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/ 28 January 2004
A South African has reportedly been killed in a suicide car bombing at a Baghdad hotel in Iraq early on Wednesday. At least three other people also died in the blast. The bomb exploded in front of the Shaheen hotel, which is frequented by Westerners, and destroyed the front of the hotel building.
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/ 21 January 2004
The <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> was on Tuesday hit by a new e-mail worm that is quickly spreading around the world. The worm, called Bagle or Beagle, was sent via the <i>M&G Online</i>’s newsletter list. It spread rapidly over the weekend, with several security firms issuing bulletins on it on Monday.
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/ 20 January 2004
National prosecutions head Bulelani Ngcuka ”probably never” acted as an agent for the apartheid government, the Hefer Commission of Inquiry has found. ”I have come to the conclusion that he probably never at any time before 1994 acted as an agent for a state security agency,” retired judge Joos Hefer said in his final report, made public on Tuesday.
Hefer report critical of Zuma response
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/ 14 January 2004
Another journalist and a senior media executive have been arrested in Zimbabwe. Raphael Khumalo, general manager of the privately owned Zimbabwe Independent, and reporter Itai Dzamara were arrested on Wednesday, Linda Cook, Khumalo’s lawyer, told the Mail & Guardian Online.
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/ 13 January 2004
Iden Wetherell, editor of the privately owned Zimbabwe Independent, says he stands by the story that landed him and two reporters in jail for the weekend. The men were arrested after printing a report that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe had ”commandeered” an Air Zimbabwe plane to go on holiday.
The African Christian Democratic Party on Thursday criticised the SABC for its intention to broadcast the African National Congress’s election manifesto, and the National Action urged President Thabo Mbeki to ”personally see to it” that the SABC does not broadcast the speech he is to make this weekend at the launch of the manifesto.
President Thabo Mbeki’s spokesperson has told the Mail & Guardian Online that media reports saying the president’s motorcade was involved in a shooting incident in the Haitian capital during the country’s independence celebrations on Thursday are ”without foundation”.
Protest, celebration in Haiti
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/ 27 December 2003
The devastating earthquake that hit the south-eastern Iranian city of Bam on Friday left 20Â 000 people dead and 30Â 000 injured, according to a provisional toll issued by the Interior Ministry, Iranian state television reported on Saturday. Earlier reports said 20Â 000 were still buried under rubble.
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/ 8 November 2003
Johnnic Communications, publishers of the Sunday Times said in a statement on Saturday that the editor of the Sunday Times, Mathatha Tsedu, has been fired. Tsedu, who is also Sanef chairperson, has been editor of newspaper for just over a year.
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/ 29 September 2003
Deputy President Jacob Zuma has reacted to media reports about a "secret briefing" that the National Director for Public Prosecutions, Bulelani Ngcuka, had with black editors in July this year, saying Ngcuka imparted "untruthful" information about him "in a very malicious and despicable manner".