CONSTRUCTION of the 400-kilovolt powerline between Windhoek and Namibia’s border with South Africa is well on course and should be completed before the end of this year. NamPower on Monday reported progress on the 735km single-circuit powerline which has already reached Gibeon while the new Kokerboom substation 15km east of Keetmanshoop is nearing completion. The […]

MOROCCO has appealed to several sub-Saharan African countries to help it recover two enclaves occupied by Spain. The country’s prime minister Abderrahmane el Youssoufi said on Monday that Rabat needs the diplomatic support of South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Kenya and Nigeria to win back the enclaves of Melilia and Ceuta, which remained under Spanish control […]

ZIMBABWE’s powerful labour movement on Monday threatened mass action against employers who have failed to award staff a 20% wage increase to cushion them against rising living costs. Morgan Tsvangirai, secretary general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, told a news conference that some three-quarters of Zimbabwean companies awarded their employees the 20% adjustment […]

THE South African Tourism Board is to launch a R90-million marketing campaign this year to attract tourists from Britain, Europe, and the United States. Deputy Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Peter Mokaba, speaking after a meeting in Johannesburg of the Tourism Forum, said the campaign, to be launched later this year, will involve R50-million spent […]

SOUTH African captain Hanse Cronje led his team to a stunning three-wicket victory against Pakistan in the one-day limited-overs international at Buffalo Park in East London on Saturday, claiming man-of-the-match title after taking two for 17, in ten overs. Some 13 000 people attended the match to see Cronje’s men extend their unbeaten run over […]

BUSINESS conditions in the building remain tough for at least the next six months, the Bureau for Economic Research at Stellenbosch said on Tuesday. The BER, attached to Stellenbosch University, said it anticipates that the overall construction cycle will reach a low in the last quarter of the year before general conditions improve. The survey, […]

STEEL giant Iscor said on Monday it would close its 96-year-old Durnacol coal mine in 2000 because continued production there is no longer economically viable. Iscor chairman Hans Smith said in a statement that massive cutbacks in domestic steel production had resulted in a dramatic drop in demand for coal from Durnacol. Iscor mining division […]

A DELEGATION from British Aerospace arrived in Libya late on Monday, Libyan television monitored by the BBC, reported. The BAe delegation is to hold talks with representatives of Libyan communications and transport ministry “on relations between the two sides”, the report said, without giving further details.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Tuesday 10.00pm. FOLLOWING Friday’s sale of 20 tons of Namibian ivory, the first legal ivory auction in a decade, Zimbabwe has followed suit, selling 20 tons to Japanese buyers on Tuesday in Harare. Willas Makombe, director of the Zimbabwean National Parks and Wildlife Management, said that the parks authorities were satisfied […]

TREVOR TUTU, the son of Truth and Reconciliation Commission chairman Desmond Tutu, pleaded not guilty to two charges of tax evasion in the Johannesburg Regional Court on Monday. The controversial Tutu told the court he could not pay tax or submit returns during 1996 and 1997 as he was a ”fugitive from justice” at the […]