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/ 29 November 2001
Johannesburg | Wednesday CANADA’S International Development Research Centre (IDRC) announced that its Acacia Program in Southern Africa will now be hosted by the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). A signing ceremony is taking place today at the Bank’s Headquarters in Midrand, South Africa. The programme aims to empower sub-Saharan communities with the ability to […]
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/ 29 November 2001
Paris | Wednesday AIDS is cutting such a swathe through sub-Saharan Africa that in some countries, life expectancy is nearly half that in the West and the economy could shrink by a fifth over the next two decades, the UN said on Wednesday. Some states may be so weakened by the epidemic that they could […]
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/ 29 November 2001
Mombassa | Thursday AFRICA is losing two million hectares of forest every five years, making the continent move closer to becoming one huge desert, conservation experts warned here on Wednesday. “This translates to 22% of the nine million hectares lost globally in a single year, with a third of the remaining forest area under threat […]
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/ 29 November 2001
ERIKA DE BEER, Pretoria | Thursday SOUTH African company Aerosud on Wednesday signed a contract with Boeing to manufacture parts for a range of its aircraft. This means Boeing jetliners with locally manufactured components will be flying from as far afield as Singapore, Texas and Europe. The South African Airways fleet would also have these […]
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/ 29 November 2001
Kabul | Monday THE Northern Alliance was under mounting pressure on Monday to form a broad-based government in Afghanistan as the last two major pockets of Taliban resistance in the country were reported negotiating their surrender. But international interest seemed to draw increasingly testy responses from the new masters of Kabul, flush from a series […]
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/ 29 November 2001
Bisho | Thursday FORMER Ciskei military commander Colonel Vakele Mkosana’s instruction to soldiers to arm themselves with hand grenades during a march by the African National Congress in 1992 was ”unusual” as the weapons were not often used in densely populated areas, the Bisho High Court heard on Wednesday. Mkosana and Mzamile Gonya are facing […]
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/ 29 November 2001
Midrand | Thursday LOCAL businesses should be applauded for their invaluable contributions to the economy, President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday evening. ”I think we are all coming to understand what we mean to be as South Africans, as contributors to the prosperity of this nation,” he said at the President’s Award for Export Achievement […]
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/ 29 November 2001
Peshawar | Wednesday FOUR journalists killed in a roadside ambush in Afghanistan had been stoned as well as shot to death, a Red Cross official said Wednesday as the bodies arrived in Pakistan. The four bodies were carried to the Torkham border post from the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad in two vehicles of the […]
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/ 28 November 2001
Most writers might prefer their works to stand in for biography in the messy stand-off with posterity; fat chance in a culture obsessed with not only retrieving the facts of who did what to whom, but teasing out the secret, unacknowledged meanings of each action.
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/ 28 November 2001
THE Nigerian central labour movement on Tuesday insisted on the implementation of an agreed 25% wage increase for public sector workers from next year. Following a slight increase in the price of fuel at the pumps, the Nigerian government and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) had in June last year agreed that workers’ salaries be […]