SOUTH African media and telecoms group Johnnic Holdings has reported higher interim headline earnings per share (eps) and said it expected continued growth in telecommunications revenues to boost its earnings. Johnnic reported a 138% increase in headline EPS to 191 cents for the six months ended September 30, 2000, compared to a previous 91 cents. […]

MOZAMBIQUE has banned cloven-hoofed livestock and meat product exports from South Africa and Swaziland due to concern over foot-and-mouth disease. The ban excludes poultry, poultry products, eggs, butter and ultra-pasteurised milk. South Africa has reported foot-and-mouth outbreaks caused by different viruses in KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga since mid-September, which has led to the slaughter of thousands […]

ALLAN SECCOMBE, Johannesburg | Thursday IN a rare show of unity, three South African Nobel peace laureates have urged the government to step up the fight against Aids, which afflicts one in 10 South Africans. Former presidents Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk joined Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu in calling on South Africans to accept […]

RUSSIA has agreed to provide military aid and training to the Angolan government in its fight against the rebel Unita movement, says Angolan Defence Minister Kundi Paihama. He said the deal included training Angolan army staff in Russia and providing advisers to teach Angolan troops on the use of arms to be acquired by Luanda, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday A PICK-UP in the pace of South African producer price rises is likely to have more impact on consumer prices in the months ahead, jeopardising the trend towards lower inflation, says the central bank. In its bulletin for the third quarter of 2000, the central bank noted that so far […]

AT least 24 people were killed when a boat carrying illegal immigrants capsized off the Comorian island of Anjouan on Tuesday night, officials said. The immigrants were sailing to the French-ruled island of Mayotte. Six others in the boat survived the accident. Each year thousands of people attempt to cross the 50km stretch of sea […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday MURDER charges have been dropped against the Zimbabwean war veteran alleged to have shot dead a white farmer, David Stevens – ostensibly for “lack of evidence”. Stevens, an outspoken supporter of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), was the first of six white farmers killed in more than nine […]

THREE people accused of painting a 14-year-old girl white after accusing her of shoplifting will be tried in the Louis Trichardt Regional Court in March next year. Former Pep Stores manager Thelma Strydom and two colleagues, Julia Munyai and Albert Mbezi, have not been asked to plead on charges of assault, theft and crimen injuria. […]

SOME 400 Rwandan children who took part in the 1994 genocide have gone to camps for two months of UN-backed re-education before their release, Justice Minister Jean de Dieu Mucyo said this week. Their training, financed by UNICEF (the UN Children’s Fund), includes civics lessons and workshops on justice and human rights. Between 2 000 […]