CONSTRUCTION firm LTA Earthworks Africa announced in Johannesburg on Friday that it has won a major rehabilitation project valued at R200-million in Ethiopia. The project is a joint venture with CCC and Balfour Beatty and is financed by the World Bank. Peter Davies, LTA Earthworks’ general manager (Africa) said the Gewane-Mille project in Ethiopia consists […]

THE two journalists from The Standard Mark Chavunduka and Ray Choto, have returned to Zambia after spending two months receiving medical and psychological treatment from London’s Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. Although the Medical Foundation wanted the two, who were illegally detained and tortured by the military, to continue receiving treatment, […]

ARMY rebels torched the presidential palace and the French embassy in Guinea-Bissau on Friday, the second day of heavy fighting in the capital Bissau, Portuguese and French sources reported. The residence of President Joao Bernardo Vieira, who has reportedly asked for asylum after his troops were defeated by mutinous soldiers, was ablaze like the French […]

A CHARGE of being in possession of a stolen vehicle was withdrawn against Kaizer Chiefs midfielder Lifa Gqosha when he appeared in the Protea regional court in Soweto on Thursday. Soweto police spokesman Inspector John Shiburi on Thursday said that police had withdrawn charges against Gqosha of possession of a stolen vehicle and resisting arrest, […]

SECURITY has been tightened in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands town of Richmond ahead of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki’s visit to the area on Sunday. Roadblocks have been set up in the main entrances of the town and the nearby residential areas of Endaleni and Magoda. Both defence and police force personnel are patrolling the ANC stronghold […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Saturday 8.00pm. SIXTEEN political parties will contest South Africa’s second democratic election on June 2, three fewer than during the first all-race poll in 1994, election officials announced on Saturday. Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) chief electoral officer Mandla Mchunu told a press conference that, in all, 26 parties will contest national […]

PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela is to honour his director-general Jakes Gerwel and Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Washington, Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, for their efforts in mediating an end to the Lockerbie dispute, his office said on Saturday. The two men will receive special awards at a lunch hosted by Mandela in Cape Town on Tuesday, an […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Hove | Thursday 10.00am. EXTRACTS, or rather “adaptations,” from South African pace bowler Allan Donald’s autobiography published in The Express this week have apparently raised more than a few hackles. Donald, in three printed extracts has taken to task the England team, West Indian captain Brian Lara and England allrounder Dominic Cork. And […]

THE Labor Party has approached the World Court in The Hague to intervene on its behalf and that of other parties that do not have enough money to pay the required deposits to contest the elections. LP leader Martin Nel on Wednesday said the party decided on this action after being denied direct access to […]

FRIDAY, 12.45: INSURANCE giant Sanlam is to merge its asset management functions with those of financial services company Genbel Securities (Gensec) in a R17,8-billion joint venture that comes ahead of Sanlam’s demutualisation and delisting. The most likely way of structuring the transaction will be for Gensec to issue 96 million new shares to Sanlam, effectively […]