DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila on Sunday urged the Tanzanian business community to invest in his country, saying that calm would soon return to the strife-torn country. “We are aware that the war in Congo is scaring off many of you. But, we are optimistic that the situation is going to normalise […]
Former South African president Nelson Mandela is writing a second autobiography as a follow-up to his first book, "Long Walk to Freedom".
THE Eastern Cape regional Land Claims Commission (RLCC) has adopted a five-year-plan to speed up land claims in the province, RLCC regional commissioner Tozi Gwanya said over the weekend. Addressing settlement celebrations of the Gwiji family who were dispossessed of their farm Blydefontein in 1953 under the Group Areas Act, Gwanya said the department would […]
DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila said on Monday that his country planned to increase use of Tanzanian ports, particularly for imports to eastern DRC. Speaking during a tour of Dar es Salaam port and Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) facilities on the final day of a three-day state visit, Kabila said the increased […]
A BABY is born every 23.5 seconds in Egypt, and the population has surpassed 66 million inhabitants, up 1.3 million in one year, the national statistics office announced on Monday. The increase was due to improved sanitary conditions an official said. Life expectancy is 69.5 years for women and 66.5 years for men. The Egyptian […]
A WOMAN in labour and her unborn baby were killed early on Monday near Acornhoek in the Northern Province when she fell from the ambulance rushing her to hospital. Police representative Inspector Moashe Ngoepe said Refiloe Masia, 28, of Green Valley in Acornhoek, was being rushed to Tintsoale Hospital at 2am after she started contractions. […]
THE case of Swaziland’s alleged serial killer, David Simelane, has been postponed to next Monday for further investigation, SABC radio news reported. Simelane appeared in the Manzini Magistrate’s Court on Monday on 34 murder charges, following the discovery of 29 bodies at the Malkerns forest in Swaziland about a month ago. When Magistrate Lindiwe Matse-Dlamini […]
A WESTERN Cape police VIP protection service superintendent appeared in the Goodwood Magistrate’s Court on Monday on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol, police said. Western Cape police representative Captain Jacques Wiese said Superintendent David Fortuin was arrested on Saturday night after being stopped at a roadblock in Pinelands during “Operation Beetle”, […]
MANUEL MUANZA, Luanda | Tuesday ANGOLAN rebels, defying government peace overtures, launched a new attack on Monday, two days after an attack near the capital Luanda claimed some 100 lives, the Roman Catholic Ecclesia radio reported. Residents in slums on the outskirts of Uije, capital of the northern province of the same name, fled into […]
SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Tuesday ZIMBABWES opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, facing charges of terrorism and inciting violence, on Monday won a legal bid to have the Supreme Court rule in his case. Tsvangirai and his supporters describe the case against him, which came to trial in a High Court in Harare on Monday, as a […]
ZIMBABWES Minister of Industry and International Trade, who has publicly opposed raids by militant war veterans on businesses, has resigned. Nkosana Moyo handed in his resignation in a letter to President Robert Mugabe on Friday and then left for South Africa, press reports said. Moyo refused to comment on the reasons for his resignation, but […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday ZIMBABWE’S main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai appeared in a Harare High Court Monday to answer charges of terrorism and inciting violence, and asked for the case to be referred to the Supreme Court. The charges against Tsvangirai, President Robert Mugabe’s only real contender in presidential elections due next year, arise […]
PALESTINIAN leader Yasser Arafat made an impassioned plea to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to agree to peace in the Middle East Thursday in a speech to a Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) conference in Pretoria. “I … would like to say to Mr Sharon: My commitment is for peace and stability for your children and my […]
A TEENAGED boy who checked into a Kenyan hospital with stomach pains last week collapsed when doctors told him he was actually a woman and was suffering from menstrual cramps. The 18-year-old boy has a vagina, but never knew because there was a membrane covering it, said district medical officer Dr John Ogange of the […]
ADDITIONAL UN sanctions designed to force Liberia to break its ties with rebels in Sierra Leone will come into effect on Monday for 12 months, the president of the Security Council, James Cunningham, said Friday. The sanctions include a ban on imports of all Liberian rough diamonds and restrictions on air travel by senior officials. […]
