OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday CAPE Towns Anglican Church Archbishop, the Reverend Njongonkulu Ndungane, has spoken out against a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) plan to get big business to contribute to a fund for victims of apartheid, saying it was governments responsibility. Ndungane was reacting to a statement by TRC compensation and rehabilitation […]

TWO pet chimpanzees from the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo were transferred to the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia on Sunday because of fears that their owner would not be able to care for them. Brenda Santon from Friends of the Chimpanzee in South Africa said Sinki, a seven-year-old male, and Kambo, a five-year-old female, […]

CAPE Verde’s opposition African Independence Party (PAICV) claimed victory at Sunday’s general election, but the early official results showed a race too close to call after a day marked mainly by chaos. “According to the data we have received, we are already certain of victory,” PAICV campaign director Adao Richa said. With the vote count […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday A REPORT warning that Aids would become the leading cause of death among teachers this year was deeply flawed and based on questionable assumptions, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Sunday. Speaking on the SABC programme Newsmaker, Asmal said the report was not a department document, and that he rejected […]

OWN CORRESPONDENTS, Johannesburg | Monday THE ANC has lashed out at Heath Special Investigating Unit head Willem Heath for “being in cahoots with opposition parties”, and says it will oppose his appointment to probe the states R43bn arms deal. While there will be more clarity today regarding Heath’s involvement or not in the arms deal […]

SWEDISH telecoms equipment maker Ericsson plans to spend millions of rand to develop new technologies for African clients after setting up a regional service hub in South Africa. Ericsson South Africa Managing Director Christer Hohenthal said the move would have a ”significant impact” on the level of mobile networks being rolled out across the continent, […]

THE World Bank has blocked a loan of some $75m to Senegal intended to help with the restructuring of its energy sector, Senegalese Energy Minister Abdoulaye Bathily said. The Senegalese government in September terminated an agreement under which a Franco-Canadian consortium had taken over the management of the state electricity company, SENELEC, along with a […]

POLICE in Zimbabwe shot dead a six-year-old boy asleep in the back seat of his father’s car while they drove home on the outskirts of the capital, local media reported on Saturday. The shooting in Chitungwiza town, which took place earlier this week, was the second time Zimbabwe police allegedly killed innocent people in less […]

THE South African driver of a tour bus in which 26 British nationals and a local tour guide were killed in an accident in Mpumalanga in 1999 will be tried in the Lydenburg Regional Court on a charge of culpable homicide and an alternative charge of reckless driving between April 2 and 6. Phillip Dube, […]