FOUR Tunisian prison warders have each received four-year jail sentences for torturing a prisoner so severely he eventually had to have both legs amputated as a result of injuries, court sources said on Saturday. Former boxer Ali Mansouri, in jail for a criminal offence, was beaten and chained up in his cell in March to […]
A TEAM sent by the United Nations said on Thursday it had begun looking into whether Liberia was respecting UN demands to cut off support for Sierra Leonean rebels. The United Nations imposed sanctions on the West African country in May after deciding Liberia had not done enough to implement a UN resolution demanding an […]
Johannesburg | Monday SOUTH African state-owned defence group Denel reported its first profit since 1997 on Monday, thanks to internal restructuring and an improved order book. Denel posted an attributable profit of R24,1-million for the year to end-March 2001, compared to a loss of R206-million in the 2000 financial year. Sales in the 2001 year […]
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Cape Town | Monday A CAPE Town church that declared last week that only white Afrikaans worshipers were welcome did not object to a visit by mixed-race officials of South Africa’s ruling party on Sunday, a party official said. Charmaine Manuel, her 13-year-old son Nigel and his grandmother were asked to leave the church by […]
WEARING traditional cloth and carrying a Nigerian flag, flamboyant British tycoon Richard Branson flew into Nigeria on Thursday to publicise the launching of Virgin Atlantic services on the lucrative Lagos-London route. Arriving aboard one of his own Boeing 747s, the Virgin boss dropped in first on the Nigerian capital, Abuja, and met President Olusegun Obasanjo, […]
THE cash-strapped Mpumalanga Parks Board is gearing for greater commercialisation as part of its restructuring process. The organisation unveiled its new senior management organogram on Wednesday, which, for the first time, included a commercialisation component. Executive manager of the MPB, Leonard Smit, said on Thursday that the commercial division was much-needed and would be instituted […]
ZIMBABWES government admitted on Thursday for the first time that the country faces food shortages later this year and may need international aid. That there will be shortages in national production is confirmed. The uncertainty is the magnitude,” Finance Minister Simba Makoni told journalists on Thursday. Previously government officials have adamantly denied reports — some […]
ARMED soldiers and policemen are said to have severely beaten up people in Harares Warren Park, Kuwadzana and Dzivaresekwa suburbs on Thursday, accusing them of taking part in the two-day stayaway this week. At around 3am yesterday, the soldiers and policemen entered homes and bars in Dzivaresekwa and attacked occupants for allegedly barricading roads. In […]
THE State-controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) stands to lose $68-million in advertising revenue if the Minister of State for Information Jonathan Moyo goes ahead with his plans to ban financial institutions from sponsoring programmes at the debt-ridden public broad-caster. Former ZBC chief executive Luke Munyawarara, shocked by the move, in mid-June wrote a letter to […]