TWO trains crashed head-on in remote western Zimbabwe, killing 15 people and injuring at least 20 others. Police said the dead were mostly on a passenger train headed to Victoria Falls from the western provincial capital of Bulawayo, which collided with a freight train headed south on the boundary of the Hwange nature preserve, the […]

A FURTHER 115 cases of cholera were reported in KwaZulu-Natal this week and a total of 22 deaths have been recorded since the outbreak of the disease. Provincial health spokesman Roz Jordan said 62 of the cases were reported in Eshowe and 53 in Ngwelezane, pushing the number of cases reported since the outbreak in […]

THREE Commando members who allegedly forced a Northern Province teenager to eat his faeces appeared in the Potgietersrus court this week and were granted bail of R1000 each. Chrstiaan Jacobus Human, Gert Johannes Pretorius and Hermanus Johannes Nel, were not asked to plead on charges of assault with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm. The […]

SOUTH Africa’s Sekunjalo Investment Holdings is among several groups interested in acquiring the Health & Racquet fitness club chain of LeisureNet, Business Report newspaper said. The newspaper, quoting Sekunjalo Chief Executive Iqbal Surv, said the black empowerment group, had already received approaches from possible domestic and offshore backers interested in funding the buy. Sekunjalo held […]

STEVEN SWINDELLS AND OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday PLATINUM output at industry giant Anglo American Platinum (Angloplat) may fall below two million ounces this year because of a prolonged miners’ strike and earlier flooding, analysts said this week. But the world’s largest platinum producer is still expected to post record financial results for the year […]

ANTHONY GOODMAN, United Nations | Thursday A WORSENING of the situation in civil war-ravaged Angola could affect the border regions of neighbouring Namibia and Zambia and further threaten peace and security in the whole subregion, says UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. His warning came in a written report to the Security Council recommending a six-month extension, […]

KENYA’S Finance Minister Chris Okemo has rejected newspaper reports this week suggesting the country might not fulfill some of the conditions set by the International Monetary Fund for its aid package. He was reacting to comments attributed to President Daniel arap Moi this week that Kenya will not implement some of the IMF conditions for […]

ZIMBABWE’S main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has avoided arrest upon his return to Harare, despite the arrests of three opposition lawmakers and repeated threats from the government to charge him with treason. Tsvangirai said he was afraid that if police arrested him at the airport, the public outcry could run out of control. He has […]

MAURITIAN-led consortium Sena Holdings is investing more than $100m to rebuild what was once Mozambique’s largest sugar factory in the central province of Sofala. The formerly British-owned Marromeu sugar mill in the Zambezi River valley is expected to resume production by mid-2001 after more than two decades of paralysis. Estimates put the factory’s initial output […]