MALAWI’S President Bakili Muluzi on Thursday launched the country’s second cellular network, Celtel Malawi, with a challenge for telecommunicationcompanies to focus on providing coverage to thecountry’s impoverished rural regions. Celtel Malawi is a joint venture between the United Kingdom’sMobile Systems,Malawi’s state-owned Posts and Telecommunications Corporation and the government’s main investment arm, the Malawi Development Corporation. […]

Former South African president Nelson Mandela called for greater world cooperation in Tehran on Saturday as he arrived for a three-day visit with Iranian leaders.

THE head of South Africa’s Medicines Control Council has announced that the abortion pill will be available in the country by the middle of 2000. Helen Rees said research into the use of non-surgical abortions in the public health system is to begin in January. Pilot programmes in urban and rural areas will be conducted […]

FOR four overs on Saturday, Griqualand West got the faintest smell of victory in their Supersport Series match against Eastern Province at St George’s Park on Saturday. It was then that the hosts collapsed from 220 for three to 225 for six and suddenly a game that had been destined for the draw heap, got […]

WITH a single wicket standing and 72 more runs to get to avoid the follow-on, Easterns are in trouble in their second A section match – a week after losing to Northerns by 222 runs with a day to spare. In fact, the rain which prevented play until 1pm and the bad light which ended […]

ALL tourist guides in South Africa will have to be registered with the government in future in terms of the Tourism Amendment Bill, which was tabled in Parliament on Friday. The new national registrar of tourist guides will be located in the Department of Environment Affairs and Tourism, replacing the register administered at present by […]

AMBITIOUS English rugby club Leeds are trying to sign up New Zealand World Cup hero Jonah Lomu. If the deal goes through it could mean the giant All Blacks winger playing rugby league and rugby union at the Yorkshire club when the tournament ends. Gary Hetherington, chief executive of Leeds Rhinos (league) and Leeds Tykes […]

Paul Kirk In a little over a week Transparency International will publish its Corruption Perceptions Index for the fourth time. This is an international barometer of how corrupt countries are perceived to be by business. South Africa is fairly high on the list – a sign that business perceives it to be relatively free of […]

Tangeni Amupadhi reports on the run-up to Namibia’s general election For the first time since independence 10 years ago, the South West African People’s Organisation (Swapo) is not guaranteed a two-thirds majority in Namibia’s election scheduled for November 30 and December 1. Over the past five years, the ruling Swapo was a virtual monopolist in […]

Ivor Powell While Angola’s MPLA government continues to pursue its major offensive against Jonas Savimbi’s rebel Unita movement, recent events an ocean away could do more to influence the course of the 25-year civil war than any event on home ground. Though little information has been forthcoming from ongoing meetings of the newly inaugurated United […]