TWO children aged nine and seven died when a grenade was deliberately flung at them in a weekend attack on a village near Namibia’s unstable frontier with Angola. Six villagers at Thikanduko on the border were killed and six others injured when bandits raided the village on Saturday. The children and two adults were ordered […]
US leaders have reached a tentative agreement to extend new trade privileges to Africa, the Caribbean and Central America. Final passage of the legislation after years of negotiations will give a much-needed boost to President Bill Clinton’s free-trade agenda, set back by the collapse in December 1999 of World Trade Organisation talks in Seattle. Under […]
DEPUTY president Jacob Zuma faced criticism when it emerged that the government was buying luxury new cars for his two wives. Opposition groups criticised Zuma, who is number two to President Thabo Mbeki, for obtaining a Mercedes and an off-road Toyota worth R557500 at the taxpayers’ expense. A letter issued by the Office of the […]
THE South Deep joint venture and the National Union of Mineworkers have signed a long-awaited deal to bring labour peace to one of the country’s biggest gold mines. The agreement, which covers a wide range of operational issues, ends months of wrangling between the union and joint venture partners, Canadian miner Placer Dome and South […]
A JUDICIAL inquiry into South African cricket will only get going once an appropriate judge, who will head the inquiry, is identified — and depending on his or her availability. It was anticipated that the inquiry would get going on Monday. But Graham Abrahams, the spokesman for Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour told ZA*NOW on Monday […]
ALAN FINLAY, Johannesburg | Monday 8.00am. A JUDICIAL inquiry into South African cricket will only get going once an appropriate judge, who will head the inquiry, is identified — and depending on his or her availability. It was anticipated that the inquiry would get going on Monday. But Graham Abrahams, the spokesman for Sports Minister […]
Former president Nelson Mandela is to appear in a new telecoms advertisement to be aired in Italy.
AT least 13 people were killed and 20 others wounded in the Jilib district of the Lower Juba region after fighting erupted between two Somali sub-clans at weekend. Gunmen from Galjel and those of Shikal, both belonging to the larger Hawiye clan, fought on Saturday and Sunday following a land dispute and incidents of banditry, […]
FORMER Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda on Sunday joined senior Southern African Development Community (SADC) parliamentarians at a special church service in Cape Town to call for cancellation of Mozambique’s international debt. Kaunda told the gathering in St. George’s Cathedral that the debt largely stemmed from Mozambique’s fight against apartheid and racism. “It is now time […]
ALAN FINLAY, Johannesburg | Monday 10.00am. THE JSE followed Asian markets down and by mid-morning was trading nearly 6% lower following Friday’s carnage on Wall Street. Economists warned that it could slump as low as 10% on the opening of US markets later in the day. “The bottom will fall out. There’s not much to […]