A GOVERNMENT delegation to tornado-wrecked areas in Transkei had to abandon their visit on Tuesday due to heavy rainfall and lightning. The tornado struck several Transkei areas on Saturday leaving three people dead and hundreds homeless. Government said it will be conducting “proper costing of the damage” — a process that was being hampered by […]
MOZAMBIQUE’s main opposition party, Renamo, on Tuesday rejected the Supreme Court’s endorsement of December elections and called once again for a recount. Earlier Tuesday, Mozambique’s Supreme Court had ruled that the presidential and general elections were in order, dismissing Renamo’s allegations of fraud. President Joaquim Chissano told reporters that Frelimo’s 133 MPs will take their […]
FORMER fighters of Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front have reopened key roads in the interior that had been closed several years, commuters arriving in the capital said on Tuesday. The reopened roads include those linking Kenema and Koindu, Kono, Kailahun and other places in the east, travellers said. Over the weekend, Vice President Joe Demby […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Sunday 1.00pm. SOUTH Africa raced to victory over Belgium in the Hopman Cup mixed teams tournament in Perth on Sunday. The experienced Amanda Coetzer and Wayne Ferreira both won their singles clashes to give South Africa an unbeatable 2-0 lead before the mixed doubles. Coetzer, 28, ranked 11th in the […]
THE Angolan army said on Wednesday it has found a massive Unita heavy arms depot near the central town of Andulo. It also said that its troops have killed 400 rebels in operations close to the southeastern borders. A senior officer in the Angolan Armed Forces, General Jorge Barros, told state media that the 100-ton […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lusaka | Wednesday 6.00pm. THE Zambian government began emergency talks late on Wednesday with senior doctors who earlier issued an ultimatum to go on strike over the sacking of their junior counterparts, a health official said. Elwyn Chomba, the executive director of the country’s largest University Teaching Hospital (UTH),said the meeting to avert […]
A HIGH Court application against Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Zuma by the department’s media director was heard in Pretoria on Wednesday. Marco Boni brought an urgent application asking the court to order Zuma to grant him his severance package, which he said was initially approved by Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad, but later declined […]
MALAWIAN crocodile hunters have asked for their culling quota to be increased fourfold from 200 to 800 animals in an attempt to put an end to crocodile terror at a time when the reptiles kill at least two people a day. Malawi Crocodile Hunters Association president Khalid Hassen said that the country’s crocodile population is […]
AT least three Xhosa circumcision initiates have died and a large number have been admitted to Eastern Cape hospitals recently following botched circumcision procedures. Doctors said traditional surgeons often use the same blade on a string of initiates. At least 42 patients were admitted to northern Eastern Cape hospitals since December for treatment for serious […]
GRAEME Pollock was named South Africa’s Cricketer of the Century in Cape Town on Sunday at a ceremony in which close contender Basil D’Oliveira walked onto the Newlands ground for the first time in his life. The 55-year-old Pollock, an elegant left-handed batsman whose Test average of 60.97 was second only to that of Australian […]