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Claims that Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota will be KwaZulu-Natal’s premier after the election are not true, African National Congress provincial leader S’bu Ndebele said on Sunday at a rally in KwaMashu. Ndebele said the claims — in a pamphlet circulating in the northern parts of the province — shocked him.
Special Report: Elections 2004
Firefighters managed to douse the flames at the Brenton-on-Sea hotel in Knysna on Sunday, but not before the building was razed and two chalets gutted. Speaking from the scene, Knysna fire chief Dries Pretorius said numerous other chalets were saved.
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The Democratic Alliance in the North West has challenged the African National Congress to show proof that 20 of its members had defected to the ruling party. DA spokesperson Barbara Harrison claimed that the ANC was busy with an election strategy to distract attention from a decade of failures and non-delivery.
Special Report: Elections 2004
A total of 47 miners died as a result of the weekend’s pit explosion in central Siberia, Russian rescuers said on Monday as remains of most victims were pulled from the collapsed facility. After recovering 44 bodies, officials said they held out no hopes of saving three missing men at the Taizhina mine.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, flies to Washington on Monday, where he expects President George Bush to back his plan to unilaterally draw the frontiers of an emasculated Palestinian state, a move that could redefine the conflict for a generation or more.
For millennia the Indian Ocean atoll known as Aldabra has bloomed in the absence of man. Now that may change because a luxury hotel is being planned for Aldabra. But the South African company that has tendered to build the resort, Wilderness Safaris, says its environmental record is impeccable.
The administration of United States President George Bush was on Sunday striving to play down the political impact of a secret document it was forced to release warning the president, weeks before the September 11 attacks, about ”patterns of suspicious activity” in the US ”consistent with preparations for hijackings”.
The United States on Sunday night robustly defended its controversial siege of Falluja, which has cost the lives of more than 600 people over the past week, by claiming most of those who died were militants picked off with precision by US marines.
Fallujah ceasefire extended
China seeks to save hostages
South Korea’s top internet portal filed an antitrust suit on Monday against United States software giant Microsoft, alleging it broke fair-trade rules by bundling its instant messenger service with its Windows XP platform. The suit follows last month’s European Commission fine of €500-million on Microsoft.
Zulu Royals shocked 10-man Ajax Cape Town when they beat them 1-0 in a crunch Castle Premiership encounter played at King Zwelithini Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The winning goal was netted by Jacky Ledwaba who headed in John Maduka’s well-taken corner kick in the 78th minute.