Two Zambians arrested last month for possession of weapons-grade uranium now face charges of espionage, their lawyer said on Monday. Kelvin Bwalya said Francis Changufu and Andrew Milambo were charged on Monday after the state withdrew the earlier charge of being in ”possession of dangerous substances”.
It’s a tale of delays, missed deadlines and the grinding problems that can dog large-scale infrastructure projects. Work to connect electricity lines between Malawi and Mozambique was scheduled to have been completed by 2002. The deadline has now been shifted to 2005, however -– and officials aren’t ruling out 2006.
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News reports of African National Congress leader Thabo Mbeki’s jocular remarks in Rustenburg on Monday that he would ”beat” his sister if she supported the African Christian Democratic Party’s leader Kenneth Meshoe, among ”other silly parties” sparked a flurry of angry statements by opposition politicians and the ANC itself.
Special Report: Elections 2004
An audit of newsroom leaders is about to get under way. It’s not the Human Rights Commission (HRC) probing racism, nor the Genderlinks NGO sniffing out sexism. It’s an initiative of the South African National Editors Forum (Sanef). A case of the industry examining itself.
”Here’s the story of how a reporter got scooped by her own story — and how audiences get scammed by junk-food journalism.” Guy Berger looks at a case of duplication and a cautionary tale in the funny business of competitive journalism.
A Zambian bank has given more than -million to white Zimbabwean farmers re-settling in Zambia, state media reported on Monday. Scores of farmers have been moving into Zambia to set up commercial tourism and farming blocs in the southern and central parts of the country.
Hamas responded to Israel’s assassination of its spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin on Monday by calling for Muslims across the globe to attack Israelis and Americans who support Israel. Ariel Sharon personally approved the helicopter missile attack that killed the quadriplegic Hamas founder as he was pushed in his wheelchair outside his local mosque.
Israelis braced for attacks
SA condemns assassination
Pakistani troops battling suspected al-Qaeda fighters in Pakistan’s lawless north on Monday discovered a 1,6km tunnel running through the battlefield, through which senior al-Qaeda members may have escaped, officials said. The tunnels were said to have led to a nearby dry riverbed running along the border.
Jerusalemites, like the residents of other Israeli towns and cities, were on Monday bracing themselves for a large-scale revenge attack they regard as inevitable in the wake of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin’s killing.
Theirs was a fate worse than death, a tale which chilled colonial Britain: the <i>Grosvenor</i>’s women and girls shipwrecked on the wild coast of Southern Africa in 1782 who had the misfortune to survive and be carried off by the natives. New evidence, however, suggests a rather different story.