Own Correspondents

THE chief executive officer of the National African Federation Chamber of Commerce has slammed as ?misleading? a report that black South Africans will earn more than whites for the first time this financial year, saying it gives the false impression that blacks are approaching economic parity with whites. “Forget about the figures – the black […]

WHILE the battle between pharmaceutical companies and the government about medicine prices rages on, traditional healers say an indigenous herb could dramatically improve the condition of Aids patients, if not cure them completely. People whom doctors had sent home to die had a dramatic recovery due to the herb Sutherlandia – known as kankerbos in […]

SOUTH African farmers have vowed protests after the government issued its first expropriation order this week against a white farmer reluctant to give his land back to the original black owners. According to the notice, Willem Pretorius’ Boomplaats Farm will legally belong to the State as of Tuesday next week after which it will be […]

AN overnight curfew has brought an uneasy calm to Kinshasa as uncertainty reigns after the shooting of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Laurent Kabila, reportedly killed by his own bodyguard in an apparent coup attempt. Meanwhile, a diplomat in Bujumbura said Joseph Kabila, son of Laurent Kabila, had also been shot and killed. ?He […]

AN overnight curfew has brought an uneasy calm to Kinshasa as uncertainty reigns after the shooting of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Laurent Kabila, reportedly killed by his own bodyguard in an apparent coup attempt. Officials in the capital made no public statement as to the fate or whereabouts of the president following the […]