Yearly Archives: 2001

TWO Johannesburg men were arrested on Wednesday afternoon after they were allegedly found in possession of 50 handgrenades, police said. Superintendent Norman Ponnusamy said the grenades were found in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, during a police undercover operation. He said details about the operation could not be divulged as more arrests were expected. A police […]

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika gave his backing Thursday to the US response to the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, saying the bombing of Afghanistan was within bounds. ”It is absolutely remarkable that in spite of a few excesses recorded now and again since the start of the American riposte … we remain […]

A SPY satellite was blasted into space late on Wednesday atop an Air Force Atlas II AS rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Floriday, a military representative said on Thursday. The satellite belonged to the National Reconnaissance Office, the intelligence agency responsible for the government’s spy satellites, said Lieutenant Colonel Joe Lamarca, a representative for the […]

CONGRESS of SA Trade Unions president Willy Madisha has been receiving death threats, Cosatu representative Patrick Craven said on Wednesday. Madisha is currently in hospital for tests following his collapse at a function on Tuesday night. ”The Cosatu leadership is extremely concerned about the recurrence of yesterday’s (Tuesday’s) incident. It is not the first time […]

AXED Cape Town mayor Peter Marais has not backed down on his demand to be allowed to continue his mayoral duties pending the outcome of his court challenge, his lawyer Adri Brand said on Friday. Media reports claiming this was the case were incorrect, he said. Marais’ application for a judicial review of the DA […]

JOHN Robinson, a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison zoology professor who uncovered fossils providing evidence of humans’ primitive beginnings, died last Friday. He was 78. Robinson was a native of South Africa who spent decades in the country’s Transvaal region uncovering hundreds of fossils that helped pinpoint and date the origin of the human race. Along […]

THE United Nations, one of the biggest producers of words, celebrated its 56th birthday Wednesday with a ceremony that took place partly in silence: a performance by the French mime Marcel Marceau. Marceau, a goodwill ambassador for the UN Second World Assembly on Aging, to be held next year in Madrid, was to act six […]

The African Christian Democratic Party has been told religious drumming in South Africa will not benefit from arts and culture department funding. ”I did not commit myself to use funds of my department to finance the reintroduction of religious drumming in South Africa,” Arts and Culture Minister Dr Ben Ngubane said in written reply to […]

A NORTHERN Province chief magistrate appeared briefly in the Pietersburg Regional Court on Friday on charges of theft, SABC radio news reported. The case against 47-year-old Makhanya Ronald Shimange was postponed to January 18 and his bail of R20 000 was extended. In terms of his bail conditions, Shimange was prohibited from communicating with staff, […]

FOUR Eastern Cape Technikon students appeared in the Butterworth Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday in connection with the alleged assasination of provincial student leader Xola Nene on the campus on Monday. Police representative Sergeant Namhla Mdleleni said Ncebenkosi Sirenya (23) Luyanda Nogaga (23) Mncedisi Mazomba (20) and Mtunzi Ntutela (22) appeared on a murder charge. They […]