OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 8.30pm WINNIE Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife of former president Nelson Mandela, was on Tuesday called to order by the ruling African National Congress over her criticism of the government’s economic policies. At a meeting Monday at KwaThema, east of Johannesburg, marking national Women’s Day, Madikizela-Mandela, president of the ANC Women’s League, denounced […]

NAMIBIA’S hopes of bringing Caprivi secessionist leader Mishake Muyongo to trial appear to be fading as Danish officials rule out the possibility of his being tried outside his host country. Under Danish laws, a citizen or immigrant can only stand trial in Denmark if a suspect has committed a crime in a foreign country. So […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki called the inauguration of Tito Mboweni as the new governor of the South African Reserve Bank “an important day in our history”. Mboweni took over as governor of SARB from Dr Chris Stals on the stroke of midnight Saturday at a glittering banquet in Gallagher Estate in Midrand, north of Johannesburg. Stals, […]

CHRISTO JOHNSON, Freetown | Tuesday 3.20pm FOUR more hostages arrived in Freetown late Monday following their release by rebel soldiers, leaving 11 still held, diplomatic sources said. They comprised three unidentified members of the United Nations mission in the west African country and a Sierra Leonean television journalist. In London the British Foreign Office said […]

A FRENCH charity launched an appeal on Tuesday for the public to donate their throwaway protective glasses after Wednesday’s total solar eclipse, so that people in southern Africa can use them for the next eclipse, due in Africa in 2001. The charity Glasses for Africa hopes to be able to distribute the glasses free in […]

CHRISTO JOHNSON, Freetown | Tuesday 6.45pm. THE last of the hostages held by former rebel soldiers in Sierra Leone were released on Tuesday. Sierra Leonean Information Minister Julius Spencer told journalists at a press conference in Freetown that the rebels also freed some 200 civilians, mainly women and children, who were captured earlier this year. […]

POLICE on Monday shut down a Roman Catholic radio station that was one of the few independent sources of information in war-torn Angola, a journalists’ union said. Security forces raided Radio Ecclesia as it relayed a BBC interview with UNITA rebel chief Jonas Savimbi, arresting the director and three employees. Excerpts of the same interview […]

THE Daily Mail & Guardian, South Africa’s best-read news website, has launched an expanded sports section, ZA*SPORTS. It is part of a joint venture with the country’s top independent sports agency, MWP. Some of South Africa’s best sports journalists including Neil Manthorp, Andy Colquhoun, Craig Ray, Michael Vlismas, Michael Finch and Telford Vice will provide […]

OFFICIALS in Mozambique have temporarily stopped pumping drinking water from the Inkomati River following reports that a paper plant in Nelspruit last week allowed chemical waste to escape into the river. Mozambican health authorities say they’re trying to determine the seriousness of the spillage. Authorities in Mozambique say they were alerted to the spillage by […]

IT took Marina Hingis to push seventh-seed Amanda Coetzer out of the TIG TEnnis Classic in Carlsbad California on Sunday. Hingis regained her Number One world ranking by beating Coetzer 6-1, 6-2 in the semi-finals. Hingis now faces Venus Williams, who sent Lindsay Davenport home 6-4, 7-5.