Yearly Archives: 2001

Abuja | Tuesday NIGERIA will leave no stone unturned to prevent further spread of HIV/Aids in the country, President Olusegun Obasanjo declared in Abuja on Monday as he kicked off a rally and a nationwide walk against the scourge. The HIV/Aids rally was organised by the National Action Committee on Aids. “We have played a […]

FOUR people, including a four-year old boy, were killed and six injured in fighting on Sunday between rival minibus taxi operators in eastern South Africa, police said. Captain Mzukisi Fatyela said the four-year-old died when gunmen opened fire on a taxi owner travelling with his family near Umtata in the southeast of the country. The […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday NEARLY 1 000 Zimbabweans are destitute and seeking refuge at a Johannesburg police station following the torching of their homes in a squatter camp, South African police said on Tuesday. “They have about 450 people looking for shelter at the police station and one of their leaders told me they have about […]

Pretoria | Tuesday FORTY-four people were taken to a Pretoria hospital for tests after an anthrax scare at the University of South Africa on Monday, university representative Doreen Gough reported. The first 20 examined all tested negative to the potentially fatal bacteria, as have those exposed to white powder in about a dozen previous scares […]

PROFESSOR Charlotte Searle, doyen of the South African nursing profession, died quietly in her home at Greyton in the Western Cape on Sunday. Her daughter, Lilian Haynes, said Searle, a tireless fighter for nurses’ rights, was 91. A founder member of both the SA Nursing Council and the SA Nursing Association, Searle was also president […]

A 22-YEAR-old woman from Timothy Valley was gang-raped by eight knifemen in Booysens Park on Sunday morning, Port Elizabeth police said on Monday. A policeman said the victim was standing talking to her friend when the eight men approached them and forced them into nearby bushes. They stabbed her male friend three times in the […]

Washington, Afghanistan | Tuesday DENOUNCING Taliban leaders as ”accomplished liars,” US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced that US forces struck tunnelled-out caves, not a village, in an attack last week that caused massive secondary explosions. The Taliban claimed that more than 200 civilians were killed in the attack on the village of Kadam in eastern […]

LANDMINE accidents in South Cuanza province killed eight people and injured 24 during the third quarter of this year, the provincial director of the National Institute for the Removal of Explosive Objects and Devices (INAROEE) said on Monday. Joaquim Antunes said the figures for the period between July and September revealed an increase in four […]

Washington, Afghanistan | Wednesday A US WARPLANE ‘mistakenly’ dropped a 1 000-pound (453kg) bomb on one or more warehouses used by the International Committee of the Red Cross in Kabul. ”Although details are still being investigated, the ICRC warehouses were among a series of warehouses targeted by US forces because the Taliban used them for […]

Cape Town | Tuesday PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki returns to the National Assembly on Wednesday to field questions from MPs, with the official opposition hoping he will use the opportunity to end the controversy over HIV/Aids. Mbeki, who is not an MP, answers questions in Parliament once every quarter. Opposition Leader Tony Leon on Tuesday said […]