Yearly Archives: 2001

SIX children, one as young as four, have been arrested in Senegal for killing a two-year-old boy by stuffing sand in his mouth, police said on Friday. The six boys were arrested on Thursday after the discovery of the young victim’s body partly buried on the outskirts of St. Louis, on the Atlantic coast of […]

THREE miners died and four were injured in a gold mine at Carletonville on Saturday when an earth tremor caused a gallery to cave in, Anglogold mining company reported. Two survivors were hospitalised with serious injuries in the cave in west of Johannesburg. The accident occurred 2 100 metres underground while the victims were carrying […]

Mbabane | Monday KING Mswati III of Swaziland has announced a 15-member team to draft a new constitution within the next 18 months. Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Chief Maweni Simelane made the announcement on state radio late on Saturday. He said international experts would assist in drafting the constitution. The team includes only […]

Johannesburg | Monday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki has stepped up criticism of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, saying his counterpart could no longer expect protection while the political crisis there deepens, a newspaper reported Sunday. “He wants Mugabe to know that he should not expect protection any more. Up to now we have rallied behind […]

Durban | Friday A DEAL between Russian diamond monopoly Alrosa and South African diamond giant De Beers is likely to be delayed until next year, sources in Moscow told the Johannesburg daily newspaper Business Day. The current contract between Alrosa, which is the second-biggest diamond producer in the world, and De Beers for the sale […]

EAST Rand police from all station areas carried out raids on Saturday and Sunday on a crime-prevention mission — and made 354 arrests in the process. Police representative Superintendent Andy Pieke said the crimes of the arrested people related mostly to excessive abuse of alcohol, but also included felonies such rapes, assaults and firearm offences. […]

A POLICE inspector was recovering in the Groote Schuur Hospital after being shot in a hijacking on Sunday, Western Cape police said on Monday. Colin Barendse (34) was shot in the right arm and chest. Barendse, who is stationed in Khayelitsha, was on his way to pick up colleagues for work, when four men stopped […]

Johannesburg | Monday The ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) criticised the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) on Sunday for taking the government to court over the use of Nevirapine. ”The NEC viewed as unfortunate the court case brought against government by the TAC,” an African National Congress statement on the weekend’s NEC meeting said. ”The meeting […]

THE former manager of the Johannesburg Children’s Home, James Frazer (65) was sentenced on Monday to an effective 12 years imprisonment by the Johannesburg Regional Court for indecent assault and raping a child who was under his care. Magistrate JJ Van Vuuren said Frazer knew the girl who came from ”horrendous home circumstances and regarded […]

Johannesburg, countrywide | Monday CHAOS reigned in South Africa over the weekend as dozens more children were raped and abused across the country. A five-month-old baby became one of the latest victims, raped by two men in Joubert Park, Johannesburg. In the Free State, boys aged four, six and 10, were accused of gang-raping their […]