THE prime minister of Mozambique on Monday vowed that the suspected murder of a top banker at the weekend would not sway the government from re-privatising the country’s commercial banks. “The privatisation will go ahead as planned in line with our government’s policy,” Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi told state radio. The body of Antonio Siba […]
THE Botswana government will cut services to members of the nomadic Basarwa tribe living in the southern African country’s largest game reserve because it has become too expensive to maintain them, a minister said on Wednesday. Assistant Local Government Minister Gladys Kokorwe said services to the nomads, living in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, would […]
Johannesburg | Thursday THE strike in the automobile manufacturers industry was set to enter its tenth day on Thursday as late night negotiations between employers and Numsa reached a dead end on Wednesday. Automobile Manufacturers Employers Organisation (Ameo) representative Dave Kirby said that there were still two key areas which the parties could not agree […]
Unicef chief Carol Bellamy said on Wednesday that rebel groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo had agreed to work with her organisation towards the demobilisation of child soldiers and to stop recruiting children. “The rebel forces too, want to work with us in the program to integrate these children back to their normal […]
More than 40 Northern Province farmers have offered to sell 16 852 hectares of land to the provincial department of land affairs as part of a project to transfer 30% of agricultural land to blacks within 15 years. Provincial land affairs representative Phumudzo Makharemedza said on Wednesday that 43 farmers had responded to government advertisements […]
Luanda | Thursday FIVE days after an ambush that left 252 people dead, Angola’s churches on Wednesday ordered a month-long religious fast in the name of peace, and called on rebels to stop fighting and negotiate with the government. The Committee of Churches for Peace in Angola, a group which includes both Christian and non-Christian […]
PRODUCTION at South Africa’s second largest steel producer, Highveld Steel and Vanadium, in Witbank is expected to return to normal on Wednesday after a strike ended on Tuesday. This follows the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and the MWU-Solidarity accepting the company’s revised wage offer of an effective 9,46%. Numsa accepted the offer […]
Johannesburg | Thursday A SECOND competitor for Telkom might only enter the market in 2005, and not next year as earlier announced, Telecommunications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said on Wednesday. The licensing of a second competitor would depend on the outcome of a feasibility study, she told reporters in Pretoria. A first competitor is to be […]
Pretoria | Wednesday THE Pretoria High Court sentenced South African Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete to 30 days in prison on Tuesday for contempt of a court order, but the minister will not be arrested. Judge Hekkie Daniels ordered the minister to spend the time in prison for his ”contemptuous conduct” for failing to […]
Blantyre | Tuesday THE Zimbabwean government accused Britain on Monday of meddling in its internal affairs by financing the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party. The statement, accusing Britain of wanting to recolonise Zimbabwe, was issued in the southern Malawian commercial city of Blantyre, where the 14-member Southern African Development Community (SADC) is […]