DUMISANE LUBISI & ZENZELE KUHLASE, Burgersfort | Wednesday THE Mpumalanga education department is yet to decide whether to intervene at EJ Singwane High School at Msogwaba near Nelspruit where pupils torched a police car and opened fire on police officers on Friday. The pupils were trying to prevent a classmate from being arrested for brandishing […]
SA President Thabo Mbeki told parliament on Wednesday that US Secretary of State Colin Powell had endorsed his handling of the crisis in Zimbabwe. “The secretary of state said to me that they themselves had been engaging the Zimbabwean government in a similar way as we had been, and would want to sustain the interaction, […]
Kinshasa | Thursday RWANDAN reinforcements have entered the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in defiance of international accords to pursue “programmed genocide,” the DRC government claimed Thursday. It called on the United Nations to speed deployment of its military observer mission in the east of the country dominated by anti-government rebels backed by Rwanda and […]
SENEGALS president Abdoulaye Wade has unveiled plans for the Senegalese telecommunications agency, that is expected to “develop new information and communication technologies” nationwide. Launching the “Internet Caravan,” on Tuesday in Dakar, he described new technology as “the domain of democracy as it enables everybody to move at the same speed.” The Internet Caravan, is to […]
FRENCH Prime Minister Lionel Jospin arrived in Cape Town early on Thursday for a two-day official visit to South Africa that will see him hold talks with President Thabo Mbeki and his predecessor Nelson Mandela. Jospin was due to meet Mbeki in Cape Town on Thursday before addressing parliament and flying to the former prison […]
CONSERVATION officials from around the world have gathered in Cape Town for a workshop to focus on the protection and management of African shark populations. Sponsored by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), the three-day IFAW Shark Conservation Workshop 2001 gathered over 50 delegates from more than 18 countries including Eritrea, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, […]
AFRICAN linguists from Gambia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, America and Europe, have agreed to create an Academy of African Languages in Mali. Following a three-day meeting on the project, participants said on Monday that the objective of the institution is to promote African languages. – Pana
Local business leaders want to build a gigantic statue of Nelson Mandela – bigger even than the Statue of Liberty .
THERE are some 93 women including 13 teenagers among 3_600 prisoners currently detained in the Abidjan Prison, the ruling Ivorian Popular Front-run newspaper, Notre Voie reported on Wednesday. It said the 93 female detainees are divided into two groups because of the lack of sufficient cells. The 93 women are serving sentences for ”stealing, assault […]
BRITISH actress Emma Thompson is to take a year off work to travel round Africa with her family to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS. The two-time Oscar winner will be going to Africa on behalf of the charity Action Aid, the Daily Mail reported on Wednesday. ”We have always wanted to do some voluntary […]