No image available
/ 28 February 2001
A DOCTOR who served under Dr Wouter Basson testified in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday that the apartheid chemical warfare expert injected a suspected African National Congress (ANC) member during an interrogation. Basson has denied using chemicals during an interrogation. However Dr Phil Meyer, who was in charge of the casualty department at 1 […]
No image available
/ 27 February 2001
PRESIDENT Jose Eduardo dos Santos has declared his support for Pierre Falcone, the man accused by the French authorities of having organised illegal arms shipments to Angola, saying the Frenchman had helped “safeguard democracy” in the war-torn southern African country. Dos Santos, speaking for the first time on the controversial arms deal in which Jean-Christophe […]
No image available
/ 27 February 2001
A GROUP of dissident Algerian soldiers claims that 47 Algerian officers were killed in military barracks south of Algiers at the weekend for refusing to “participate in crimes against civilians.” The Algerian Movement for Free Officers (MAOL) said the officers were killed on Sunday at the Boughar barracks, 150km south of Algiers. The group, which […]
No image available
/ 26 February 2001
FORMER President Nelson Mandela has launched an astonishing attack on South Africa?s black elite, including members of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), who he says are ”arrogant” and are widening the gap between race groups. In an interview published in a Sunday newspaper, the former president said he was particularly concerned about the growing […]
No image available
/ 21 February 2001
WOMEN and children are increasingly turning to drug abuse in Africa, where the scourge is fuelled by war, poverty and crime, according to a UN report issued this week. Drug abuse is on the rise across the continent, as illicit substances become cheaper and cheaper in a region which has traditionally served as a transit […]
No image available
/ 14 February 2001
CANADA should compensate South Africa for “looting” the country?s doctors, says the head of the SA Medical Research Council, Malegapuru William Makgoba. Under an international “code of ethics” advocated by Dr Makgoba, rich countries like Canada would be required to pay for every doctor they recruit in South Africa. “It’s a new form of looting […]
No image available
/ 14 February 2001
KENYAN President Daniel arap Moi has launched a scathing attack on donors to the east African country, accusing them of creating a culture of corruption. The comments come a week before Moi meets World Bank President James Wolfenson and International Monetary Fund head Horst Koehler at a regional heads of state meeting in the Tanzanian […]
No image available
/ 11 February 2001
A court recording of former president Nelson Mandela’s last speech before he was sentenced to life imprisonment will on Sunday be released.
No image available
/ 5 February 2001
TIENIE Wolmarans, husband of the South African woman sentenced to hang in Botswana for the murder of his first wife, is convinced of her innocence and is starting a hunt to find and convict the man he believes is guilty of the crime. Wolmarans is bitter that the Botswana government seems uninterested in further investigations […]
No image available
/ 1 February 2001
THE sister of a victim killed in a 1996 Nigerian plane crash that claimed 143 lives has told a human rights panel that the former military ruler Sani Abacha ordered the bombing of the aircraft. An official investigation into the November 7, 1996 crash of the Aviation Development Company (ADC) plane ruled out sabotage at […]