ANNA BORZELLO, Kampala | Tuesday A MULTINATIONAL African insurance agency, covering risks ranging from war to repossession and aimed at boosting direct investment in the continent, was born here Monday with seven countries coming on board. “The ATI is a scheme that is telling investors, please go ahead and trade, and if a coup d’etat […]
Harare | Tuesday ZIMBABWE’S struggling economy has suffered another blow with an outbreak of foot-and-mouth cattle disease, forcing a halt in beef exports, newspaper reports said on Tuesday. The outbreak was detected August 16 outside Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo, according to the privately owned Daily News. Some 800 of 7 680 cattle awaiting slaughter […]
PRIMARY school children in South Africa are being offered a class project that requires them to plan and “execute” an armed robbery, the Sunday Argus newspaper reported. The newspaper said the teaching module, on offer to schools throughout South Africa, was the brainchild of SkoolCor, a Cape Town publishing company. The teaching aid, titled “Guilty […]
A BRITISH former aid worker accused of sexually abusing young orphans in his charge appeared in an Ethiopian court on Monday, some six years after fleeing the country and changing his name. The crimes of “sexual child abuse” allegedly committed by David Christie (59), who has since changed his name to Allen, took place in […]
Bloemfontein | Tuesday A WHITE South African man accused of killing a black employee by dragging him behind a pickup truck pleaded not guilty in the Bloemfontein High Court Monday, saying he could not remember the incident. “When my wife visited me in prison the next morning, I told her: ‘They say I killed someone, […]
STEVEN SWINDELLS, Pretoria | Tuesday A PRETORIA high court on Monday postponed until November the trial of six white policemen alleged to have set dogs on black job-seekers, an incident that shocked South Africa and deepened racial mistrust between blacks and whites. The trial was delayed until November 19 after defence lawyers requested that two […]
DONALD Woods will be laid to rest in the soil of the land of his birth. His eldest son, Dillon, said from London on Monday that a memorial service for his father would be held at St Martins-in-the-Fields Church opposite Trafalgar Square, London, next Tuesday, followed by a reception at the South African High Commission […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday XENOPHOBIA is on the rise in South Africa seven years after the end of apartheid, as not only black Africans but also economic migrants take the brunt of a new wave of violence, a survey released this week showed. The report, based on interviews with more than 100 Africans living in the […]
SOUTH Africa’s 2000/01 commercial maize crop is seen at 7,225-million tons versus last year’s 10,1-million tons, the national Crop Estimates Committee said on Monday in its final summer crop data. South African maize supplies will be stretched to the limits, some market players say, because the country is seen as a key supplier to the […]
A PLAN to sue the government over drugs that can prevent HIV transmission from mother to child will be announced by the HIV/Aids lobby group Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) on Tuesday. TAC last year threatened to sue over the government’s refusal to make the anti-retroviral Nevirapine available in state facilities, but withdrew when the Department […]