TWO Zambian police officers have been sentenced to death by hanging, after the Lusaka High Court found them guilty of murder. The senior police officers were arrested in March 1999 for murdering a truck driver after hijacking his vehicle laden with copper destined for South Africa, a Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) report said. In […]
TANZANIAN police have seized 151,5 tons of marijuana, destroyed 42 hectares of the narcotic plant and arrested 1 100 suspected drug traffickers, police announced on Wednesday. Police also impounded a kilogram of cannabis resin, an unspecified quantity of bhang seeds and 150,27 grams of heroin. “What is worse are reports that in 10 regions, people […]
PAUL KIRK, Durban | Friday INTELLIGENCE agencies and the state attorney this week sought to stop the Mail & Guardian from publishing information about documents that expose serious irregularities in the R50-billion arms deal. Shortly after the M&G, asked Minister of Trade and Industry Alec Erwin to comment on the documents, Pretoria state attorney Caroline […]
SOUTH African millionaire Mark Shuttleworth, who wants to become the world’s next “space tourist,” could make his flight onboard a Russian craft as early as April, the head of the Russian space agency said on Thursday. Shuttleworth’s flight is possible either in April next year on a Soyuz “taxi flight” to the International Space Station […]
THE Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (Apcon) said on Thursday that radio and television advertisements for tobacco and alcohol would be banned starting next year. Apcon chairman Olu Falomo said the council had also banned hoardings advertising tobacco or alcoholic beverages at sporting events. Falomo said manufacturers could sponsor sporting events but could not display […]
THE National Society for Human Rights yesterday released the names of three more Namibian Defence Force soldiers it alleges died while fighting Unita in southern Angola last month. The NSHR statement was mainly aimed at backing up its earlier claims that eight NDF soldiers were killed in combat with Unita in July. The human rights […]
ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe is expected to declare a general amnesty for nearly 3 000 prisoners in a bid to decongest the country’s overcrowded jails, a cabinet minister has said. Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Patrick Chinamasa said Mugabe would soon pardon 2 987 inmates to reduce the prison population, according to a cabinet […]
CHRIS MCGREAL, Harare | Friday ZIMBABWE’S president, Robert Mugabe, is preparing to declare a state of emergency, and possibly martial law, in response to US legislation imposing sanctions on the country’s leaders because of political violence, according to a Harare newspaper. The report came amid a fresh wave of violence against white farmers and their […]
GLENDA DANIELS, Johannesburg | Friday Striking motor manufacturing workers are about to decide whether to accept intervention by the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) to reach agreement on a wage deadlock. About 21 000 National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) motor manufacturing members went on strike on Monday and about 5 […]
MOVES led by the World Health Organisation for a global convention to cut smoking will increase poverty and strangle the economy, Malawian farm leaders were quoted as saying on Wednesday. They said that about 80% of the country’s 10 million people live in rural areas and are dependent on tobacco production. WHO is leading a […]