Yearly Archives: 2001

THE man accused of shooting a motorcyclist in an apparent road rage killing in August will appear briefly in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Owen Kroeger is on R5 000 bail following the shooting of Morare Matekane, who damaged the mirror of Kroeger’s car in a minor accident in central Johannesburg. A report of […]

Kisangani | Monday MEDIA watchdog Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres, RSF) on Sunday called on rebel leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo to release an imprisoned journalist and begin respecting freedom of the press. RSF wrote Azarias Ruberwa, secretary general of the Rwandan-backed Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), asking him ”to liberate this […]

Lusaka | Thursday AFRICA’S first free trade area (FTA), launched a year ago by some nine countries of the 21-member Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), has been a success, an official said on Wednesday. ”Trade and investment has increased in the Comesa region after the FTA came into effect,” said Sebiso Ngwenya, […]

JENNI EVANS, Johannesburg | Monday WINNIE Madikizela-Mandela will be told to stop the reconstruction of her businesses which were demolished last month and will be assigned an inspector to help her comply with bylaws to resolve the matter, Johannesburg’s mayoral representative said on Monday. The tavern, club and tuck shop outside her house were demolished […]

EMMANUEL GIROUD, Bujumbura | Saturday BURUNDI’S new government, aimed at giving ethnic Hutus a greater share of power, faces a mammoth task in ending fighting, easing mistrust and creating a more balanced army currently dominated by minority Tutsis. A three-year interim administration was set up on Thursday in a major step toward stopping eight years […]

RESCUE workers searched on Thursday for a second day looking for 20 people missing after an accident on the Nile river in southern Egypt, which left two confirmed dead. The accident happened late on Tuesday when two motor boats, one empty and the other carrying around 30 people, collided near a village in the region […]

GOUDINI | Sunday A MEETING of more than 1 000 Democratic Alliance supporters in a packed hall at the Goudini Spa, near Worcester, on Saturday, unanimously supported a motion calling for the NNP federal council’s recent decision to pull out of the DA to be rescinded. The delegates — largely from the New National Party […]

PRESIDENT George W. Bush on Thursday extended US sanctions on Sudan by one year, citing “continuing concern” about Khartoum’s record on terrorism and human rights. The punitive measures were imposed on Sudan in November 1997 by then US president Bill Clinton. In late September, the UN Security Council lifted UN sanctions imposed on Sudan after […]

A PREGNANT woman sentenced to death by stoning by an Islamic court in Nigeria has fled her home. Safiya Tungar-Tudu (33) was sentenced to death by stoning after being convicted of adultery by an Islamic court in the northwestern town of Gwadabawa, in Sokoto State, northwest Nigeria, on October 9. Earlier this week, she disappeared […]

TWO eastern Free State men will appear in the Tweeling Magistrate’s Court on Thursday in connection with the rape of their 14-month-old niece earlier in the week, police said. Sergeant Loraine Kalp on Wednesday said the men, 34 and 37, were arrested on Tuesday after the mother found the baby crying and saw blood on […]