AN opposition member of the Burkina Faso parliament and a human rights leader were arrested on Monday following new riots over the murder of a journalist, Security Minister Colonel Djibril Bassole said. Hermann Yameogo, son of the country’s first president Maurice Yameogo when it was known as Upper Volta, will be charged with organising the […]
PANASONIC Systems Company announced on Monday it has appointed its first empowerment franchise called OSEC (Office Solutions Empowerment Company. The firm said OSEC is a private black owned operational company dealing in office automation with the majority shareholding of 70% owned by the managing director, Mthandeni Bengane, and the remainder owned by the other director, […]
A PARIS prosecutor on Tuesday called for a 12- to 15-year sentence against notorious “dog of war” Bob Denard for his role in the 1989 assassination of Comoran president Ahmed Abdallah. Prosecutor Paul Bilger told a court on the penultimate day of Denard’s two-week trial that both the 70-year-old mercenary leader and one of his […]
CONTRIBUTIONS to the job creation fund by business, workers and government are nearing R10-million, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa president Mtutuzeli Tom said on Monday. Tom was speaking after receiving a cheque for R193887 — one day’s salary from 3500 workers — from Daimler-Chrysler at East London in the Eastern Cape. The country’s […]
CAPE Town firm Freeplay Energy Group said on Tuesday it is rushing to meet an order for almost 40000 wind-up radios destined for refugees in the Kosovo crisis. The radios have been ordered by the International Red Cross. They will be used in refugee camps to receive special broadcasts telling people how to get medical […]
JUBILEE 2000, the British-based group campaigning for the cancellation of the unpayable debts of the world’s poorest countries by next year, supports Nigeria’s calls for debt relief, director Ann Pettifor said on Tuesday. Speaking after a two-hour meeting with president-elect Olusegun Obasanjo, the director of the high-profile group said: “We in Jubilee 2000 would be […]
THE director of Jubilee 2000, a British-based coalition of non-governmental organisations campaigning to cancel the unpayable debt of the world’s poorest countries, on Monday began a five-day study visit to Nigeria. Ann Pettifor is expected to meet Nigeria’s president-elect Olusegun Obasanjo to raise questions about Britain’s recent offer of debt relief for Nigeria. British Chancellor […]
THE organisation Muslims Against Illegitimate Leaders will launch a campaign to discourage people from voting in the June 2 election, according to Mail spokesman Abdurahman Khan. Organisations affiliated to the Islamic Unity Convention decided at the weekend to encourage people not to vote, Business Day reported in its Tuesday edition. The IUC claims to represent […]
THE parents of a local game ranger have been interviewed by police in connection with the highly-publicised murder of BBC television presenter Jill Dando. A Johannesburg spokesman for Interpol confirmed on Monday that police are investigating the whereabouts of his handgun was, following a request from Scotland Yard. “He is living in London now, but […]
THE United Nations has set July 31 2000 as the date for a referendum on the future of Western Sahara, according to a UN report released on Tuesday. The referendum to decide the future of the former Spanish colony annexed by Morocco in 1975 will cap a year of identification and appeal processes approved by […]