ZAMBIAN parliamentarians have filed a motion to impeach President Frederick Chiluba in the wake of his unconstitutional bid to run for a third term, a parliamentary statement said on Friday. The impeachment notice was filed by former local government minister Ackson Sejani, who was recently sacked from Chiluba’s cabinet for opposing the president’s bid. So […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday SOUTH Africa’s technology sector leapt more than three percent at the start of trade on Monday as the market played catch up with a positive Friday Wall Street, traders said. Didata, the networking and IT company which has a 78% weighting in the IT sector, moved up 2.96% to R38.20. […]
THERE was high demand at this week’s East African tea auction, with brisk trading on the floor for quality leafs that were on offer, Africa Tea Brokers (ATB) said in a market report released on Wednesday. According to the ATB report, most catalogues recorded an increase of an average of $1.5 on best lots due […]
A NEW and affordable savings plan, aimed at the lower end of the market, has been launched by Sanlam. The Halala savings plan enables one to save as little as R50 a month over a minimum period of 10 years. Sanlam brand manager for the emerging market, Jimmy Makgato, on Wednesday said that there were […]
RECOVERY teams on Sunday pulled eight more bodies, two of them babies, out of the hull of a lake ferry that capsized and sank at Goma, DRC, bringing the death toll from the tragedy to 38. The bloated bodies, which had been under water for more than three days, were taken from the boat through […]
SWAZILAND police questioned a local journalist for more than two hours on Tuesday demanding to know which sources in the royal household leaked information regarding King Mswati III’s alleged poisoning. Three policemen collected journalist Thulani Mthethwa from the Guardian of Swaziland offices in Mbabane and took him to police headquarters for questioning. “They called on […]
SOUTH African prison authorities went on high alert Saturday after more than 600 prisoners became ill with cholera at a jail outside the eastern port city of Durban, a prison spokesman said. Russel Mamabolo said the prisoners were treated for diarrhoea, vomiting and dehydration after a cholera outbreak at the Westville Medium B prison, about […]
A RESIDENT of Mbumbulu, south of Durban, has confessed to police that he has eaten five people, including a neighbour, City Press reports. Patrick Mbuso Msani (26), a former prisoner at Westville in Durban, apparently told police that he would have eaten two more victims had they not escaped. When a team of reporters from […]
AN attack by UNITA rebels in Caxito, north of the Angolan capital, at the weekend left 100 people dead and 100 others missing, state television reported on Monday. The Angolan army said two soldiers and five police officers were wounded during the attack on Saturday by the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola […]
MILITANT war veterans have threatened Zimbabwe’s top private hospital for the second time in two weeks, forcing its managing director into hiding, hospital officials said Friday. The threats on managing director Malcolm Boyland came after the hospital last week made a Z$115 000-dollar settlement with the war veterans over a six-year-old labor dispute involving 30 […]
THE hearing on child abuse conducted by the SA Human Rights Commission continued on Thursday in Dube, Soweto. The hearing is to investigate the way child abuse cases are handled by courts, to make findings and recommendations and to ensure that criminal investigations into child abuse in Gauteng are done properly. The commission on Wednesday […]
A TRUCK convoy arrived in Kolomba, a southeast Guinean town Wednesday to begin moving some 50_000 refugees from neighbouring Sierra Leone to a safer place in central Guinea, more remote from a combat zone. The refugees were assembled in a salient of Guinea territory known as the Parrot’s Beak, adjacent to Sierra Leone, where they […]
FIVE people – an Australian, three New Zealand tourists and a pilot – were killed in a plane crash over the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana this week, a Botswana aviation official said on Wednesday. The plane was about to land at an airport on Tuesday afternoon, after a game flight over the Moremi Game […]
AT least five people were killed and 10 others wounded after heavily armed militiamen battled each other in southern Mogadishu on Wednesday morning, witnesses and medical sources said. The fighting was sparked by a land dispute in southern Mogadishu’s populous Black Sea neighbourhood, the witnesses said. Two of those killed and three wounded were militiamen, […]
RESCUERS recovered seven bodies on Friday from the port of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a day after a ship sank there, bringing the death toll from the accident to 12. Goma, which is in the hands of rebels, has no rescue or fire service, but workers resumed their search […]
A university in southern Nigeria this week expelled more than 10_000 students – a third of those enrolled at the school – for forging their credentials, a press report said this week. The students, who were among 30 000 enrolled at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma in Edo State, were asked to leave campus immediately, the […]
Deon Potgieter boxing Two of South Africa’s most talented boxers come in from the cold this weekend. Following a 19-month absence from the ring, former two-time welterweight world champion Peter “the Destroyer” Malinga headlines a box-and-dine tournament at the Kopanong hotel in Benoni on Saturday. Malinga was stripped of his International Boxing Organisation (IBO) welterweight […]