Yearly Archives: 2001

ALGERIAN rebels have slashed the throats of 25 villagers, including 16 children and teenagers and four women, in the worst massacre in Algeria this year. The massacre occurred at El Guetaibia village, 220km west of Algiers, on Saturday night, and brought the number of people killed in Algeria to more than 90 this month. More […]

BEN HIRSCHLER, Davos, Switzerland | Monday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki has led a group of political leaders in slamming globalisation for having failed the world’s poor, and called for reform of global institutions to protect the poverty-stricken. Echoing street protests outside the World Economic Forum, Mbeki condemned the impoverishment of millions caught in Africa’s […]

SOUTH African markets face a barrage of December economic data this week, including delayed inflation figures which are expected to provide clues to the outlook for the direction of interest rates. Consumer data on Tuesday and producer price figures on Wednesday are likely to command most of the attention, although a policy meeting of the […]

SIX people have been injured in three separate bomb attacks in the Ugandan capital Kampala. Police said the home-made bombs all went off nearly at the same time, at about 8 pm. The first two bombs went off near the city’s main bus terminus while a third exploded in a southern suburb. Among those injured […]

TWO Witbank men, aged 24 and 21, have been arrested in connection with having sex with schoolgirls younger than 16. Johan Theodorus Marx, 24, and Arnold Steven Wright, 21, were not asked to plead in the Witbank Magistrate’s Court. They were arrested after police responded to a tip-off that the men allegedly had relationships with […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki is expected to visit Kinshasa on Tuesday to meet the new leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a foreign ministry representative said on the weekend. Mbeki, who is in Switzerland to attend the annual economic summit in Davos, will make a stopover in […]

A NORTHERN Province community that invaded a military base two years ago has threatened to re-invade it after failing to get a response to a land claim they lodged five years ago. Seven of the 1 000 Gumbu community members who marched to the Madimbo Corridor military base in September 1999 were arrested and are […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Allahabad, India | Saturday THE Dalai Lama, the supreme spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, has urged Christians and Muslims to accept that there is more than one valid religion. “Christianity and Islam have a very strong concept of one religion. I think that should change. I hope that will change,” he told reporters […]

A SMALL group of demonstrators gathered outside the Belfast Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga when a local businessman, his friend and a widow appeared on various charges of child sex abuse. The demonstrators placed placards against the court’s fence, some of which read: “No bail for child abusers”. The widow is accused of forcing her son, […]