IN a bid to make the tourism sector its biggest foreign exchange earner by 2025, Tanzania has waived the obligatory yellow fever vaccination certificate. Yellow fever is a mosquito-borne tropical disease characterised by fever, jaundice and internal bleeding and is most prevalent in central Africa as well as in central America and northern South America. […]
POLICE in Tanzania’s northwestern region of Kagera are holding two refugees from Burundi and Rwanda on suspicion that they killed a Roman Catholic priest last week. Kagera Regional Police Commander Ignas Mbinga named the suspects as Twagilemungu Ibrahim, 30, a Burundian and Yusuph Kazungu, 23, of Rwanda. Mbinga said that the suspects allegedly killed Father […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday FORMER US president Bill Clinton will introduce to South Africa the concept of town hall meetings at a two-day conference on civil society this week – but the conference is being boycotted by trade unions and non-governmental organisations. The boycotters claim the conference will not represent grass-roots views. Clinton will […]
LUCIA MUTIKANI, Johannesburg | Tuesday THE rand fell to a new low of 8.20/dollar on Monday as investors took fright over speculation a bid for diamond giant De Beers, set to trigger large capital inflows, may fail. Fears are mounting that Anglo American’s joint bid for De Beers, expected to result in capital inflows of […]
MINING, IT and financial stocks hoisted the South African bourse to a firmer close on a stronger gold price and US markets and a weaker currency, which benefits resources and rand-hedge stocks, dealers said. Anglo American proved a winner, lifting 2.72% or R13.20 to end on Thursday at R499. Dealers said Anglo, which is also […]
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A ridge of cowrie shells braided into her hair, the Amazon reaches out and smashes a rebellious slave to the ground with a brutal blow. The she-warrior is just one member of an elite army running slave raids for King Adanggaman, a powerful African monarch who seizes villagers to sell to European slave traders.
SOUTH African soldiers leaving for the Democratic Republic of the Congo for peacekeeping duties should do their country proud, Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota and SA National Defence Force chief General Siphiwe Nyanda said on Friday. “You leave as heroes. Come back as even bigger heroes,” Lekota said as they bade farewell to 90 SANDF members […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Monday AN international panel of high-ranking lawyers returning from a fact-finding visit to Zimbabwe reported on Monday that democracy and the rule of law there were “in the gravest peril.” In the report written for the International Bar Association (IBA) they said the government of President Robert Mugabe was deeply implicated […]