THE RECENT grenade attack on the headquarters of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party was staged by an undercover police officer assigned to infiltrate the party, the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has alleged.”The evidence in our possession clearly points to the involvement of people in the highest offices of government in a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nelspruit | Saturday TWO teachers, the owner of a Nelspruit panelbeating firm and five others have appeared in court at Mala in the Northern Province lowveld for robbing an American honeymoon couple and their tour guide outside the Kruger National Park earlier this month. The eight were arrested this week in a joint […]

IVORY Coast’s army ruler, General Robert Guei, has pledged to restore order after an attempt to assassinate him this week and said there was no reason to delay a presidential election due on October 22. ”The elections have already been postponed once…Let no one look for any underhand reasons to push them back again or […]

THE government in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has seized the assets of two privately run radio and television networks, one week after barring them and eight others from broadcasting. Radio Tele Kin Malebo (RTKM) and Canal Kin 1 and 2 have been put under the management of the ministry of information. An official […]

CHARLES MANGWIRO, Quelimane | Friday THE number two leader in Mozambique’s powerful official opposition party, Renamo, has been axed for allegedly betraying party leader Afonso Dlhakama in return for financial reward from the ruling Frelimo party. Raul Domingos, Dlhakama’s right-hand man in Renamo, was formally expelled from the party by Renamo’s national council meeting in […]

BELINDA BERESFORD, Johannesburg | Friday IT’S a great mystery: why are South Africans, a group with a rich heritage of protest, not toyi-toying at the petrol pumps and causing chaos across the country, like the Europeans? After all, the British, renowned for their tolerance, have caused the Labour Party’s juggernaut to falter because of a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT AND AFP, Durban | Saturday THE outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the Kwazulu Natal Midlands – which has seen six countries imposing bans on South African meat and livestock – has spread to a neighbouring farm in spite of desperate efforts to contain the disease. A cow tested positive for the highly infectious […]

MARIAM ISA AND OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Friday SOUTH Africa’s central bank is keeping interest rates steady, in line with analysts’ expectations, saying domestic fundamentals for keeping inflation low remain favourable despite steep global oil prices. Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni reassured jittery markets by saying he was confident the bank would meet its newly […]

THE European Commission is to propose a ban on the import of all meat products from the area around Camperdown in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands where there was an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease on a farm last week, an EU official said. The Commission, the European Union’s executive body, will put the proposal to the […]

Guy Willoughby theatre It may seem unfair to begin a review of a spanking new South African play by spanking new South African players by talking about their ‘minence grise – dramatist-cum-drama school mogul Deon Opperman – but Opperman, if not his prot’g’s, may appreciate the irony. Opperman’s response to the challenges of changing audience […]