CACHE of weapons has been discovered in the central Angolan town of Cuito near the former residence of Unita rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, the Lusa news agency reported on Friday. Some 60 RPG-7 rockets, munitions, uniforms and food supplies believed to have been buried ten years ago were found on Thursday by workers digging […]