Cape Town | Wednesday AFRICAN National Congress Chief Whip Tony Yengeni has been granted R10 000 bail after appearing in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday morning in connection with charges of corruption. He had earlier handed himself over to the crack Scorpions unit after a warrant of arrest was issued. This follows an […]
SOUTH Africa’s Stanbic Bank is one of two banks bidding to acquire a 51% stake in state-owned Uganda Commercial Bank Limited (UCBL), Uganda’s finance minister said on Monday. The other bank whose bid has been received is the Development Finance Company of Uganda. Controversy has erupted over UCBL’s privatisation with the Ugandan parliament demanding that […]
EXTRA troops were deployed on Monday in Cameroon’s English-speaking provinces as local authorities banned all secessionist rallies on the 40th anniversary of national unification, witnesses said. Residents said that soldiers had been sent to the two provinces to prevent any rallies and demonstrations by activists demanding the secession of English-speaking areas from mainly French-speaking Cameroon. […]
ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe will discuss trade and investment issues with Thai leaders during a hastily arranged three-day state visit to begin later on Monday, the foreign ministry said. Mugabe was originally due to attend this week’s Commonwealth summit in Australia but it was abruptly cancelled in the aftermath of last month’s terrorist attacks on […]
MORE than 35 leading officials and supporters of the opposition Popular National Congress (PNC) were arrested on Tuesday as the Islamic party tried to organise a press conference, a PNC official said. Beshir Adam Rahma said that the arrests were made in front of the PNC headquarters in Khartoum’s Al-Riyadh district. Those arrested included PNC […]
Johannesburg | Wednesday SOUTH African Airways (SAA), in which troubled Swissair holds a 20% stake, said on Tuesday it would be losing “a worthy business partner” after the troubled Swiss company said on Monday that it would dispose of its foreign stakes. Swissair has filed for bankruptcy protection and grounded its aircraft earlier in the […]
Brighton | Wednesday BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair called on Tuesday for a deal — democracy and human rights in return for investment and aid — between Africa and the international community. Aid, debt relief and investment should be matched by a commitment to human rights, democracy and rooting out corruption by African governments, he […]
GORDON BELL, Cape Town | Tuesday CAPITAL gains tax (CGT) will pose a challenge to both taxpayers and tax collectors, the SA Chamber of Business (Sacob) said on Monday.
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said after a meeting with former South African president Nelson Mandela on Tuesday that his party was “very committed” to the decommissioning of arms in Northern Ireland. “We are very committed to taking guns out of Irish politics,” Adams said after his half-hour meeting in Johannesburg with Mandela and businessman […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday THE supplement being tested on Tanzanian soldiers by the Central Energy Fund as an Aids treatment is a legal nutritional supplement in South Africa at present. But soon Enerkom, the CEF-owned company concerned will have to make a decision on whether it should market the product — also sold as a plant […]