Yearly Archives: 2001

Cape Town | Thursday SOUTH African Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday attributed the gang-rape of a nine-month-old baby to a lack of morality he blamed on apartheid. Zuma said during a debate in the National Assembly on the rape in the small northern township of Louisville that “something was seriously amiss” in the country. […]

Abuja | Thursday THE Nigerian government on Wednesday approved more than $237-million worth of new power transmission projects, the information minister announced. Information Minister Jerry Gana told journalists the projects would improve power supply across the country. The projects will enhance the existing 330 KW and 132 KW networks of the national grid, an official […]

Cape Town | Thursday PARLIAMENT will be briefed on Thursday by the Public Protector Selby Baqwa, National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka and Auditor-General Shauket Fakie about the long-awaited forensic report into the controversial arms deal. National Assembly speaker Dr Frene Ginwala received a copy of the 250-page report on Wednesday afternoon and said […]

Cape Town | Thursday THERE was a conflict of interest in the role played by the department of defence’s chief of acquisitions Chippy Shaik, according to the forensic report on the arms deal. This arose through his brother Shabir’s indirect interests in the Thomson Group and ADS, companies that were awarded contracts for the supply […]

Doha | Thursday DEVELOPING countries emerged with several big gains from a just-concluded World Trade Organisation conference here, winning concessions on key points from the United States and the European Union. Though they came to the Doha meeting deeply sceptical about the chances of making their voices heard, they nonetheless managed to make their presence […]

Cape Town | Tuesday SOUTH Africa will not allow US warships to dock in its ports while the military campaign against Afghanistan continues, a press report on Monday quoted a senior official as saying. Sipho Pityana, the director general of foreign affairs, said South Africa had taken this position as the country “will not collaborate […]

ABOUT 100 children kidnapped by a rebel group in Burundi have managed to escape from their captors, one of the teenagers said on Saturday. “There was shooting between the army and the rebels, they told us to head east, and we took advantage of a moment of inattention to escape,” said Edmond Nsimirimana. Nsimirimana is […]

MARTIN PARRY, Quetta, Pakistan | Wednesday THE Taliban are slaughtering Afghans who try to flee the country, gunning them down in cold blood, refugees who have made it to Pakistan claim. On the outskirts of this southwestern Pakistan town, near the Afghan border, thousands of ”invisible” refugees exist in abject poverty. They have fled because […]

RICHARD THOMPSON, Johannesburg | Wednesday THE South African gold mining industry announced on Wednesday a new best practice guideline for managing cyanide, drawn up in consultation with government, labour, non-governmental organisations and cyanide suppliers. Addressing a press conference in Johannesburg, Bernard Swanepoel –chairman of the gold producers committee of the Chamber of Mines — said […]