FOSTER Davis worked more than three decades on three continents in journalism, but his effect on his profession was felt not only in his hometown Charlotte, in the United States, but also in Johannesburg. Davis, 61, died on Sunday in Charlotte from cancer. He worked at The Observer from 1976 to 1992 and in that […]
THE United Nations Security Council has commended the efforts of leaders in the volatile Great Lakes region to restore peace in war-wrecked Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A high level 12-man delegation of the council currently touring Africa in a new resolve to end years of conflict in the region gave the […]
A TOTAL of 232 new cholera cases have been reported in KwaZulu-Natal since Wednesday afternoon. The provincial health department said no new deaths were reported. Most of the cases occurred in Eshowe/Nkandla (81), Ulundi (50), Lower Umfolozi districts (47) and New Castle/Nqutu (21). There are still 274 people being treated in provincial hospitals. A total […]
OVERCROWDING in Moroccan prisons is a “bomb”, the Moroccan Prison Observatory (OMP) said this week, reporting appalling conditions in many of the country’s jails. “The overcrowding is a bomb that forces us to think about alternative solutions to incarceration,” said Abderrahim Jamai, a director of the Casablanca-based independent watchdog organisation. “Integrating minors into social life […]
MILITANT pro-government war veterans have stoned and looted the home of opposition lawmaker Willias Madzimure, he said on Thursday. “Yesterday in parliament, I was phoned to be told the house was being stoned,” Madzimure, of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said. “By the time I arrived, they had been stoning the house without the police […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday LIZEKA Mda, a former Mail & Guardian reporter who wrote an opinion piece in 1998 critical of then-deputy president Thabo Mbeki may have lied to then presidential representative Parks Mankahlana about the author of the article, the Johannesburg High Court heard on Wednesday. Advocate George Bizos SC, representing Public Enterprises […]
A KENYAN minister has predicted the imminent collapse of the country’s motor industry due to the influx of cheap imports. Labour Minister, Joseph Ngutu made the predictions at the 13th International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) conference at Mbagathi near Nairobi on Thursday. He said the flooding of the local market with cheap cars, […]
ONE of at least 20 foreigners being held captive by a Mai Mai tribal militia in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has warned that the use of force to secure their release would endanger their lives, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. The New York-based advocacy group said in statement it had listened to a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Friday US Secretary of State Colin Powell has blamed President Robert Mugabe for much of Zimbabwe’s woes and called for tougher action to stem the crisis in that country. Powell told journalists in Pretoria he had discussed the Zimbabwe situation with South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma in bilateral talks […]
FORMER Zambian cabinet and deputy ministers recently dismissed by President Frederick Chiluba, on Thursday apologised to the nation for causing untold suffering to Zambians over the last 10 years under Chiluba’s leadership. Addressing a national development review forum in Lusaka on Thursday, the spokesperson of the group, former Labour minister Edith Nawakwi admitted that the […]