OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Harcourt | Tuesday THE families of four slain leaders of the southern Nigerian Ogoni people have accused the late human rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, of instigating their murder seven years ago. Saro-Wiwa and eight others were executed on November 10, 1995, after being found guilty by a special tribunal of murdering the […]

SENEGAL’S President Abdoulaye Wade has urged Africans to take a measured response to fighting racism outside their continent, and focus more effort on resolving ethnic problems at home. “A Burkinabe in Ivory Coast is being treated in a way that a black person would not be treated in Europe,” Wade told participants at the opening […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday THE Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) has declared a dispute with Telkom in its latest salvo over what it calls ruthless job cuts and other preparations for the listing of the state-controlled communications giant, and is to embark on protest action. CWU announced its new step a day after Telkom and […]

ZIMBABWES 140_000 civil servants plan to go on strike on Wednesday in protest at the government’s proposed 15% cost of living adjustment. Public workers believe the government has failed to negotiate in good faith on the amount of the raise and say the government has insisted on sticking to its 11bn Zimbabwe dollar ($190m) budget […]

A CASH-strapped Egyptian cement worker has been sentenced to death for murdering and robbing a man to buy an engagement ring for his beloved. Wael Salam, 27, was found guilty of luring co-worker Haitham Omar on a day off to their cement factory in the southern town of Luxor, where he hit him on the […]

PRIVATE companies have already invested R122m in six sites that were commercialised in the Kruger National Park three months ago. The sites will be developed as luxury lodges and are expected to generate a combined total of about R2,4m in the first year and R22m after 20 years. 630 permanent jobs, excluding construction work, will […]

REPRESENTATIVES from Cameroon, Malawi, Niger and Guinea-Bissau will this week renegotiate their debt with the Paris Club group of creditor countries. All four African countries are on the list of Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) identified by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank for special consideration in debt relief if they demonstrate […]

A JUDICIAL panel of inquiry into the finances and management of Nigeria’s corruption ridden state-run telecommunications company NITEL has begun its public sitting. The panel, headed by former high court judge Daniel Ishola-Adeniyi, will look into the finances and management of NITEL and its sister company, M-TEL, in the past years. NITEL is widely considered […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday OPPOSITION parties have slammed African National Congress (ANC) members of Parliament’s public accounts committee for backtracking on their call for the involvement of the Heath unit to help investigate the governments R43bn arms deal. The Democratic Alliance (DA) and African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) charged the ANC members with […]