MALAWI President Bakili Muluzi’s press representative has resigned to head one of only two commercial radio stations in the central African country. Alaudin Osman said that he resigned after six years of uninterrupted service in Muluzi’s office to focus on the management and expansion of Capital FM. South Africa’s United Alliance Media (UAM) recently bought […]

A NORTHERN Province man who was allegedly forced to eat his own faeces has appeared with two other men on housebreaking and theft charges in the Potgietersrus Magistrate’s Court. David Maimela, 20, of Mahwereleng near Potgietersrus, appeared with Mosesenyane Sakie Nkanyane and David Mabaso, both 26. All three men have pleaded not guilty to breaking […]

A SWAZILAND chief allegedly caught growing a dagga field has got off scot-free because the kingdom has not completed the codification of Swazi law and custom. At the moment, traditional law allows chiefs to grow dagga in Swaziland for personal and medicinal use, but not for commercial use. Chief Cetjwako Mndzebele’s plantation was discovered by […]

ZAMBIAN President Fredrick Chiluba, in a desperate move to salvage his country’s depreciating currency, has appealed to investors and businessmen to immediately stop quoting prices in US dollars. President Chiluba said the rapid depreciation of the Zambian kwacha had resulted from high demand for the US currency, which is now closer to legal tender than […]

ZAMBIAS ruling party is to hold an extraordinary national congress to decide on whether to change the party’s constitution to allow President Frederick Chiluba to seek a third term, a top official said. Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) national secretary Michael Sata said members from across Zambia have petitioned for a special convention to decide […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Maputo | Thursday THE long-awaited fifth and final tollgate on the R2bn N4 highway between South Africa’s industrial heartland of Gauteng and the Mozambican port of Maputo has opened, in spite of a strike by construction workers and widespread community resistance to the toll road. The protests had already delayed the opening of […]

SOUTH Africa’s transport ministry has closed the Skukuza airport in the Kruger National Park because it failed to comply with safety regulations. The ministry said the airport’s licence had not been renewed when it expired on October 31, but that it continued operations under an exemption granted to allow it to improve its rescue and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday SAFETY and Security Minister Steve Tshwete has agreed to commission independent research into the motives behind South Africas ongoing farm attacks, which killed at least 119 people last year. Agri SA president Japie Grobler said such an inquiry could help find ways to curb the ongoing onslaught on the farming […]

NIGERIAS human rights commission has ordered the arrest of the head of the country’s prison service and three police officers. Commission Chairman Justice Chukwudifu Oputa ordered the four men to be arrested for failing to answer a summons to appear. Those summonsed are Comptroller-General of Prisons Mohammed Jarmah, Assistant Commissioner of Police Kehinde Oyenuga and […]