Yearly Archives: 2001

EGYPTIAN archeologists discovered a Pharaonic stele bearing the image of a sun goddess near the Karnak temple in Luxor, 480 kilometers south of Cairo. “The team discovered the stele of the goddess Suwas a week ago when they were cleaning the temple of the goddess Mout,” the council’s director Gaballah Ali Gaballah said. Suwas is […]

Pretoria | Wednesday PLANS of a plot to oust South African President Thabo Mbeki proved to be untrue, the country’s safety and security minister said on Tuesday, in an about-face since the allegations surfaced in April. Steve Tshwete, who publicly accused three senior African National Congress members of plotting to oust Mbeki, told journalists that […]

A man appeared in the Upington Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on charges of attempting to rape a 101-year-old woman, Northern Cape police said on Wednesday. Inspector Chantel Manuel said the incident occurred in the town around 5.30pm on Saturday. The woman’s granddaughter arrived at home and found the man, who visits her grandmother regularly in […]

QUANTITY Surveyor Professor Raymond Nnaemeka Nkado is the first black dean at the University of the Witwatersrand with his appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment. Nkando said the post ”affords me an opportunity to positively influence the lives of a substantial number of people through effective leadership.” Nkado, who […]

A nine-year-old girl was raped at her home in Mshenguville in Munsieville, Krugersdorp earlier this week, police said on Wednesday. The attack happened when the girl’s 33-year-old mother left her alone and asleep at the house when she went to visit her friend at 7pm on Monday, Inspector Yolande Bouwer said. The child woke up […]

Queenstown | Thursday A YOUNG initiate died at the Cecilia Makiwane Hospital (CMH) in Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday following a botched circumcision. Two other initiates, who are being treated at the Butterworth Hospital, lost their penises this week after developing gangrene. At least 29 initiates are receiving treatment at various hospitals around […]

Johannesburg| Thursday THE South African fiscal authorities’ bid to clamp down on forex speculators has backfired, sending the rand to a record low of R11 to the dollar on Wednesday, traders said. A trader said the currency hit R10,992/$ – when some dealers would have paid more than R11 – before improving to R10,82 by […]

NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday blasted university teachers as lazy, saying they never do a full day’s work, as lecturers went on strike for more pay. Visiting the Nigerian Law School in Abuja, the angry president praised the centre’s students and lecturers for ignoring a strike call by the university teachers union, known as […]

Abidjan | Tuesday AIR France is suspending flights to Abidjan in Ivory Coast in retaliation for a go-slow by staff of the African airline Air Afrique against the French carrier, airline sources said on Monday. The work to rule by unions of airport staff has targeted Air France flights to 11 African countries to force […]