OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Saturday THE Zambezi river has risen to worrying levels, prompting fears of severe flooding in central Mozambique, an official said Friday, about a year after devastating floods in the southern African country. “We are now getting worried with the latest developments in the Zambezi river”, said Joao Zamissa, head of planning […]

THEY may be jobless and poor, but a group of Mpumalanga women are about to build spacious low-cost homes after creating a kitty to boost their State housing grant. The 180 members of the Vukuzimele Community Project near Nelspruit will build homes of 56 square metres – 20 square metres bigger than a standard low-cost […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday FIVE of the nine provinces in South Africa have reported cholera cases since the start of the initial outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal five months ago, the national Department of Health said on Friday. The outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal has resulted in 64 deaths and nearly 18 000 people have been infected by […]

AN Egyptian labourer had a heart attack and died Saturday from the excitement of laying his hands on a windfall of money he had been awaiting for around a decade, police in southern Egypt said. Ramadan Abu Seif, 45, had just picked up a cheque for 9_000 Egyptian pounds (around $2_400 dollars) in compensation from […]

NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo has ordered the removal of judges indicted by a investigation panel as a part of measures to clean up the country’s judiciary. The panel was set up by late dictator General Sani Abacha in 1993 to probe the judiciary and submitted its report a year later, recommending that some judges be […]

BENIN’S governmental communications authority has warned journalists about a host of things they will not be allowed to publish during campaigning for a March presidential poll in the west African country. “The role of a journalist at such sensitive times is not to be a harbinger of bad tidings and even less to play the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday THE man in charge of flight safety in South Africa has been found guilty of breaking the very laws he was hired to enforce, the Sunday Times reports. Two independent investigations have found that the head of the Civil Aviation Authority, Trevor Abrahams, flew an aircraft without the proper qualifications, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | A SOUTH African actor on Saturday brought a controversial consignment of generic HIV and Aids drugs into the country, which will be used by the Cape-based Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). Morne Visser, was met by a an emotional group of activists at the Cape Town International Airport as he brought […]

SOUTH Africa’s high-tech mobile health train, the Transnet-Phelophepa Health Care Train, begins its annual 36-week delivery of health services to remote rural areas across the country next week. The train provides services in basic health care, health education, dental and eye care as well as psychological counselling. Spectacles and sophisticated eye tests cost only R30 […]

NIGERIA’S President Olusegun Obasanjo should press visiting Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to write off Nigeria’s debts and urge investment, a leading newspaper said. “Rather than the fragmented grants given to Nigeria from time to time, Nigeria’s debts should be written off in order to give Nigeria an economic breathing space,” the newspaper This Day […]