SOUTH Africa’s most powerful trade union federation on Tuesday warned that they were planning a nationwide strike against privatisation, to take place in the next four months. Speaking at a May Day rally in Durban, Zwelinzima Vavi, general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), told workers that Cosatu intended to protest […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday MILITANT war veterans threatened on Tuesday to step up their attacks on businesses in Zimbabwe, during their alternative May Day rally held after a main rally organised by labour unions. ”We want everyone to bring their problems to us for settling,” said firebrand war vet leader Chenjerai Hunzvi, in a […]
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TWO South Africans on trial for murder in Botswana were not legally extradited to that country, says a justice ministry spokesman. Paul Setsetse said the two men were arrested by South African and Botswana police in the North West province a few weeks ago. However, it subsequently emerged that they had not been legally extradited […]
THE circumstances of many women who had killed their husbands or partners had not been adequately taken into account by the country’s courts, says the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation?s Lisa Vetten. Vetten, who is calling for a presidential pardon for women in abusive relationships who are convicted of murdering their husbands, […]
AT least seven people died and 51 were injured on Sunday when rival fans invaded the pitch during a football match in Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. An eyewitness said victims were trampled to death and asphyxiated when panic broke out. Police intervened using teargas after rival fans began exchanging insults and hurling […]
THE coalition backing Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade, winner of a historic presidential election in March 2000, seems to have swept early legislative elections. According to first results issued during the night the Sopi (Change) coalition built around Wade’s liberal Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) was well ahead of its adversaries, political analysts said. With nearly 50 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday IN the years since the landmark Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the world has forged ahead to feed, clothe and house its people – at a steep environmental expense, organisers of the next summit said. A decade after Rio, world leaders and environmentalists will gather again in Johannesburg in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday THE Congress of South African Students (Cosas) is set to clash with the government after it vowed to prevent pupils from going to Gautengs private and former Model C schools, The Star newspaper reports. The student body was also said to have threatened to wreck classrooms at the schools. The […]
SOME 330 skeletons, including those of women and children, have been recovered from a mass grave – dating from Algeria’s bloody independence war 40 years ago – at the village of Cheria, some 430km east of the capital Algiers. The grave could contain as many as 600 bodies, said to have been shot by special […]