Yearly Archives: 2001

Midrand | Thursday LOCAL businesses should be applauded for their invaluable contributions to the economy, President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday evening. ”I think we are all coming to understand what we mean to be as South Africans, as contributors to the prosperity of this nation,” he said at the President’s Award for Export Achievement […]

Bisho | Thursday FORMER Ciskei military commander Colonel Vakele Mkosana’s instruction to soldiers to arm themselves with hand grenades during a march by the African National Congress in 1992 was ”unusual” as the weapons were not often used in densely populated areas, the Bisho High Court heard on Wednesday. Mkosana and Mzamile Gonya are facing […]

ERIKA DE BEER, Pretoria | Thursday SOUTH African company Aerosud on Wednesday signed a contract with Boeing to manufacture parts for a range of its aircraft. This means Boeing jetliners with locally manufactured components will be flying from as far afield as Singapore, Texas and Europe. The South African Airways fleet would also have these […]

Kabul | Monday THE Northern Alliance was under mounting pressure on Monday to form a broad-based government in Afghanistan as the last two major pockets of Taliban resistance in the country were reported negotiating their surrender. But international interest seemed to draw increasingly testy responses from the new masters of Kabul, flush from a series […]

Peshawar | Wednesday FOUR journalists killed in a roadside ambush in Afghanistan had been stoned as well as shot to death, a Red Cross official said Wednesday as the bodies arrived in Pakistan. The four bodies were carried to the Torkham border post from the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad in two vehicles of the […]

Harare | Wednesday TWO Zimbabwe opposition members told a court in the country’s second city of Bulawayo that they were tortured to confess to the murder of a ruling party stalwart, press reports said on Wednesday. War veteran leader Cain Nkala was abducted from his Bulawayo home in early November by unknown gunmen. His body […]

Cape Town | Wednesday SOUTH Africa’s apartheid-era New National Party (NNP) and the ruling African National Congress on Tuesday unveiled a new deal which would see the two former foes work together on provincial and national levels. In a joint statement, the two parties said the power-sharing arrangement in the Western Cape province would allow […]

EGYPTIAN police rounded up members of a Cairo-based Pakistani-Egyptian ring, supplying fake European Union entry visas to Pakistanis. A source at the airport said that the visas, using forged stamps from European embassies in Islamabad, were sold for $5 000 each. The gang was broken up after investigators, who received a tip-off from an unspecified […]

THE IMF and the World Bank have agreed to provide Tanzania with a total three billion dollars in debt relief under an initiative for the world’s most indebted nations, the two organizations announced on Tuesday. Tanzania is the fourth to qualify for debt reduction under the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s Heavily Indebted Poor […]