UGANDAN President Yoweri Museveni has warned the United States against “arrogance and behaving as a bully” in its fight against terrorism and encouraged Washington to instead work towards solving the Palestinian question and attaining democracy for the whole world. “The US should not be tempted into using dirty methods at all that cause unnecessary tension […]

Pretoria | Thursday THE government on Wednesday said it was not deliberately delaying the release of the Medical Research Council’s (MRC) report on Aids mortality in South Africa. ”The MRC report is not a government report and therefore the unfounded allegations in the media implying deliberate attempts on the part of government to delay the […]

Washington | Thursday A coalition of consumer groups Wednesday charged that the new Microsoft Windows XP operating system would ”extend and deepen” the firm’s monopoly power and urged antitrust officials to focus on the software in the pending federal court case. ”Windows XP advances the company’s illegal anti-competitive practices and harms the nation’s consumers,” said […]

Kano | Thursday ELEVEN boys aged 3 to 11 died and 21 were injured on Wednesday when the wall of a mud-built Quranic school in the ancient northern Nigerian city of Kano collapsed, authorities said. The wall was apparently weakened after heavy overnight rain and fell into an open yard being used by the pupils […]

Pretoria | Thursday APARTHEID era chemical warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson on Wednesday closed his defence case without calling any further witnesses. Basson has spent more than two months in the witness box, defending himself on 46 charges, ranging from murder and drug trafficking to fraud. He flatly denied that he had ever been asked […]

OSAMA bin Laden is an ”evil man” with ”evil goals” that will be thwarted by the United States’ new anti-terrorist operations, US President George W Bush said on Wednesday. Speaking to media at a meeting with leaders of the US Muslim community at the White House, Bush also indicated he no longer thought of bin […]

Johannesburg | Thursday TEN disease-free buffalo have been bought by Gauteng as part of a provincial plan for a new game reserve that will include the ”Big Five” — lion, elephant, leopard, rhinoceros and buffalo. The buffalo have been bought from the Willem Prinsloo game reserve in the Free State for R1,2-million. The province has […]

JAMES REGAN, Sydney | Wednesday SOUTH Africa’s Gold Fields Ltd said on Wednesday a decline in the global supply of gold was looming as mine activity wanes and some central banks exhaust their sales. ”It is coming clear there is a mine supply slowdown coming,” Gold Fields chairman and chief executive Chris Thompson said. ”It’s […]