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 […]
FELIX ONUAH, Abuja | Monday NIGERIAN President and former civil war commander Olusegun Obasanjo has painted a bleak picture of corruption, which he says is the biggest single obstacle to Nigeria’s development since independence from Britain, as the country marked 40 years of independence amid renewed internal strife. ”Nigeria is now perceived as the most […]
AN ITALIAN Roman Catholic missionary was killed in a grenade attack by Sudanese-backed Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in northern Uganda, a Catholic missionary news agency said. The rebels killed Father Raffaele Di Bari, 71, near his mission in Pajule after he had celebrated mass some 20 km south of the city of Kitgum, and […]
THE Ivory Coast has confirmed that a presidential election to restore civilian rule will take place as planned on October 22, rejecting a call from mediating Organisation of African Unity presidents for a delay. The elections, called to restore civilian rule after the traditionally stable former French colony’s first coup in December 1999, have already […]