A TEENAGED boy who checked into a Kenyan hospital with stomach pains last week collapsed when doctors told him he was actually a woman and was suffering from menstrual cramps. The 18-year-old boy has a vagina, but never knew because there was a membrane covering it, said district medical officer Dr John Ogange of the […]

PALESTINIAN leader Yasser Arafat made an impassioned plea to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to agree to peace in the Middle East Thursday in a speech to a Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) conference in Pretoria. “I … would like to say to Mr Sharon: My commitment is for peace and stability for your children and my […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday ZIMBABWE’S main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai appeared in a Harare High Court Monday to answer charges of terrorism and inciting violence, and asked for the case to be referred to the Supreme Court. The charges against Tsvangirai, President Robert Mugabe’s only real contender in presidential elections due next year, arise […]

ZIMBABWES Minister of Industry and International Trade, who has publicly opposed raids by militant war veterans on businesses, has resigned. Nkosana Moyo handed in his resignation in a letter to President Robert Mugabe on Friday and then left for South Africa, press reports said. Moyo refused to comment on the reasons for his resignation, but […]

MILITANT war veterans have threatened Zimbabwe’s top private hospital for the second time in two weeks, forcing its managing director into hiding, hospital officials said Friday. The threats on managing director Malcolm Boyland came after the hospital last week made a Z$115 000-dollar settlement with the war veterans over a six-year-old labor dispute involving 30 […]

ZAMBIAN parliamentarians have filed a motion to impeach President Frederick Chiluba in the wake of his unconstitutional bid to run for a third term, a parliamentary statement said on Friday. The impeachment notice was filed by former local government minister Ackson Sejani, who was recently sacked from Chiluba’s cabinet for opposing the president’s bid. So […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday SOUTH Africa’s technology sector leapt more than three percent at the start of trade on Monday as the market played catch up with a positive Friday Wall Street, traders said. Didata, the networking and IT company which has a 78% weighting in the IT sector, moved up 2.96% to R38.20. […]

THERE was high demand at this week’s East African tea auction, with brisk trading on the floor for quality leafs that were on offer, Africa Tea Brokers (ATB) said in a market report released on Wednesday. According to the ATB report, most catalogues recorded an increase of an average of $1.5 on best lots due […]

A NEW and affordable savings plan, aimed at the lower end of the market, has been launched by Sanlam. The Halala savings plan enables one to save as little as R50 a month over a minimum period of 10 years. Sanlam brand manager for the emerging market, Jimmy Makgato, on Wednesday said that there were […]

RECOVERY teams on Sunday pulled eight more bodies, two of them babies, out of the hull of a lake ferry that capsized and sank at Goma, DRC, bringing the death toll from the tragedy to 38. The bloated bodies, which had been under water for more than three days, were taken from the boat through […]