REUTERS AND OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday THE World Bank is to formally classify Zimbabwe as one of the world’s worst economic pariahs as its inflation rate nears 120%, with potentially damaging consequences for South Africa and the entire sub-continent. Zimbabwe will be accorded “non-accrual status” for failing to make any payment on its debt […]

AFP AND OWN CORRESPONDENT, Windhoek | Monday NAMIBIA’S controversial home affairs minister Jerry Ekandjo has launched an astonishing attack on gays and lesbians in his country, urging a group of new police constables to “eliminate them from the face of Namibia.” Ekandjo told 700 newly graduated policemen and women at the police training college at […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Monday OUTSPOKEN Mpumalanga safety and security MEC Steve Mabona has launched a fresh attack on the magistrate who implicated him in a damning 1997 commission report into drivers’ licence fraud, branding him a racist in an emotional public tirade. Mabona told a specially convened press conference he had no respect for […]

AFTER its recent announcement to dispose of its retail investments and focus on providing technological services, retail group Wooltru, together with Woolworths, is to launch inthebag, an online shopping business. Customers will be able to order a range of products, including fresh fruits and vegetables, pre-prepared meals and groceries from Woolworths using a warehousing model […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Windhoek | Monday THE culling of seals by the Namibian government off its shores has been slammed as cruel, inhumane and inadequately managed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw). Responding to an insert screened on Carte Blanche, a television magazine programme, on the current seal cull, Ifaw South Africa projects manager […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday ANGLO American and De Beers are to start severing their 70-year old cross-shareholding relationship after the rules governing inclusion in Britain’s FTSE 100 index were changed, according to reports. De Beer’s managing director Gary Ralfe said in an interview with the United Kingdom’s Sunday Telegraph that the company would consider […]

UNITED States First Lady Hillary Clinton has donated $1.5m to help resettle and rehabilitate Uganda’s children traumatised by 13 years of war in northern Uganda. Clinton had pledged to help Ugandan children affected by war in northern Uganda when she visited Uganda in 1997, ahead of her husband’s visit a year later. The children are […]

VIOLENT clashes over the weekend between Guinean soldiers and armed groups operating from across the country’s southern borders have left 77 people dead in the latest round of fighting that continues to bring misery to civilians and hundreds of thousands of refugees in the area. In the first incursion by armed groups an “alarming number” […]

Former South African president Nelson Mandela is among the first winners of the new Pan-African Broadcast Heritage.

A REBEL faction fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was forced to call off celebrations marking its second anniversary on Saturday after government-allied forces bombarded the north-eastern town of Gemena. Jean-Pierre Bemba, who heads the Ugandan-backed Congolese Liberation Movement (MLC), was to give a speech to residents traumatised by the war, but had […]