Yearly Archives: 2001

Pretoria | Monday SOUTH African multi-national gold producer AngloGold showed a headline earnings increase of 19% (R637-million) in its report for the quarter ended September 30, released on Wednesday morning. This was the third successive improved quarter. The equivalent US dollar increase in headline earnings was 15%, or US76-million. This increase was before unrealised losses […]

Washington | Monday US Muslim leaders have called on the administration of President George W. Bush to halt its bombing campaign against Afghanistan, in a marked departure from their earlier stance. A broad coalition of Muslim groups on the weekend urged the White House to ”urgently reassess its action in Afghanistan, and to cease the […]

Pretoria | Wednesday ONE of the three Mozambican immigrants who had dogs set on them by East Rand police last year filed an assault and abduction complaint after an incident on Monday night, SABC radio news reported on Wednesday. Sylvester Khosa said he was kidnapped and assaulted by four white men who identified themselves as […]

A nine-month-old baby that was raped and indecently assaulted, allegedly by six men at the weekend, was in a stable condition in hospital on Tuesday, Northern Cape police said. Six Upington men, aged between 24 and 66, appeared in the Kimberley Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges of raping and indecently assaulting the baby in […]

COLOMBIA is taking additional security measures to ensure it will not become a transit point for heroin from Afghanistan destined for users in the United States, a police official said on Monday. ”It is possible that narcotraffickers could use existing smuggling routes to try to bring heroin from Afghanistan to Mexico and the United States. […]

A TWO-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his father at their home in Bekkersdal, Westonaria on Sunday evening, West Rand police reported on Monday. Captain Paula Nothnagel said Nkosikhulu Qulu (37) put his firearm underneath a pillow in his bedroom around 6.45pm while preparing to go to bed. The boy took the firearm and pointed […]

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF), often critical of Malawi’s poor fiscal management, has told the impoverished southern African nation to shut down loss-making parastatals, saying they were a drain on government resources. ”Trimming the public sector and reducing dependence on the budget would check problems of fiscal indiscipline which have affected expenditure control and fuelled […]

Bisho | Wednesday IF the Ciskei soldiers had followed standard procedure they would not have fired without warning on ANC marchers at Bisho in September 1992, businessman Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday. Ramaphosa, who was African National Congress secretary-general at the time of September 7, 1992 march on Bisho, was giving evidence to the Bisho […]

FIFTEEN East London postal workers were admitted to the Frere Hospital for observation on Tuesday after coming into contact with a white substance found in an envelope while sorting mail. The hospital’s medical superintendent Dr Eswari Rajeev said all 15 were placed in the isolation ward for observation before being discharged they were found to […]

Washington | Tuesday TERRORISTS may attack targets in the United States or US interests abroad ”over the next week,” US Attorney General John Ashcroft warned on Monday, putting US law enforcement and the public on the highest state of alert. ”The administration has concluded, based on information developed, that there may be additional terrorist attacks […]