SOUTH African retailer Pick and Pay has entered into a deal with online service provider M-Web to develop, maintain and host its new online home shopping site. Pick and Pay said the deal with M-Web formed part of its e-commerce strategy which entailed a planned launch for the group’s new shopping site on the Internet […]

INTERNATIONAL oil and gas exploration and development firm Zarara Energy is to start exploratory drilling at the Kandamis gas development project in Turkey. The first well in the program should spud by November 16 and will target the Osmancik sand at approximately 4 500 feet. Zarara last month announced it had taken a 25% stake […]

MANOAH ESIPISU, Lusaka | Thursday BRITISH International Development Minister Clare Short has singled out Zimbabwe and Kenya as countries that need clean government, urging African leaders to follow Malawi’s lead in fighting corruption. In Zambia on a tour of Africa to promote good governance, Short said it was what was happening to Zimbabwe’s economy and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday CONFIDENCE in South Africa’s government has plunged over the past year but the African National Congress (ANC) is still expected to dominate municipal elections next month, a recent poll indicated. “Trust in major institutions appears to have hit rock bottom on the eve of South Africa’s local government elections,” said […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Wednesday THE Madhlopa Commission has uncovered another web of corruption in Mpumalanga, finding that the province’s powerful Highveld District Council chief executive Charles Makola irregularly awarded multi-million rand tenders to politicians and friends and intimidated those who threatened to expose him. He also got his job using two fraudulent drivers’ licences […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s sister, Sabina, has hopped onto the land-grab bandwagon by driving up to a white-owned farm in her Mercedes-Benz and exhorting black squatters to grab chunks of the farm for themselves. The occupiers seized 380 hectares of prime land, leaving farmer John Wilde with 420 hectares of arable […]

SUSPECTED viral meningitis has been detected among Zimbabwean soldiers fighting in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Zimbabwe Health Minister Timothy Stamps said this week. He said no deaths had been reported but that some soldiers had been flown home to Zimbabwe and quarantined to protect against the spread of the highly […]

AN illegal Mozambican immigrant drank rat poison and died because he thought police were going to arrest and deport him for taking his girlfriend’s cell phone and R200. But his girlfriend never laid charges against him and by the time she told him, it was too late. The man told his unnamed girlfriend that he […]

A SENIOR official in the Eastern Cape roads and public works department has been suspended for alleged corruption, says MEC Phumulo Masualle. The official was allegedly found using departmental equipment at his private premises for his own purposes. Masualle said four other suspended officials, including Dennis Maart, had been called back to the department so […]