UGANDA is threatening to withdraw from a regional airline co-owned with South Africa and Tanzania unless routes for state-owned Uganda Airlines Corporation are guaranteed. If no guarantees are reached Finance Minister Gerald Sendaula will issue a notice of Uganda’s intention to pull out of Alliance Air because the regional airline has made UAC unattractive to […]

GAUTENG housing MEC, Dan Mofokeng, is demanding a total of R1-million from the National Party in the province and its leader, Johan Kilian, for defamation over an auditor general’s report Mofokeng released on December 28. Kilian accused Mofokeng of suppressing some of the report’s findings. The report appeared to clear the provincial housing and land […]

A MARATHON high treason trial involving 32 police officers in the Lesotho High Court failed to proceed on Tuesday following failure by the prosecution to appear in court. Presiding Judge Baptista Molai explained that for unknown reasons the crown counsel failed to appear and the trial was postponed to February 2. The 32 police officers […]

BOTSWANA’S inflation rate increased to 6,4% in December, up from November’s 6,2%, the Bank of Botswana announced on Wednesday. The all items consumer price index was up to 115,3 from 114,9 the previous month, from a base of 100 in November 1996. The bank says it expects inflation to rise further, largely as a result […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 10.30am. THE Competition Board is planning to launch a probe into a number of pharmaceutical manfacturing concerns following complaints that they are engaged in restrictive practices after setting up exclusive distribution channels. Business Day reports that according to the complaints, International Healthcare Distributors and Synergistic Alliance Investments IHD was established […]

BRITISH Airways Travel Clinics in South Africa has launched an Internet-based malaria study, claimed to be a world first. As many as 2,7-million people die from the mosquito-borne disease in Africa every year, but there is a dearth of information on the human and social impact of the disease. “Surprisingly little detailed information is available […]

TABBY MOYO, Windhoek | Monday 5.15pm. VALUE Added Tax (VAT) on payments on goods imported into South Africa from its partners in the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) — Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland — was launched on Monday. Late last year South Africa, in an effort to stem the billions of rands worth of […]

MANUEL MUANZA, Luanda | Sunday 5.00pm. THE United Nations has suspended all missions to the besieged town of Humabo in central Angola, after a second UN-chartered Hercules C-130 was apparently shot down, with eight people aboard. A local Huambo radio station said the plane, which had taken off from Huambo for Luanda, was hit by […]

BUSINESS in South Africa is taking a low-key approach to Friday’s launch of a single European currency, the Euro. On January 1, 11 European nations will see their national currencies subordinated to the common currency, although they will continue to exist in tandem with the new unit until 2002. Most South African businesses say the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Sunday 6.30pm. SUNDAY, 6.30PM THE West Indies are at 84 for 4 in their first innings. Alan Donald, bowling brilliantly and with extraordinary pace to take three quick wickets for 13 runs, suddenly left the pitch with a hamstring injury after taking his third wicket, with the Windies at 34 […]