OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 6.00pm. PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki on Thursday expressed confidence that South African hostages, Callie and Monique Strydom, who are been held by Muslim rebels in the Philippines, will be rescued. In a special address to the nation, where he focused on the crisis in Zimbabwe, Mbeki expressed the government’s sympathy to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.10pm ZIMBABWE faces economic isolation over President Robert Mugabe’s land-grab campaign, which threatens property rights and foreign investor confidence, THE South African Chamber of Business warned on Thursday. Sacob head Kevin Wakeford said Mugabe’s hardline speech on the country’s land ownership turmoil on Wednesday will add to the woes of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 6.00pm THE rand has hit a fresh low against the US dollar, knocked by renewed euro weakness, reports of political violence in Zimbabwe and offshore selling by US-based banks. The embattled currency — which has lost more than 12% of its value to the US unit so far this year […]
THE world answered Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano’s call for aid to help with flood relief with an international donation of $452,9-million, the United Nations Development Programme said on Thursday. The final sum, about $3-million more than Chissano requested, was announced at the end of a two day international fundraising conference in Rome. Mark Malloch Brown, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 7.00pm. PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki pledged on Thursday to help Zimbabwe solve its land crisis, but avoided criticising either President Robert Mugabe or former colonial power Britain over the dispute. Addressing the nation in a live broadcast, the president also moved to debunk fears that the country will go the same […]
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UGANDAN police will this week begin searching for more bodies in the home of a leader of the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God cult, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. “We are planning to go to a house at Namasuba in Kampala. There is some suspicion about it and we have picked an […]
THE rand sank through a key resistance level on Wednesday to trade at R6,83 to the dollar, hit by fresh selling sparked by news that Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe wanted whites to leave the country. “The rand traded at R6,83 to the dollar on Mugabe’s comments — but it might top out at around the […]
MOZAMBIQUE’s main opposition party has criticised President Joaquim Chissano’s government for excluding its members from a delegation to an international conference on grant aid for the flood-hit southern African nation. Vicente Ululu, a senior official of Renamo said in an interview with state radio that “our technicians should have been included in the government team […]