FIFTY-FIVE more bodies of murdered men, women and children have been found in a mass grave in the Kampala home of a leader of a cult blamed for the deaths of about 1000 people, police said. Police spokesman Assuman Mugenyi said the bodies were exhumed from a small Kampala house rented by Father Dominic Kataribaabo, […]
SIERRA-LEONE’S president has urged his shattered nation to embrace national reconciliation and appealed to fighters from its civil war to halt atrocities against civilians. “Continued violations and abuses against innocent civilians are inimical to national reconciliation,” President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah told the nation in a broadcast message to mark the 39th anniversary of independence. Kabbah […]
THE detained son of slain Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba has begun a hunger strike to force the authorities to tell him why they arrested him. Francois Lumumba, who was arrested at his home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo capital Kinshasa on Saturday, began his fast on Wednesday. Francois Lumumba has emerged as […]
A TWO-DAY conference of West African foreign and defence ministers and senior military officials has opened in Accra to examine the problems of children affected by war. The conference co-hosted by Ghana and Canada is also being attended by war-affected children from Liberia and Sierra Leone. In an address at the opening ceremony, Ghana’s President […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, New Delhi | Saturday 4.00pm CRICKET chief Ali Bacher has said he never blamed Pakistan for fixing World Cup matches, said a senior Pakistani official. Bacher has clarified to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) he did not mention the name of any country or umpire while telling Australian newspapers on April 19 that […]
LAMONTVILLE Golden Arrows have been promoted to the Castle Premier League after beating Premier United 2-1 to win the MTN First Division Coastal Stream league championships at the weekend. The team from KwaZulu-Natal ended the season on 61 points from 26 matches. Arrows were active in the old National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) during the […]
Former president Nelson Mandela on Saturday visited the survivors of last month’s nightclub stampede and their families.
Matthew Krouse CDs OFTHEWEEK Ns (Hannibal) is Virgnia Rodrigues’s second album. According to Internet sources she is a 35-year-old ex- manicurist and domestic worker from the slums of Salvador. On the cover of her latest album you can see the star of Salvador, who now makes her music in Brazil – centre of the Latin-American […]
Shaun de Waal MOVIE OFTHEWEEK It was Edward Said who, in his book Culture and Imperialism, pointed to an aspect of Jane Austen’s 1814 novel Mansfield Park that had not been much remarked upon. It was slavery. Such a heavy issue may seem at odds with the sequestered world of Jane Austen, who compared her […]
Fiona Macleod When a dog has a cat up a tree, you hope that it either loses interest or its owner calls it to heel. But what do you do when neither intervention takes place? This is the dilemma facing one of two groups claiming title to the Friends of the Cat welfare organisation, based […]