SOUTH African IT group Datatec said on Tuesday it had upped its stake in US unit Westcon to 90,2%, to allow for management changes ahead of Westcon’s planned listing in the United States. Datatec said it paid $22-million, funded from internal cash resources, to the original founders of Westcon and some other shareholders for the […]

MPUMALANGA Health MEC Sibongile Manana has ordered a full investigation into the province’s second largest hospital following the crippling of at least three children during botched operations. Outraged parents have accused Themba Hospital near White River of attempting to cover-up negligence and malpractice by both doctors and nurses during routine operations in 1996. Manana said […]

Violence flared in a Zambian parliamentary by-election involving the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) and the opposition, police representative Lemmy Kajoba said on Sunday. The clashes began late Friday night and continued Saturday, during campaign meetings for the by-election to be held on Tuesday in a densely populated constituency in the capital Lusaka. “Several […]

THE Rwandan army has captured the commander of the extremist rebel Hutus in northwest Rwanda. “Colonel Bemera surrendered peacefully with five of his men while he was encircled by our forces at Mukingo,” said army representative, Jean-Bosco Kazura. Since May 20, fighters from the Interahamwe, an extremist Hutu militia who carried out the 1994 genocide […]

Harare | Tuesday A WHITE Zimbabwean farmer has been arrested in connection with the death of a black man who received land on the farmer’s property under a controversial government resettlement scheme, police said on Monday. Philip Bezuidenhout allegedly ran over Phibian Mapenzauswa on Saturday and dragged him under his truck for 20 metres at […]

THE South African Reserve Bank said on Monday it had appointed a former judge to investigate troubled Regal Treasury Private Bank Ltd. The central bank said it had appointed Advocate John Myburgh as the commissioner to conduct the investigation into Regal, which was put under curatorship in June. That followed large withdrawals by depositors, which […]

LIBYAN leader Muammer Gaddafi was on Sunday bestowed the highest honour of the Toro tribe of western Uganda when he attended the sixth anniversary of the coronation of a nine-year-old tribal monarch. Gaddafi, who arrived in Uganda on Saturday, was made Omujwarakondo (defender) of the Toro kingdom during celebrations to mark the sixth anniversary of […]

ZIMBABWES tobacco farmers will from next week start to benefit from a 20% foreign currency retention scheme which is expected to allocate them US$80-million from this year’s tobacco crop. Tobacco remains a major foreign currency earner for the cash-strapped government. Now, of the forex that is earned through sales, 20% will be reserved for growers […]

AN Egyptian man went on trial in Cairo on Sunday on charges he had one more than the Muslim legal limit of four wives and that he had entered brief marriages with 29 underage girls. The trial was adjourned until August 18 for Sayed Ragab al-Sawarki, 51, a self-professed devout Muslim who was arrested in […]