South Africa has launched the first community radio for isolated San people. South Africa's Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Cassaburi said the station would educate and inform the San community of South Africa's Northern Cape province. Laurent Kabila pays a visit to Angola. According to observers, the summit proved a failure due to the Kabila's lack of flexibility in the negotiations and the accusations of bias he launched against former President of Botswana, Ketumile Masire, who has been appointed facilitator of the peace process by the Organization of African Unity. Angola has five-thousand troops in the DRC propping the government against rebellions supported by Rwanda and Uganda.
Union leader says Zimbabwe's farm resettlement is unrealistic.
Thomas Herrera, the president of Zimbabwe's black commercial farmer's union said the government would not be able to resettle landless blacks on the white-owned farms before the summer rains. He said a time frame of five years was more realistic. South Africa and Mozambique enjoy successes in their joint operations. Successful joint operations between South Africa and Mozambique have resulted in the arrest of numerous drug lords and the closure of a Mandrax factory in Maputo, the Mozambican capital. Other successes include the recovery of thousands of AK47 assault rifles and other firearms plus millions of rounds of ammunition.