Yearly Archives: 2001

Fiona Macleod South African hunters are allegedly smuggling ivory into the country from Zimbabwe, in an attempt to win credits in hunting trophy competitions. High-ranking members of South Africa’s largest hunting association and one of Zimbabwe’s oldest professional hunting outfits are implicated in the smuggling scam, which allegedly involves the illegal hunting of state-owned elephants […]

Jack Mokobi CROSSFIRE I read with trepidation two opinion columns by Sipho Seepe in the Mail & Guardian, ”Treat Mbeki’s overtures with caution” (January 12 to 18) and ”We are searching for the truth” (January 26 to February 1). As I went through them I was reminded of an incident with the SABC (hopefully the […]

EXACTLY a year after torrential floods caused over R70m worth of damage in the world renowned Kruger National Park, the park unveiled its new Riverside luxury chalets in Skukuza on Wednesday. On February 7 last year floods destroyed roads and infrastructure in the park and washed away chalets along the Sabie River in Skukuza camp. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kinshasa | Thursday IN a sprawling mansion protected by North Korean tanks and heavily armed Zimbabwean soldiers, with a waiting room full of sleepy guards, President Joseph Kabila said on Wednesday he was ready for peace – but on his terms. The young leader, who is in his late 20s, has promised to […]

CLAIRE KEETON, Johannesburg | Thursday SOUTH Africa is the world’s largest producer of mandrax, a sedative often crushed and smoked with cannabis to create a addictive mixture which has now become the country’s “main drug problem”, authorities said on Wednesday. “The immediate evil in South Africa is the ‘white pipe’ (cannabis and mandrax),” the chairman […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday THE South African government is facing legal challenges on two fronts over its moratorium on the release of crime statistics. The Democratic Alliance on Wednesday said it was convinced the moratorium was unconstitutional, while Independent Newspapers announced it was taking Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete to court on the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday FACING legal challenges over the governments moratorium on crime statistics, Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete has now indicated the gag will probably be lifted during the second half of this year. The Democratic Alliance on Wednesday said it was convinced the moratorium was unconstitutional, while Independent Newspapers announced it […]

THE Northern Cape government has ordered residents of Schmidsdrift to take all meat and carcasses of cows that recently died to health authorities after at least 15 people were admitted to hospital after having eaten meat infected with Anthrax. The patients are being kept in an isolation ward with swollen arms and skin lesions. Five […]

A DECISION by the new administration of the debt-ridden Ivory Coast airline Air Afrique to lay off nearly 1 000 employees for two months without pay is “illegal and illegitimate” and should “be scrapped, pure and simple,” a union leader said. The airline management announced that nearly one-quarter of the airline’s 4 126-strong workforce would […]