Yearly Archives: 2001

IVORIAN police on Wednesday released 46 employees of a quasi-public company after detaining them overnight for staging a sit-in to demand the immediate payment of nine months’ salary arrears. Youan Gala Bi, general secretary of the trade union of Motoragri, a joint venture between the Ivorian government and the private sector, said that he and […]

SIAMESE twins were born in the Port Elizabeth provincial hospital on Wednesday, SABC television news reported. The public broadcaster said the twins were flown to Cape Town for further examination. They are joined at the waist, and a Livingstone hospital paediatrician was quoted saying the twins have separate organs. The exact cause of this kind […]

Kabul | Tuesday HUNDREDS of US Marines backed by US air power were poised on Tuesday to move in for the kill on the last major pocket of Taliban resistance and the forces of terror suspect Osama bin Laden. The US move came as American warplanes and troops of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance struggled for […]

Several controversies in the new Unemployment Insurance Bill have disappointed the Congress of South African Trade Unions Glenda Daniels The new Unemployment Insurance Bill should become an Act next year in April. But while it proposes some progressive reforms, labour is unhappy that at present it excludes public service workers and society’s most vulnerable sector […]

Sydney | Thursday THE takeover battle for Australia’s Normandy Mining Ltd intensified on Thursday when South Africa’s AngloGold added a cash component to its existing US$1,66-billion scrip offer. The South African giant moved to challenge US-based Newmont Mining Corp’s 3,8-billion dollar (US$1,97-billion) cash and scrip offer for Normandy, which is Australia’s biggest gold producer. Earlier […]

STATISTICS show that the reported incidence of child rape and attempted rape increased by 8,5 percent from 1996 to 2000, says Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete. In a written reply to a question tabled in the National Assembly by African Christian Democratic Party leader Kenneth Meshoe, Tshwete said there were 19 755 reported cases […]

THE Nigerian government said Wednesday it signed a major deepwater oil production sharing accord with several foreign companies. The agreement is the first to be signed between state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and oil prospecting companies since Nigeria’s deepwater concessions were allocated last year via an open bid system, it said. The production sharing accord […]

THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission will dissolve at the end of March next year, chief executive Martin Coetzee said on Wednesday. He said the head office in Cape Town would complete its work late in December, but a few staffers would remain to finalise the report. President Thabo Mbeki earlier this month issued a proclamation […]

Bonn | Tuesday AFGHANISTAN’S complex patchwork of ethnic, military and political groups gets down to hard talking in Germany on Tuesday, for UN-sponsored talks seen as a historic opportunity to end decades of bloodshed. Representatives of the former king, the powerful Northern Alliance and two other groups are under intense pressure to agree to transitional […]

ALTOGETHER 170 police officers were charged with contravening the Domestic Violence Act during the past about two years, according to Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete. In a written reply to a question by African Christian Democratic Party leader Kenneth Meshoe tabled in the National Assembly, Tshwete said 11 of them had already been convicted. […]