Yearly Archives: 2001

JAN HENNOP, Johannesburg | Wednesday FROM the car-park, the museum to one of the most tragic periods in South African history does not look like much. Across the road to the right, there’s a casino. To the left, an amusement park with an array of rides where thrill seekers scream on the way down an […]

THE heads of state and representatives of five African countries decided on Monday to create a regional peacekeeping force for the Central African Republic (CAR) during a summit in the Sudanese capital, officials said. The force will be made up of soldiers from the 16 nations in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa […]

Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has sacked a senior judge of the federal high court for ‘gross misconduct’, the presidency announced late Monday. Obasanjo approved the dismissal of Justice C.C. Nwaogwugwu following complaints of improper conduct in four cases sent before him last year, Obasanjo’s office said in a statement. A panel of inquiry had found […]

Cape Town | Wednesday THREE agencies who are jointly investigating South Africa’s multi-billion dollar arms procurement deal on Tuesday said they could find no evidence to suggest a flaw in the government’s contracting position. The head of the Directorate for Public Prosecutions — one of the agencies involved — said no link between officials still […]

AT least 50 people have died and some 150 were injured in ethnic clashes over the weekend in Ghana’s northeastern region of Bawku, police said on Tuesday. ”A minimum of 50 people have died and at least 150 were injured in the violence which broke out over the weekend,” said a police official, speaking from […]

THE body of an unidentified man was found in the Bronkhorstspruit River in the town on Monday afternoon, Pretoria police said on Tuesday. Inspector Anton Breedt said the man, who was in his 20s, had been shot in the head, arm and chest. He was naked when he was found. – Sapa

A JOHANNESBURG Metropolitan traffic officer committed suicide minutes after he accidentally ran over and killed a 12-year-old boy in Dobsonville, Soweto on Monday, police said. According to Superintendent Norman Ponnusamy, the incident occurred at around 5.30pm when the Midrand-based officer apparently lost control due to bad weather and hit Tshepiso Serobatse who was seated with […]

Accra | Wednesday GHANAIAN mining giant Ashanti Goldfields Company Ltd (AGC) on Tuesday said profits after tax for the third quarter of the current year zoomed 93% to $14,5-million. A statement from AGC said profits after tax in the third quarter a year ago stood at 7.5 million dollars. Sam Jonah, AGC chief executive, meanwhile, […]

JAN RAATH, Harare | Wednesday ZIMBABWE’S Supreme Court on Tuesday declared the government’s controversial land-grabs to be legal, but the sole independent judge on the bench condemned the ruling and said the court should be ”abolished”. Farm union officials immediately advised farmers under pressure from state-backed squatters to abandon their hopes of winning protection from […]

ORBITING between the Earth and the Sun, the Genesis spacecraft has begun collecting particles of solar wind in its giant collector arrays, the US space agency NASA said Monday. ”We expect to start getting particle hits right away. Now we’ve gotten to the real focus of the mission: the start of science,” said Donald Burnett […]