Yearly Archives: 2001

PHILLIP NKOSI, Nelspruit | Monday MPUMALANGA is housing the poorest of its poor in tiny, dangerously constructed houses that have already cost the taxpayer R30m – and is preparing to pay dodgy developers an additional R21m despite warnings that the houses have been deliberately built with cheap sub-standard materials. Many of the 2_923 houses don’t […]

SOUTH Africa is to send helicopters, transport planes and medical supplies to help neighbour Mozambique battle floods that have already killed 41 people and are threatenening to displace up to 100_000 more. The SA army will send five helicopters, two transport planes and a Casa aircraft for use in the humanitarian operation. Food, medical supplies […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Arusha | Monday A MEETING of African heads of state to discuss Burundi’s peace process has been overshadowed by the launch of a major offensive on Bujumbura by Hutu rebels, which killed at least 15 people. The attack came on the eve of a summit intended to thrash out a list of people […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT | Sunday NAPSTER, the Internet’s most popular song trading site, on Friday petitioned a federal appeals court to review its earlier ruling that threatens to shutter the company. The filing was made in the face of a looming lower court injunction that could shut down the company. The Redwood City, California company filed […]

PRESIDENT Daniel arap Moi has met with leaders of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank to discuss Kenya’s fragile economy, but there was no sign that the IMF would resume much-needed aid payments to the east African country in the wake of the talks. The IMF funds were frozen in January due to […]

MORE than 250 people committed suicide in Zimbabwe last year after being diagnosed HIV positive. Police said the 251 HIV suicides accounted for more than half the 451 suicides reported nationally last year. Sociologists say the suicides were most likely a result of the stigma attached to having the disease. HIV/Aids deaths claim some 2 […]

WIVES of Ugandan soldiers who have returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with new brides have formed an association to fight off the “intruders”. The leader of the new organisation, the wife of a senior Ugandan army officer who refused to be named, said they want President Yoweri Museveni to compensate them for […]

VISITING British shadow foreign secretary Francis Maude has called for Zimbabwe to be suspended from the Commonwealth for what he called the repeated flouting of basic rules of law. Maude, from Britain’s opposition Conservative party, said Britain should lead the international community in trying to normalise the political situation in its former colony. “It’s quite […]

A BURGLAR who was robbed of his loot turned to the police for help, only to be arrested for his own crime. Leonard Mabunda, 21, was found guilty in the Nelspruit District Court of breaking into a house twice in April last year and stealing goods worth R60 000. While he was ferrying the goods […]

DARREN SCHUETTLER, Johannesburg | Monday AILING South African steel group Iscor has urged investors to reject what it called an “opportunistic” bid by two major shareholders to shake up Iscor’s board and remove its executive chairman. Anglovaal Mining Ltd (Avmin) and the Industrial Development Corp (IDC), which together hold 26% of Iscor, last week proposed […]