TANZANIA and Kenya plan to co-host the 2004 African Nations’ Cup finals, the Football Association of Tanzania (FAT) said on Monday. FAT Secretary-General Ismail Aden Rage said FAT and its Kenyan counterpart, the KFF, reached the decision when top officials of the bodies met in Nairobi last week. Rage represented FAT in the meeting while […]
THURSDAY, 6.00PM: ZIMBABWE’S Millers Association announced on Thursday that it will raise the price of mealiemeal (a porridge made from maize), Zimbabwe’s national staple, by between 15% and 18% as soon as current stocks run out. This flies in the face of a promise made by President Robert Mugabe’s government in the wake of the […]
pesticides Mercedes Sayagues Activists are battling to stop a Danish- funded project to burn pesticides in a dilapidated cement factory in Matola, near Maputo. Burning toxic waste in cement kilns creates dangerous cancer-causing compounds known as dioxins and furans. Strict standards must be maintained for safety. It is doubtful whether the Portuguese-owned factory, which has […]
Donna Block Share World For months now my husband, the spending phenomenon, has been nagging me to get a real job and get back into my pre-journalistic profession – stock-broking. And to tell you the truth I’ve been seriously thinking about it. After working on Wall Street for most of my adult life and watching […]
Peter Makurube The release of three jazz albums at the same time? It’s enough to overwhelm the ancestors of South African jazz – a night of their dreams! June 5 sees the launch at Mega Music Warehouse of three new CDs by artists who’ve stayed in the country, who neither emigrated nor sold out to […]
Gavin Dudley With the recent media emphasis on global telecommunications, meaning that more people around the world are in touch more of the time, we could reasonably expect our cellphones to continue working wherever we are in the world. Sadly this is still not the case, though this is not a limitation of telecommunications technology, […]
Mercedes Sayagues Looking for Mr Right: lovely bride, nearly a virgin, with notable dowry of 236 000ha of choice ocean property stretching from Maputo to KwaZulu-Natal. Caveat: freehold title does not exist in Mozambique, but dowry is guaranteed by a 50-year renewable concession from the government. Requisites: candidate must have capital to develop dowry. African […]
THE Angolan army has recaptured from rebels the small town of Cuima in the central Huambo province, officials said on Thursday. An army spokesman said 10 Unita rebels were killed in last week’s battle about 80km south of Huambo. The army also announced it has destroyed a Unita base in Caala, southwest of the provincial […]
Robyn Hofmeyr Jeremy’s friend and neighbour Sunday, a typical highveld winter evening. Temperature inversion, the smell of thousands of coal-smoke fires. It’s early evening, not a great time if you’re the parents of young children. My youngest kid is fractious, he wants his bottle and clings to my trouser leg while my older kid whines […]
WITH six team members in the top 10 of both the drivers and co-drivers championships and currently leading four of the six classes, Team Total looks set to make its presence strongly felt in the 1999 Sasol Rally, which starts in Sabie (Mpumalanga) on June 18 and ends in Nelspruit on June 19. It will […]