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/ 29 October 2001
A FIRST contingent of South African soldiers taking part in a multi-national force to protect exiled political leaders returning to Burundi arrived in Bujumbura on Sunday. The soldiers, dressed in full combat gear, arrived in the Burundian capital at 2:00 pm local time after a three-hour flight from the Waterkloof military base near Pretoria. The […]
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/ 29 October 2001
ZIMBABWEAN health staff have begun a mass anthrax campaign after at least 15 people contracted the disease in central Zimbabwe, apparently after butchering infected cows. Local media said the latest outbreak was first noticed in cattle in early October, with the first human case reported on October 20. The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation said a “massive […]
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/ 29 October 2001
Washington | Wednesday IN a public relations setback, the Pentagon acknowledged on Tuesday that US warplanes missed their targets in two separate incidents over the weekend, dropping bombs on a residential area of Kabul and near a senior citizens home on the outskirts of Herat. Pentagon representative Victoria Clarke said the Pentagon had no information […]
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/ 29 October 2001
Baku | Wednesday DRUG trafficking from Afghanistan has increased since the start of the US-led military strikes there, Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov said on Tuesday during a meeting with his Azeri counterpart. ”Since the beginning of military operations in Afghanistan, drug traffickers have been trying to increase the volume of narcotics smuggled in (from […]
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/ 29 October 2001
MORE than 180 mini bus taxis were impounded around the Umtata region over the weekend as part of efforts to root out taxi-related violence. The area head of crime prevention, Director Wayne Hackart said the taxis were impounded mainly for defects and in some cases for loading passengers at taxi ranks that had been closed […]
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/ 29 October 2001
Upington | Monday SIX men were arrested on Friday night in Louisvale, Upington after a nine-month old baby was raped and indecently assaulted, Northern Cape police said. Provincial police representative Captain Cherelle Ehlers said that the baby girl’s 16-year-old mother left the child in another person’s care around 10pm on Saturday night while she went […]
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/ 29 October 2001
Pretoria | Monday HOPES for an interest rate cut received a boost on Monday with a 3,5% point drop in the money supply. Should South Africans receive a one percent rate cut it will give them the lowest interest rate since 1986 — just in time for Christmas. The SA Reserve Bank (SARB) reported that […]
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/ 29 October 2001
THE youngest son of philanthropist and businessman Anton Rupert, 49-year-old Anthonij Rupert, died in a car accident in Cape Town on Sunday, SABC television news reported. Rupert, who was travelling alone, apparently lost control of the vehicle in stormy weather in Franschhoek Valley. Rupert was well known in the international wine industry as owner of […]
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/ 29 October 2001
London | Friday A HANDFUL of US special forces are operating in southern Afghanistan, a senior US government official confirmed today amid growing indications that the campaign’s ”ground phase” was close to beginning. The official said that a small number of US forces were supporting efforts by the intelligence community to undermine the Taliban regime. […]
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/ 29 October 2001
MARC LAVINE, Washington | Monday US FORCES are prepared to kill terror suspect Osama bin Laden if he resists capture, a top official said on Sunday, as Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban ordered defences to be boosted to thwart fresh US commando raids. US warplanes meanwhile launched stinging new airstrikes on Taliban targets as US Secretary of […]