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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Cape Town | Tuesday A majority of black South Africans surveyed believe that whites are racist and untrustworthy and find it hard to imagine ever being friends with them, according to findings of a poll released on Monday. The survey, carried out for the Cape Town-based Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR), also found that […]
Jeremy Lovell, Windsor | Wednesday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki, ending the first day of his first state visit to Britain on Tuesday, thanked his royal hosts and the country for support since the end of apartheid seven years ago. “We know it as a matter of fact that Her Majesty, the rest of the […]
NIGERIAS President Olusegun Obasanjo has sacked four ministers including his minister for communications, officials said on Tuesday. The four ministers to be fired were Communications Minister Mohammed Arzika, Water Resources Minister Mohammed Arzika, and the deputy ministers for the capital territory and for power and steel, officials said in a statement. Four senior advisers, including […]