OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH African mining giant Anglo American is planning to provide treatment to all employees in southern Africa with HIV or Aids – about 20% of its workforce – an Anglo executive said on Monday. Anglo American and associated companies employ about 160_000 people in the region. The South African Chamber […]
SOUTH Africa’s business confidence index fell in April bringing the decline over the past two months to 7.3% on domestic economic and political jitters, the SA Chamber of Business said on Tuesday. The measure, a composite index tracking the performance of 13 key economic indicators, fell to 102.5 points after spiking to a high of […]
Special Investigating Unit head Judge Willem Heath has applied to President Thabo Mbeki for permission to resign his position on the Bisho bench. Heath gained popularity as South Africa’s most effective corruption buster intended to move to Cape Town to open a private investigation and monitoring consultancy. In an interview on Monday Judge Heath said […]
NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo has inaugurated a committee to implement a west African moratorium on small arms trafficking. In October 1998 in Abuja, west African leaders signed the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) memorandum on the import, export and manufacture of small arms and light weapons. The committee will work to control the […]
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A TEENAGED boy who checked into a Kenyan hospital with stomach pains last week collapsed when doctors told him he was actually a woman and was suffering from menstrual cramps. The 18-year-old boy has a vagina, but never knew because there was a membrane covering it, said district medical officer Dr John Ogange of the […]
PALESTINIAN leader Yasser Arafat made an impassioned plea to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to agree to peace in the Middle East Thursday in a speech to a Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) conference in Pretoria. “I … would like to say to Mr Sharon: My commitment is for peace and stability for your children and my […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday ZIMBABWE’S main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai appeared in a Harare High Court Monday to answer charges of terrorism and inciting violence, and asked for the case to be referred to the Supreme Court. The charges against Tsvangirai, President Robert Mugabe’s only real contender in presidential elections due next year, arise […]
ZIMBABWES Minister of Industry and International Trade, who has publicly opposed raids by militant war veterans on businesses, has resigned. Nkosana Moyo handed in his resignation in a letter to President Robert Mugabe on Friday and then left for South Africa, press reports said. Moyo refused to comment on the reasons for his resignation, but […]
MILITANT war veterans have threatened Zimbabwe’s top private hospital for the second time in two weeks, forcing its managing director into hiding, hospital officials said Friday. The threats on managing director Malcolm Boyland came after the hospital last week made a Z$115 000-dollar settlement with the war veterans over a six-year-old labor dispute involving 30 […]