Yearly Archives: 2001

Algiers | Tuesday THE Algerian government on Tuesday put the official death toll after violent storms ravaged Algeria at the weekend at 579, but the country’s press said thousands may have been killed in Algiers alone. Rescuers continued to search for bodies trapped under tonnes of rubble in the low income district of Bab El […]

Former South African president Nelson Mandela made a brief visit to Tripoli on Sunday during which he met Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi.

Johannesburg | Wednesday SOUTH Africa’s Oppenheimer dynasty is planning to hand over some of the 140 000 hectares of farmland that the Anglo American Corporation owns in Zimbabwe for settlement by impoverished black farmers, a representative for the family said on Tuesday. The Harare-based privately owned newspaper the Daily News reported Tuesday that the government […]

SEVEN Egyptians were ordered on Sunday to stand trial in state security court on charges of using explosives to dig for Pharaonic treasures and sell them illegally, judicial sources said. After shadowing foreign archeologists in the area of Al-Koreimat, 100 kilometers south of Cairo, the group allegedly used explosives to dig a hole 15 meters […]

THE trial of three members of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) who escaped from the Cape High Court on October 4 but were later recaptured will continue on Wednesday. Ebrahim Jeneker, and brothers Abdullah and Ismail Maansdorp escaped from the holding cells of the Cape Town High Court during their trial on 138 charges […]

JUSTINE GERARDY, Johannesburg | Tuesday EVERY exam was the same. An inexplicable illness would strike, leaving her unable to write and unable to explain why. No one could give a reason. Until an igqirha (traditional healer) told her that a witch whose daughter had dropped out of school did not want her to write her […]

An 18000-ton scrapped tanker adrift in Algoa Bay could pose a potential danger to shipping, Smit Pentamarine salvage director Dave Main said on Saturday. He said the situation was currently under control as both the company’s salvage tugs, Wolraad Woltemade and Gondwana, were put on stand-by. Every effort was made to ensure that The Era […]

KIDNEYS, livers, corneas and other body parts harvested from executed Chinese prisoners increasingly are making their way to patients in the United States, shortening a wait for organs that otherwise could stretch on for years, the New York Times reported on Sunday. According to the newspaper, more transplantable organs are available in China because more […]

Cape Town | Thursday A CARGO compartment smoke warning light and landing gear that failed to retract were among reasons that forced a total of 13 South African Airways planes to return to the airport after take-off during the first five months of this year. This is according to Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe, who […]