UGANDAN coffee exports grew by 12 percent in the past financial year due primarily to good weather, earning the country over $300-million. According to a finance ministry report issued on Thursday, Uganda exported 214060 tons of coffee in 3,6-million bags of 60kgs each, up from the last financial year’s 172_ 438 tons (2,9-million bags), which […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 4.00pm MPs on Monday unanimously chose African National Congress leader Thabo Mbeki to take over from Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa. The announcement, by Constitutional Court president Arthur Chaskalson, that he had been elected unopposed was greeted with a roar of applause and a standing ovation from […]
AT least 57 more people have died as an outbreak of a virulent strain of highland malaria spreads in southwestern Kenya. A clinical officer at Kilkoris government hospital, says another 30000 people have been affected by the disease in the remote Transmara district, about 240 kms west of Nairobi. A reporter who visited the region […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 9.30am POLICE and army troops have been redeployed to the volatile Cape Flats after a weekend of gang-related fighting that left 19 people injured and two dead. On Monday morning three-year-old Chantien Veldsman, the daughter of slain Cape Flats gang leader Glen Kahn, is in a critical condition in […]
AUSTRALIAN star leg spinner Shane Warne could be driven from the game by unrelenting media attacks, according to cricket World Cup skipper Steve Waugh. Waugh, speaking before Sunday’s clash with South Africa, said: “Shane’s under a lot of pressure and is copping a lot of stick from back home in the press. “I’m really not […]
SENIOR Western Cape intelligence officer Senior Superintendent Jeremy Veary has started grievance procedures against National Police Commissioner George Fivaz in the battle for the job of provincial intelligence boss. The position went to Senior Superintendent Attie Trollip, who from May 1 was promoted to director in line with the appointment, despite Veary being named as […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Sunday 11.30am POLICE at Cape Town’s airport have seized about 30 semiautomatic and automatic guns and several rifles from security staff of Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi, due here Sunday, a South African official said. The arsenal was seized when about 113 members of Kadhafi’s security force flew into Cape Town […]
Former police general Frans Steenkamp approved the 1993 murder of Umkhonto we Sizwe commander Zwelakhi Nyanda, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard on Monday. Former security police Brigadier Willem Schoon testified in Pretoria that Nyanda had been in charge of an MK unit in the former Natal province that was responsible for many deaths. Nyanda […]
WAYNE Ferreira beat last year’s runner-up Laurence Tieleman of Italy 3-6 7-5 6-1 in the at Queen’s Club’s $750000 London grass-court championships on Monday. Ferreira, the 10th seed and 1992 champion, managed to complete his game before other matches were washed out. Triple Wimbledon champion and four-times winner at Queen’s, Boris Becker, met Czech Petr […]
ZIMBABWE admitted on Thursday that the village of Manono in the Democratic Republic of Congo has fallen to rebel forces, but said Southern African Development Community troops made a “tactical withdrawal”. Army spokesman Chancellor Diye said in a statement that just 94 men had held out at Manono, the birthplace of DRC President Laurent Kabila, […]