THE Tunisian football officials arrested in Zambia at the weekend for allegedly trying to bribe a referee were charged with corruption on Tuesday. Club Sportif Sfaxien vice-president Yaiche Fakary and committee member Bouset Fadhi had their passports confiscated and must report to the anti-corruption commission in the central town of Ndola twice a week. The […]
JAPAN has given both the Zambian and Zimbabwean governments 1,7-billion to facilitate the construction of a modern bridge at Chirundu border post. Zambian daily The Post reports that finance and economic development minister Edith Nawakwi, signing on behalf of the Zambian government, hailed the funding as it will help improve the vital link to Southern […]
THOUSANDS of residents of Makapanstad in the North West province gathered at a local police station on Wednesday demanding the release of 11 people who allegedly set alight the homes of two women accused by the community of practising witchcraft. The protesters submitted a memorandum to police asking for the women to be arrested for […]
MORE than 200 students at a teachers’ college in Mpumalanga have gone on hunger strike – because they say they are not getting enough food. Boarders at Mgwenya College of Education near Nelspruit complained when only half of them were given breakfast on Tuesday morning. And when only the boarders received lunch, all students decided […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Thursday 1.30pm. JUST one and a half months after the Libyan sanctions were suspended following the handover of the Lockerbie bombing suspects, Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin will lead a ministerial delegation to the mineral rich country in pursuit of closer economic ties. Both state oil company Soekor and private […]
THE Japanese government is to finance the modernisation of Mozambique’s biggest fishing port in the capital Maputo, official sources announced on Wednesday. The national director of fishing, Herminio Tembe, told Radio Mozambique that Japan is donating about four million US dollars for the rehabilitation of the port. The donation comes as the government is striving […]
A DEVASTATING fire at Zambia’s only fuel refinery at Indeni, in Ndola, the provincial capital of the copperbelt region, has threatened fuel supplies to the country’s copper mines and to the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo. Presidential affairs minister Eric Silwamba said: “The damage is quite extensive. We estimate that the plant will be […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cairo | Thursday 2.00pm AN Egyptian archaeologist announced on Thursday that he has discovered an ancient desert route which Moses might have taken to lead the Jewish people out of Pharaonic Egypt more than 3500 years ago. A series of dried up wells revealed an ancient route of around 200km from the Nile […]
SUN International Hotels annouced on Tuesday that it is to buy the Desert Inn hotel and casino in Las Vegas from Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide for $275-million. The complex has 715 rooms, an 18-hole golf course and 32 acres of undeveloped land. Starwood owns the Sheraton and Westin hotel chains.
THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee hearing into the 1992 Boipatong massacre was thrown into disarray on Wednesday when a woman who was sexually assaulted in the attack queried the manner of her cross-examination and refused to answer questions. Attorney Rian Strydom fell foul of the committee as he questioned Molete about her sister’s […]