HUMAN rights groups condemned human rights abuses in Tibet in a protest at the Chinese consulate in Durban on Tuesday, the second day of the state visit to South Africa by President Jiang Zemin. In a scuffle during the protest, Chinese consulate officials held a group of demonstrators until they handed over film after a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday 12.15pm. RICHARD Tate, head of the organisation representing Zimbabwe’s 7700 tobacco growers, rejected as “mischievous” claims they were boycotting Wednesday’s start of annual auctions to blackmail President Robert Mugabe’s government. Abysmal prices of $1.56 a kilogramme for the first bales sold — compared with producers’ break-even price of $2 — […]
A MAN has been arrested for the murder of two foreign tourists near the Sun City game reserve last week. North West province police said the 45-year-old suspect was arrested on Saturday night. He is thought to be the driver of the car that pulled up beside Danish holidaymakers Hendrik Phalund, 33, and Peter Espersen, […]
MALAWI’s national airline has appealed for urgent World Bank funding after admitting its attempts at restructuring have failed. Malawi’s Privatisation Commission said in a statement on Tuesday that World Bank funding is essential to keep Air Malawi operational until the airline is either sold off or a joint venture investor can be found. Commissioner executive […]
THE Vodacom Cup final between Griquas and the Free State Cheetahs in Bloemfontein on Saturday will be handled by referee Carl Spannenberg, with Eugene Daniels and James Sherriff named as the touch judges. Daniels is also the reserve referee. In the semifinals, the Cheetahs beat the Falcons 42-22, while Griquas whipped Western Province 41-27 to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 2.00pm STORMERS and assistant Springbok coach Alan Solomons has blamed the poor showing of South African teams in the Super 12 to regionalisation and the structure of the competition. Solomons said that the poor results cannot so much be blamed on poor form on the part of the players, […]
UGANDAN police said on Tuesday they were unable to start examining a possible new mass grave used by members of a Doomsday cult believed to have murdered around 900 of its followers because they lacked equipment. Officials say they had sealed off a house in a Kampala suburb rented by cult leader “Father” Dominic Kataribabo […]
PETER CUNLIFFE-JONES, Abuja | Tuesday 9.50am. LEADERS from dozens of African countries gathered in Nigeria on Tuesday for the world’s first summit focused on malaria and were expected to commit to halve the one million death toll from malaria in the next ten years. Malaria, prevalent on the Indian sub-continent, in sub-Saharan Africa, southeast Asia […]
THE cash-strapped Ethiopian Olympic Committee is looking for solutions from both the public and private sector to finance athletes going to the Sydney Olympics, weekly paper The Monitor reported on Tuesday. The EOC needs between three and four million Birr ($366000 and $489000) to send about 35 athletes to the Games.
TRANSPORT Minister Dullah Omar is concerned at the high death toll over the Easter weekend, with 101 fatalities recorded at 2pm on Monday since the start of the break. KwaZulu-Natal, with 25 fatalities, has the highest incidence of road deaths, followed by Mpumalanga (19), Northern Province (17), Free State (11), Eastern Cape (10), North West […]