ZIMBABWEAN Chief Justice Anthony Gubbay has publicly rebuked Robert Mugabe’s government for “harassment” of Zimbabwe’s judiciary, saying the state had a basic misunderstanding of the rule of law. In his customary remarks at the opening of the legal year – his only speech outside the confines of legal cases put before him – the 69-year-old […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday STATE armaments agency Armscor says American company Quantum International Services, which is reportedly planning to sue for R2bn in damages after a failed deal, has no case – and allegations of corruption against top officials are just a smokescreen. Speaking at a news conference in Pretoria, Armscor chief executive […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday STATE armaments agency Armscor says it will answer allegations of corruption against top officials following reports that it faces a R2bn lawsuit arising from a failed deal to purchase surplus SA Air Force aircraft. Armscors reaction follows weekend reports that military hardware company Quantam International is planning to sue […]
A COURT in Malawi has finished hearing a case of alleged corruption by sacked government minister Brown Mpinganjira and is expected to hand down its ruling on January 16. Mpinganjira, who says the case against him is based on trumped-up charges, was charged on four counts of corruption amounting to $2_000 when he was education […]
CAR crashes on South Africa?s roads killed 171 fewer people in December 2000 than in the previous year – but the country remains one of the world’s most dangerous places to drive, according to government statistics released this week. The Christmas season death toll was down 17.8% – to 785 people killed in 565 fatal […]
OWN CORRESPONDENTS, Johannesburg | Tuesday RELIGIOUS groups in Nigeria and Zambia have blasted the spread of anti-Aids messages on the continent, saying a seminar on HIV/Aids and a safe sex campaign would encourage promiscuity and moral decay. The council of Islamic clergy in Kano in northern Nigeria urged Muslims to boycott a US-backed seminar on […]
A CARGO plane crashed on take-off in Angola’s diamond-rich Lunda North province, killing a man who had stopped to relieve himself close to the runway, the country’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said. All seven people on board the plane, registered to Gemini Air Cargo, escaped unhurt. – Reuters
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTHERN Africas cholera epidemic, which has already killed at least 110 people and infected 15 000 others in Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland, has spread to Zambia and southern Malawi. Blantyre City Medical Services Director Lycester Bandawe said 40 residents were admitted to hospital with severe diarrhoea, and recent flooding […]
FRANCE Telecom has become the majority shareholder in Egypt’s largest mobile telephone company, MobiNil, after buying $252m in shares from the US firm Motorola, the French firm said. Following the transaction, France Telecom increased its stake in MobiNil, or the Egyptian Company for Mobile Services, from 46.1% to 71.25%. Cairo-based Orascom Telecom, which has bought […]
INTERNATIONAL media watchdog Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF) is sending a delegation to Algeria next week to investigate the case of five missing journalists and launch a media awareness campaign to try to uncover their fate. RSF says it is practically certain that two were kidnapped by Islamic terrorists and three by the state between […]