THE African National Congress has backtracked and admitted that Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete damaged South Africa’s image by naming three prominent party members as allegedly plotting to overthrow President Thabo Mbeki. Tshwete is to be carpeted before Parliament?s safety and security committee today, where he is expected to justify why he ordered a […]
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POVERTY elimination strategies should treat women not only as the worst victims of poverty, but also as potential agents of change, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Monday. In a speech prepared for delivery at the opening of an expert group meeting on water-related environmental education in African cities, Asmal said there was little recognition […]
TWO Congolese politicians were found shot to death on Monday near the southern city of Lubumbashi in what authorities suspect was a politically motivated killing. The bodies of Kienge Lukonde and Kioni Kyanukenbe were discovered early Monday morning in a car by the side of the road, said Kazadi Dikanga, an official in Katanga Province. […]
TWO Englishmen began a 64_000 km journey on foot across four continents, expected to take seven years, from Cape Point in South Africa on Tuesday, local television reported. The adventurers, James Tremayne and David Thompson, intend to follow the trail by the humans who inhabited southern Africa 120_000 years ago and migrated across the world. […]
NASDAQ-listed Quokka Sports, the Australian company that provided the first Internet sports coverage that beat television, has gone bankrupt after burning through A$100m in seed money. News reports quoted founder Alan Ramadan as blaming the fall of the five-year-old San Francisco-based company on a “dramatic downturn in advertising” and the lack of high-speed cable networks […]
DICKSON JERE, Lusaka | Wednesday THE political rift widened within Zambia’s ruling party on Tuesday after a court stopped President Frederick Chiluba ousting over 200 rivals to his unconstitutional re-election bid. Chiluba’s Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) was to vote on Tuesday on a resolution to kick out more than 200 members who had boycotted […]
PRECARIOUS calm returned to Algeria on Monday after a weekend of further rioting by enraged members of the nation’s Berber ethnic minority that brought the estimated death toll to about 80. Young Berbers went on the rampage in the northeastern Kabylie region after a teenager was shot dead in a police cell on April 18. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Gaborone | Wednesday THE head of Botswana television news and current affairs Chris Bishop has resigned over government attempts to control broadcasts, Bishop told the South African news agency Sapa. “The journalists at BTV and myself have often been harassed by officialdom. It has rendered the running of TV news impractical,” Bishop said, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Abidjan | Wednesday AMNESTY International called on Liberia and the international community on Tuesday to halt what it said were abductions, gang rape, torture and murder of unarmed innocents in the west African state. The human rights group claimed an anti-terrorist unit had raped a pregnant woman and stamped on her stomach, causing […]