Yearly Archives: 2001

Quetta | Thursday A SHEPHERD stumbled across some 50 unexploded US cluster bombs in a mountainous region of Pakistan, local police officials said. The bombs were found in a remote area 70 kilometres east of Kharan, in Pakistan’s southern province of Baluchistan. The site is 100 kilometres south of the Afghan border and is in […]

Dushanbe | Wednesday OUSTED Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani will return to Kabul on Wednesday to pronounce himself the leader of all territory captured by the anti-Taliban opposition, a senior Afghan envoy here said. ”He will lead the provinces liberated from the Taliban and also head the task of freeing provinces now under the control of […]

ISRAELI peace activists and Palestinian officials will meet in South Africa next week to discuss ideas for an Israeli-Palestinian settlement at a conference to be chaired by President Thabo Mbeki. ”Mbeki will chair the meeting as part of the president and South Africa’s role in continuing the search for peace in the Middle East,” presidential […]

SASOLBURG businessman Piet Odendaal is expected to appeal against his seven-year jail sentence in the Appeal Court in Bloemfontein on Monday. Odendaal was last week convicted of culpable homicide and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for the death of employee Mosoko Rampuru. Rampuru’s body was dragged behind his bakkie through the streets of Sasolburg for […]

London | Thursday SPECIAL agents in the United States probing relatives of Saudi-born terror suspect Osama bin Laden before September 11 were told to back off soon after George W. Bush became president, the BBC reported on Tuesday. The BBC’s Newsnight current affairs programme said that Bush at one point had a number of connections […]

New York | Wednesday AVIATION authorities said an initial analysis of the cockpit voice recorder from the American Airlines crash here showed the pilots knew they were in trouble within two minutes of takeoff. ”There are several comments suggesting loss of control of the aircraft” two minutes and two seconds after Flight 587 began rolling […]

THE Swazi government has announced tough new laws to crackdown on money-laundering. The new Money-Laundering Act will be discussed at an international conference on the subject to open at the Royal Swazi Convention Centre in Mbabane on Monday. The new law aims to net businesses, banks or individuals that are engaged in money-laundering or are […]

Kabul | Tuesday NORTHERN Alliance security forces vowed Tuesday to restore order in Kabul after a dramatic advance into the Afghan capital through scenes of devastation caused by US bombing of Taliban positions. The opposition United Front sent police units and other security forces into Kabul early on Tuesday amid reports of sporadic shooting in […]

TWO men arrested for trafficking of body parts are expected to appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Monday. The suspects, a morgue worker and another man, were arrested at the Gale Street mortuary in Durban on Friday by the anti-corruption unit and the elite crime fighting unit, the Scorpions during an undercover operation. The […]

Cape Town | Monday TONY Yengeni has sold the luxury 4X4 Mercedes at the centre of corruption claims linked to the controversial arms deal – and splashed out on a R330 000 Volvo convertible. The Sunday Times reported that the former ANC Chief Whip was spotted a week ago cruising Cape Town’s Atlantic seaboard in […]