MOZAMBIQUES top tourism official on Monday accused several South African tourist companies of racism, and said the government had moved to discipline them. “We are fighting against all kinds of racism because our tourist resources are public and not private assets,” said national tourism director Antonio Saia. Allegations of racist practices by some South African […]

FOURTEEN people died and two were critically injured in a head-on collision between a minibus-taxi and a car on Sunday. Policeman Bala Naidoo said the taxi driver, who was among the dead, apparently crossed the road into the face of oncoming traffic around 5:00 am on the road between KwaDukuza and Zinkwazi in KwaZulu-Natal. KwaZulu-Natal […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday A HANDLER has been killed by an elephant cow which was being used on a film set in Broederstroom outside Johannesburg. A co-owner of Glen Africa farm outside Broederstroom, Vicky Brooker, said Fiso Mbambo, 23, was killed while walking through the veld with five fellow handlers, who worked for circus […]

FRANCES National Aids Council on Monday asked 39 drug companies suing the South African government over its plan to use cheaper, generic Aids-fighting drugs to withdraw their lawsuit. Hearings are set to resume on Wednesday in Pretoria into the complaint filed by the 39 companies including Glaxo Wellcome, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Boehringer Ingelheim for violation […]

EIGHTEEN people died during a heavy storm at the weekend in Luanda, a representative for the city said on Monday, while hundreds of homes in the city’s shantytowns were destroyed. Joao Dombaxi, representative for the city government, was unable to provide details on the deaths, but state media earlier reported that eight people died in […]

ADE OBISESAN, Lagos | Tuesday ETHNIC Igbo in southeast Nigeria are demanding more than $63bn in government compensation for alleged injustice and rights violations committed during the 1967-70 Biafran war. The request has been submitted to a human rights panel which will begin sitting this week in the historic city of Enugu. The panel, set […]

NOMADS from neighbouring Chad killed 11 villagers including a baby in the north of the Central African Republic (CAR) in attacks last week, state radio reported on Monday. The assailants torched 65 homes at dawn and shot arrows at those who attempted to flee, then headed back to Chad, the radio said. Police on both […]

SAMIA NAKHOUL, Beirut | Tuesday ISRAEL has sparked further fears of a regional war in the Middle East after its airforce knocked out a Syrian radar base in Lebanon, killing three soldiers and prompting Damascus to put its 35_000 troops in the country on high alert. The attack, 35km east of Beirut in the early […]

CITIGROUP, the biggest US financial services group, on Monday bore witness to the effects of the economic slowdown in its home economy and the worldwide stockmarket slump, with first quarter earnings falling below expectations and levels achieved in the same period last year. The bank, insurance and consumer finance group’s earnings per share fell 6,6% […]