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/ 8 February 2001
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 […]
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/ 8 February 2001
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 […]
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/ 8 February 2001
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 […]
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/ 8 February 2001
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 […]
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/ 8 February 2001
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 […]
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/ 8 February 2001
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 […]
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/ 8 February 2001
SOMEONE has to serve these poor people in the rural communities. They need our help more than people in the urban areas and they are so appreciative for the little they have and receive,” says nurse Maggie Ntikinca, deputy manager of the SA Transnet-Phelophepa Health Care Train health clinic. “Phelophepa” means good, clean health – […]
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/ 7 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday SOUTH African National Parks has resumed a programme to cull exotic Himalayan mountain goats (tahrs) on Table Mountain in defiance of a direct request by the office of the public protector, Selby Baqwa. Baqwa’s office said the parks board had acted despite a direct request that any such decision […]
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/ 7 February 2001
AIDS in South Africa – which claimed about 200_000 lives in 2000 – and urbanisation have nearly halved the country?s growth rate between 1996 and 2006, according to a new report. The combination of the two factors reduced annual population growth to about 1.35%, said Carl van Aardt of the Bureau of Market Research. Aids […]
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/ 7 February 2001
AGRICULTURAL unions and South African opposition parties have slammed Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana?s warning to farmers who abuse their workers that they must “adapt or die” as hate speech which could spark more rural killings. Mdladlana made the remark – shown on SABC television – while visiting farms in the Northern Cape to inspect labour […]