THE Namibian Minerals Corporation (NAMCO) has launched a project to comb the ocean floor for new underwater diamond deposits. NAMCO, Africa’s second largest diamond producer, says the latest survey technology and three-dimensional images of the ocean floor enabled geologists to identify 163 areas with diamond potential, it said. Namibia’s underwater diamonds, which experts say are […]
AN Angolan police officer has shot an 80-year-old fisherman 30 times after the man refused to give the officer some bananas, the state-run Jornal de Angola reported. Joao Lando had just taken a load of bananas out of his canoe on the Angolan side of the Congo River, when Domingos Chiloia stopped him and asked […]
SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki has held talks with his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade on peace and stability in west Africa, particularly in Ivory coast. Mbeki and Wade were part of an OAU delegation to go to the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, to attempt to defuse widespread tension in Ivory Coast ahead of general elections due […]
BOILING breast milk from a mother carrying the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) will prevent her passing the infection to her baby, says the SA Medical Research Council. ”Tests have shown that all the HIV in the milk is killed when the milk is heated to 56 to 63 deg C for about 20 minutes,” the […]
AFRICAN rubber production should rise by 6.8% this year to 363 000 tonnes, according to estimates from the Abidjan-based Association of Natural Rubber in Africa (ANRA). Ivory Coast, Africa’s largest producer, will reach 120000 tonnes in 2000 against 112000 in 1999, while Liberia, which restarted rubber activities in 1997 after the end of its civil […]
PROF MALEMA, Gaborone | Thursday THE body of an African warrior, preserved, stuffed, boot-blacked, and on show in Spain for close to 100 years, has returned to Botswana for burial. Known simply as El Negro (the black), the body of the unknown soldier was taken from a grave by two French taxidermists in 1830 and […]
AN 11-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly raping a two-year-old child at Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg. Police said the boy arrived at the little girl’s house at 6.30pm and found her with a another girl who was looking after her. The boy allegedly tried to rape the older girl, but she ran away, leaving […]
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 […]