# Olympic Games: The first female president of the International Olympic Committee, Kirsty Coventry, pledged to strengthen and extend the Games’ reach when she took over the role in Lausanne, Switzerland. The 41-year-old former Zimbabwean Olympic swimming champion takes over from Germany’s Thomas Bach, who led for 12 years. Coventry says she was honoured to […]
# Olympic Games: Kirsty Coventry, who takes over as president of the International Olympic Committee on Monday, says she regards collaboration with stakeholders as the most important issue in her tenure. The former Olympic swimming champion from Zimbabwe was elected in March to succeed Thomas Bach of Germany. The 41-year-old becomes the IOC’s first female […]
# Olimpiese Spele: Kirsty Coventry, wat Maandag oorneem as president van die Internasionale Olimpiese Komitee, sê sy beskou samewerking met belanghebbendes as die belangrikste deel van haar ampstermyn. Die voormalige swemkampioen van Zimbabwe is in Maart verkies om Thomas Bach van Duitsland op te volg. Die 41-jarige is die IOK se eerste vroulike president. Coventry […]
# Die Internasionale Lugvervoervereniging het bevestig sewe van die top tien lande wat die repatriasie van lugrederyfondse verhinder, is in Afrika, met Mosambiek wat nou die voortou neem. Die direkteur-generaal van IATA, Willie Walsh, sê lugdienste het wêreldwyd met 23-miljard-rand in geblokkeerde inkomste te doen, insluitend drie-miljard-rand wat in Mosambiek vasgevang is. Walsh waarsku dat […]
# The International Air Transport Association confirms seven of the top ten countries blocking airline fund repatriation are in Africa, with Mozambique now leading. IATA director-general Willie Walsh says airlines face 23-billion-rand globally in blocked revenues, including three-billion-rand trapped in Mozambique. The blockage stems from a foreign currency shortage, particularly US dollars. Walsh warns this […]
# Zimbabwe se president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, het ‘n wet onderteken wat vereis dat alle motoriste meer as een-duisend-600 rand vir ‘n jaarlikse radiolisensie moet betaal voordat hulle voertuigversekering kan kry. Hy sê die stap is daarop gemik om die inkomste vir die sukkelende staatsuitsaaier, Zimbabwean Broadcasting Corporation, te verhoog. Kritici, insluitend opposisieleier Nelson Chamisa, het […]
# Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed a law requiring all motorists to pay over one-thousand-600-rand for an annual radio licence fee before obtaining vehicle insurance. Mnangagwa says the move aims to boost revenue for the struggling state broadcaster, Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation. However, critics, including opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, have slammed the fee as harsh […]
# Die Tshwane-universiteit vir Tegnologie se kampusradiostasie vier Afrika-dag met ʼn spesiale oorgrens-koppeluitsending saam met Harare se voorste geselsradioprogram. Afrika-dag word jaarliks op 25 Mei gevier om die stigting van die Organisasie van Afrika-eenheid in 1963, later die Afrika-unie, te herdenk. Tshwane FM se stasiebestuurder, Tebogo Jacko Magubane, sê hierdie uitsending wil radio gebruik om […]
# In celebrating Africa Day, the Tshwane University of Technology campus radio station will partner with Harare’s leading talk radio station for a special cross-border radio simulcast. Africa Day, which is commemorated annually on 25 May, marks the founding of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963, which later became the African Union. Tshwane FM […]
