THE road death toll since December 1 has rocketed to 834 as motorists continue to stream home from their holiday destinations, Arrive Alive said on Wednesday morning. In a statement it said that in the 587 accidents, 374 of the dead were passengers, 243 were pedestrians and 217 were drivers. Figures show that KwaZulu-Natal recorded […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Windhoek | Tuesday 3.00pm. TWO French children were shot dead and another French national killed when men in combat gear attacked tourist vehicles in Namibia, wounding at least two other people, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. The Namibian government is blaming Angolan rebel group Unita for the attacks. The parents of the children […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | day 11.00m. MOZAMBIQUE’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that December’s presidential and general elections were in order, dismissing allegations of fraud by the country’s main opposition Renamo party. The court’s judgement was broadcast live on state radio and television after it had investigated a suit by Renamo, which has claimed fraud […]
NIGERIA’s government has set up a panel to probe the foreign exchange dealings of the four military regimes in power from 1983 until May last year. Hundreds of millions of dollars are alleged to have been illegally transferred out of Nigeria under the regimes.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 6.30pm M-WEB, South Africa’s largest Internet Service Provider in the dial-up market, will take over the dial-up subcriber base of NetActive, which will now concentrate on e-commerce. This is M-Web’s third such deal in a month — the company obtained the subscriber bases of Club Internet and Cyberhost in December. […]
MOZAMBIQUE’S Supreme Court has concluded investigations into allegations of electoral fraud filed last month by the country’s main opposition Renamo party, state radio reported on Monday. “The court has concluded its investigations and the final verdict will be announced Tuesday morning,” said Radio Mozambique. Renamo denounced last month’s presidential and parliamentary elections as fraudulent and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 8.45am PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki accused the West on Monday of failing to do enough to tackle Africa’s economic and political problems. “Not enough is being done about that. There needs to be taken a decision really without equivocation,” Mbeki told CNN in his first television interview of the year, and […]
THREE French tourists, including two children, were murdered by gunmen dressed in uniforms on Monday on the road between Andara and Bagani about 40 kilometres west of Rundu in Namibia. SABC radio news said on Tuesday that the gunmen opened fire on a minibus on the same road shortly before the attack on the tourists. […]
FOUR more bodies have been found in the hold of a Liberian-registered cargo ship, the Karonga, which was unloading 8500 tons of cocoa in the port of Ilheus, bringing the total of dead stowaways to 10. The bodies of six other stowaways, believed to be Africans traveling without papers, were found on Friday on the […]
ENGLAND all-rounder Andrew Flintoff could miss the remainder of the tour of South Africa after fracturing his left foot during the second day of the fourth test on Monday. “He has a fracture of the second metacarple of his left foot,” said team physio Dean Conway. “He will definitely not bowl again in this test […]