ROSALIND RUSSELL, Nairobi | Thursday A WAVE of grisly child murders in the Kenyan capital has sparked fury among the city’s residents, with three people killed in a riot in a Nairobi slum where tension has been high since the mutilated body of a five-year-old girl was found in a nearby maize field last week. […]
NAMIBIAN police in hot pursuit of abducted women crossed over the border into Angola, where they clashed with Angolan army soldiers, killing one of them. The police were seeking to rescue three Namibian women allegedly abducted by Unita rebels over the weekend, but found them held at an Angolan army border camp. A Namibian policeman […]
DEVELOPMENT of human resources is one of the most pressing problems facing South Africa’s dual economy, which has a wide disparity in levels of education and training, says the central bank’s chief economist. Economic policies would have to integrate the sophisticated industrial economy and the third world economy. This would entail opening up the developed […]
FUEL-from-coal company Sasol Ltd has bought back six percent of its shares for R1.7bn as part of its strategy to restructure its balance sheet. Sasol said a wholly-owned subsidiary had repurchased the shares over a four-month period. ”The share repurchase will result in revised gearing, a lower weighted average cost of capital and improved earnings […]
GRIFFIN SHEA, Harare | Thursday ZIMBABWE’S first independent radio station has gone off the air, hours after police and secret service agents raided its studio in the latest act of intimidation against independent media in the country. The Capital Radio station only began broadcasting last week after winning a Supreme Court case that broke the […]
BRITISH airline Virgin Atlantic is set to take a major chunk of the lucrative Lagos-London route currently dominated by British Airways (BA). Virgin Atlantic CEO Richard Branson said the Nigerian aviation authorities have already approved the airline’s proposal to fly the route. He said BA’s dominance of the lucrative route was not to the advantage […]
A NORTHERN Province schoolteacher accused of hijacking a newlywed American couple and their driver has been granted R7 000 bail. His seven co-accused, who include another teacher from Skukuza High School, were remanded in custody. Daniel Mashele, 35, is accused of the hijacking and robbery of American newlyweds Scott and Lesley Newman and their South […]
SOUTH Africa has to tighten immigration laws to discourage false asylum claims and marriages of convenience, says Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Some 35% of the 75 000 asylum seekers currently in the country were not genuine, he said, and current migration laws are so badly abused that 60% of migration applications were by spouses […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT with AFRICA EYE NEWS SERVICE and AFP, Johannesburg | Wednesday IN two separate rape cases, an Mpumalanga man has been arrested for raping his eight-year-old daughter for the past two weeks, while a pregnant girl who was raped by Angolan government soldiers at the weekend has died from her injuries. The man from […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Wednesday MPUMALANGA is sitting on a race war time bomb where farm labourers still live like slaves, are denied basic health care and are treated worse than mechanical implements such as tractors, the leading political parties in the province have warned. The situation is so bad in some areas that racial […]