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South Africa faced five major crises, and it was the responsibility of voters in the coming election to judge whether these could be solved by the current government, or whether a profound change was required, IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Tuesday.
One step forward, three steps backwards: that’s how various Aids activists, parents and teachers in Zambia are describing government’s decision to ban the distribution of condoms in schools on the grounds that it promotes promiscuity.
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Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon spelled out on Tuesday the goals of his party’s ”Coalition for Change” with the Inkatha Freedom Party, and predicted the two parties would win up to 30% of the national vote on Election Day. He said the coalition aimed to provide the ”core of an alternative government”.
Oil prices fell on Tuesday as investors rushed to cash in a day after prices spurted to a post-Iraq war high when OPEC indicated it would shun importers’ calls to scrap a planned cut in output. The price of reference North Sea crude oil for April delivery lost 40c to .40 per barrel in early deals here.
Martha Stewart, the disgraced American businesswoman, on Monday resigned from the board of the company that bears her name. The expected move came a little more than a week after Stewart was found guilty of obstruction of justice, conspiracy and making false statements to federal investigators who were looking into a suspicious share sale.
The only survivor of the Sizzlers massage parlour massacre held his arms up in victory as he exited the Cape High Court on Tuesday after the two men responsible for the brutal crime were sentenced to nine life sentences. Adam Roy Woest and Trevor Basil Theys were also sentenced to 20 years for the attempted murder of Taylor, the only man to survive.
President George Bush and Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry are running neck and neck in United States voter support, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll published on Tuesday. Bush and Kerry share a 46-43% support — a tie since the difference matches the poll’s margin of error.
The war on spam is hotting up. A flurry of announcements recently from some of the wired world’s biggest names — including Microsoft, Yahoo!, HP and Sun — has raised the prospect that we may now see a fightback against junk mail. But will these new plans really have any effect on the rising tide of spam?
The Judicial Officers’ Association of South Africa said on Tuesday it was shocked and dismayed at the lack of security that contributed to the escape of six suspects, who pointed a firearm at the presiding officer, from the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court.
Spanish police have identified six Moroccans who they suspect carried out last week’s bomb attacks in Madrid, it was reported on Tuesday. According to unnamed sources cited by Spain’s El Pais newspaper, five of the men are on the run but one — Jamal Zougam — was among a group of suspects arrested on Saturday.
‘You can’t organise a war with lies’
Power balance blown apart