Yearly Archives: 2001

Own Correspondent, Wellington | Saturday SCIENTISTS have discovered penguin chicks fouled with what appeared to be oil close to an abandoned US Antarctic research station. The oiled Adelie penguin chicks were found at Cape Hallett on a recent mission close to the abandoned US research station, Emma Waterhouse, a scientist with the research group Antarctic […]

GRIFFIN SHEA, Caia, Mozambique | Sunday THE Zambezi River, which has already swallowed a huge swathe of central Mozambique, threatens to submerge a town of 41 000 people as dams upstream are being forced to release more water into the river, officials said on Saturday. “The situation does not look very, very good up along […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, AFP, Johannesburg | Sundday PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has conveyed his “deep concern” about the Zimbabwean situation and has urged the leadership to refocus its attention on stabilising the country, according to sources close to the presidency, The Sunday Independent reports. “In the light of the more recent excesses over the judiciary and foreign […]

SOUTH African retailer Shoprite has unveiled a 16% increase in headline per share earnings for the half year to the end of December and said its African and Middle East expansion plans were on track. Headline earnings per share rose to 26.1 cents, despite the constraints of higher fuel costs as well as depressed retail […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Saturday SOUTH Africa’s ex-corruption buster Judge Willem Heath may have been poisoned three years ago, according to his wife, Marita Heath. In an interview on Friday, Heath expanded on a comment to a local women’s magazine, Fair Lady, that she and several doctors believed her husband was probably poisoned in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Saturday THE South African government recommitted itself on Friday to holding the initial public offering (IPO) of the country’s telephone monopoly Telkom this year. “This commitment was articulated in very clear terms by the president in his state of the nation address and the minister of finance when he delivered […]

A 13-year-old Ethiopian girl escaped forced marriage with a 39-year-old man after she ran away and complained to the police, an Ethiopian press agency reported on Friday. The girl was slated to marry the father of three on February 25, according to the Walta Information Centre, considered close to the Ethiopian authorities. Local police said […]

A BULL elephant that escaped from the Kruger National Park has been shot dead along the N4 highway at Hectorspruit because it was disrupting traffic. The animal had to be shot when it didn’t respond to attempts to chase it back into the bush. The Mpumalanga Parks Board alerted when Hectorspruit residents reported one or […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday MORE than one billion rand ($125m) will be invested in rebuilding Alexandra, Johannesburg’s most overcrowded township as part of government’s urban renewal plan, a housing official announced on Friday. The development of the township, scene of violence last week linked to forced removals of squatters, is already underway, Gauteng provincial […]

Former president Nelson Mandela received the Life Time Award from the first Soweto Awards in Johannesburg on Saturday night.