However, politicians in Mbabane say that this is the first time Mozambique has made such concerted efforts to get its nationals in Swaziland to sign up for military service. The warning follows a raid on a high-class Gauteng brothel, The Ranch, which has been provisionally attached. It is now being managed by a curator, who is tasked with maintaining its value by conducting the legal side of its business, The Star reports. Forty-four foreign women from Zambia, Bulgaria, Russia, Thailand, the Czech Republic and Romania, aged between 20 and 35 were arrested during Wednesday's raid. The Ranch has managed to become one of Gauteng' s best-known tourist attractions, its name recognisable even to business travellers from abroad.
Prostitution is still illegal in South Africa.
Zimbabwe has been grappling with the shortage for close to two months. State news agency Ziana quoted Mugabe as saying at an election campaign rally in the town of Chinhoyi that the government is still investigating mismanagement at Noczim and those found guilty will be brought to book. Even if it's my relative, let him suffer in jail if he was involved in corruption at the company. On Friday the privately-owned Zimbabwe Independent reported that the country was still exporting fuel to support the war cause in the Democratic Republic of the Congo despite the acute scarcity of the energy source. Reaction to President Mbeki's state of the nation address has been mostly positive.