THE South African Human Rights Commission on Monday launched a 12-month survey into the human rights situation in farming communities. ”Reports of farmer brutality towards their employees, shocking employment and living conditions, massive child labour and the continued murders of farmers have dominated the country’s agriculture and created perceptions of a deeply troubled sector,” commission […]
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FORTUNE hunters in South Africa will be able to dig for gold coins next month on a farm where about 16,000 coins have been found and thousands more could be left, a local official said on Tuesday. “The dig will be a proper gold rush on a first come, first serve basis, no claims will […]
PRICES of fuel in Zimbabwe shot up on Tuesday by between 51% and 82%, state television reported. Petrol went up by 74% to $1.38 while diesel rose over 67% to $1.20, with aviation fuel seeing the biggest rise, up over 82% to $1.03. The state-owned National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (NOZCIM) blamed the increases on […]
WAR veterans occupying an Indonesian-owned ostrich farm in western Zimbabwe cut off water supplies there at the weekend, depriving the birds of drinking water, state news agency ZIANA reported on Sunday. A representative for Dollar Bubi, a multi-million dollar project rearing some 2_600 birds, told ZIANA that the continued occupation and disruption at the farm […]
SWAZILAND is considering passing a tough pollution control bill that will impose fines of between R50_000 and R250_000 or jail sentences of one to five years. The proposed Environment Management Bill has already been published in the Government Gazette and is expected to be passed in Parliament later this month. “Manufacturers are being warned not […]
SWAZILANDS rural health centres got a shot in the arm on Tuesday when a team of US doctors and nurses promised to provide them with at least 1,000 computers. Dr Alex Bowier, the leader of a 36-member team, said the donation was to enable rural centres in the tiny kingdom to have up-to-date data on […]
A SOUTH African millionaire was in line to follow in the footsteps of US businessman Dennis Tito and become the second paying space tourist, a Cape newspaper has reported. The Argus newspaper quoted the Russian press as saying a South African citizen had passed a medical selection test and had received access to the Gagarin […]
THE 14-member Southern African Development Community (SADC) is seeking concrete ways to cut off fuel supplies to Angolan rebels, SADC members attending an annual meeting in Kinshasa announced at the weekend. Despite a UN embargo against rebels, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) continues to profit from a lucrative diamond trade […]
A DUTCH couple who spent three years working alongside exiled African National Congress cadres living in a Tanzanian camp have created a website which attempts to reconstruct the camp. The website is intended to become a database of personal histories, photographs, maps, plans and other information about the camp. Bing Mller and Gea Mulder were […]