AT least 40 people were killed and 70 were wounded in a battle early on Friday in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, between militiamen of warlord Musa Sudi Yalahow and gunmen loyal to Mogadishu Governor Hussein Ali Ahmed. The fighting has been between Yalahow’s Da’ud militiamen, supporting the governor — all belonging to the larger Abgal […]
Loose cannon : Robert Kirby In a quick-draw response to an opinion expressed in this column some four weeks ago, Anita Kleinsmidt of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies – hereinafter referred to as “Cals” – dances intrepidly to the defence of the rights of nannies – hereinafter referred to as “childminders”. In the column […]
Howard Barrell The Heath special investigating unit has been empowered to recover millions of rands stolen from road accident victims by unscrupulous lawyers. Judge Willem Heath’s team will investigate a fraudulent scheme which targets unsophisticated road accident victims. Rogue attorneys have been cheating semi- literate and often indigent clients of large parts of the insurance […]
Friday night : Rudeboy Paul Kicking back after a week of Groove Kamikazes till 10, where to go since Y2K burned down? To get down till break of dawn with beautiful girls and chilled vibes? Nice and easy? Last couple of weeks, I’ve been mellowing out over a Jack Daniels and lime checking out the […]
THE United States government announced on Thursday that it will construct a new embassy in Nairobi to replace the previous one, which was destroyed by a powerful bomb blast on August 7 1998. The US said the demolition of the old embassy building starts on March 22 to pave way for the transformation of the […]
The Walkman is dead. Long live the Sony PlayStation, writes Faisal Islam Lara Croft’s newly released album on Sony Records is not available in the shops. Fans of the electronic games heroine turned virtual pop star will have to hook up their PlayStation to a Sony digital network and download directly to minidisc in seconds. […]
SOUTH Africa will next month host the continent’s largest-ever peacekeeping exercise. South African National Defence Force spokesperson Brigadier-General Brand Haasbroek said in Pretoria on Thursday that the exercise, called Operation Blue Crane, will involve some 4500 personnel from 26 countries, and will cost R20-million. Foreign affairs deputy director Betsie Smith said: “It is the largest […]
Archaic and costly contracts governing the supply of timber to the South African market are being overhauled, writes Lael Bethlehem Over the past 100 years, the state has played a classic developmental role in industrial forestry by stepping in to avert market failure. It has done its job. Today there is a thriving private sector […]
FORMER land commissioner and African National Congress member Joe Seremane has been chosen by the Democratic Party to represent Mmabatho in the North West in June’s election. Seremane, a former Robben Island prisoner, joined the DP six years.
A caring organisation is finding homes for abandoned babies, writes Aaron Nicodemus Ten years ago, the maternity ward at Pietermaritzburg’s Edendale hospital was overflowing with abandoned babies. At one stage it was caring for 64 infants. They lived three or four to a crib and received barely adequate medical care. They were unwanted and unloved. […]