Yearly Archives: 2001

Bisho | Wednesday MORE than R1,6-million of the R2,136-million budgeted for crime prevention in the Eastern Cape has not been used, the Auditor General’s report on the safety and liaison department finances for 2000/2001 revealed on Monday. The report tabled at a standing committee for safety and liaison meeting said the unused money had been […]

Bloemfontein | Wednesday A 14-MONTH-old baby girl was raped, allegedly by her uncles, in Tweeling in the Eastern Free State on Tuesday. This is the second reported rape of an infant this week. The girl’s mother left her baby in the care of the men when she went to visit her mother-in-law, police representative Sergeant […]

COLOMBIA is taking additional security measures to ensure it will not become a transit point for heroin from Afghanistan destined for users in the United States, a police official said on Monday. ”It is possible that narcotraffickers could use existing smuggling routes to try to bring heroin from Afghanistan to Mexico and the United States. […]

THE Namibian Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources is considering not granting a pelagic quota next year, even though the full quota was caught by the end of the season in August this year. The total allowable catch (TAC) for the past season was 10 000 tons. The season started very slowly with only 700 […]

TOGOLESE President Gnassingbe Eyadema has pardoned a journalist close to the opposition who was sentenced to prison in June for fraud, officials said on Monday. Eyadema on Wednesday signed a decree pardoning Lucien Djossou Messan, who was given a 12-month jail term in June. Messan, editor of the Combat du Peuple weekly, is known for […]

BURUNDI’S national assembly has adopted by acclamation the transitional constitution that will guide the workings of the three-year government due to begin functioning on 1 November. The ABP news agency reported that the “status and restoration of the monarchy can only occur by referendum” and that “all authorised political parties or movements” can take part […]

BRITAIN’S Princess Anne arrived on Monday in the Nigerian capital Abuja for a week-long visit, airport officials said. Princess Anne (51) is scheduled to meet President Olusegun Obasanjo in his office, according to her official programme. The six-day working visit “will highlight the range and scope of the United Kingdom’s engagement throughout Nigeria”. A particular […]

London | Tuesday ABOUT 7 000 sick and dying South Africans claiming compensation for asbestos-related ailments from the London-based insulation and building materials company Cape Plc, may settle for UK25-million (R330-million), their British lawyers said. “This is substantially less than the claimants may expect to receive after a trial, if Cape could have afforded to […]

Harare | Monday ZIMBABWE’S tobacco production dropped 35,3-million kilos in 2001, to 201,7-million kilos, after last year’s record-high crop, the state-run Herald said on Saturday. With an average price of 175 Zimbabwe dollars (US$3,18) per kilo, tobacco sales totalled 35-billion Zimbabwe dollars ($630-million) when the auction season closed on Friday, producers said. Prices were higher […]