Yearly Archives: 2001

EMSIE FERREIRA, Cape Town | Sunday IF you walk far enough up Table Mountain these days you will hear the noise of chainsaws and falling trees and see sweaty yellow-shirted armies toppling the old pines and bluegums that well-meaning settlers planted for shade and wood. Time has shown the trees to be a menace – […]

RICH people with a history of mental illness are likelier to commit suicide than their poor counterparts, according to a study published in Saturday’s weekly British Medical Journal (BMJ). Researchers at Denmark’s University of Aarhus, exploring the link between social position and psychiatric disorder, trawled through national health archives from 1982 to 1994. The lower […]

KENYAN security forces have seized ivory worth hundreds of thousands of shillings and arrested a senior Pakistani army officer, the state-owned KBC radio reported on Saturday. The radio said that Lieutenant-Colonel Masud Mohamed, a liaison officer attached to the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, was arrested on Thursday at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as […]

FANS of the song sharing service Napster logged on by the tens of thousands for a last minute grab at music they fear a federal court may knock offline. Nearly 10_000 users logged on Saturday to just one of Napster’s more than 100 computer servers sharing nearly 2 million free MP3 song files, according to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Saturday PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s government on Friday seized all privately-held foreign currency in commercial bank accounts, mostly to pay the overdue salaries for state officials based abroad, the central bank announced. A brief statement on state television said that both private and corporate foreign currency accounts (FCA) held at commercial banks […]

THOUSANDS of Ethiopian women took to the streets of the capital Addis Ababa on Saturday to denounce daily acts of violence committed against them. The event was organised by the Ethiopian Women Lawyers’ Association (EWLA), along with 20 other governmental and non-governmental organisations. “It’s not a problem that is unique to Ethiopian women, but it […]

TWO Egyptian ministers are at loggerheads over a proposal by one of them to introduce sex education into the school curriculum, government weekly Akhbar al-Yom reported on Saturday. Culture Minister Faruq Hosni recently proposed to the parliament’s culture committee that sex education be introduced in the schools, but Education Minister Hussein Kamal Bahaeddin objected, it […]

EGYPTIAN customs on Friday foiled an attempt to smuggle in 800 tablets of the male impotence treatment Viagra through Cairo airport, a source said. Egyptian customs foiled an attempt to smuggle in 10_000 Viagra tablets in January at Cairo airport. The Egyptian health ministry authorised the sale of Viagra on prescription in January, after banning […]

ABOUT 120 people were left homeless after a fire gutted 66 shacks at Langa on the Cape Flats on Friday night, a Cape Town disaster management representative said on Saturday. Mark Pluke said the fire began at about 1am and was extinguished an hour and a half later. No one was seriously injured in the […]