A Port Elizabeth man is recovering from a horrific ordeal in which he was forced to watch a woman being repeatedly raped and, severely injured after being stoned and stabbed, he had to crawl through salt pans to seek help, Eastern Cape police said.
The South African government said on Monday it was still not aware of any plan for ousted Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide to seek asylum. ”We are not aware that President Aristide is making his way to South Africa,” said foreign affairs spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa.
US goes in as Aristide flees Haiti
Zimbabwe’s ruling party is training children as young as 12 to torture and kill its political opponents, the British Broadcasting Corporation reported on Sunday. The BBC’s investigative programme Panorama said it had interviewed dozens of veterans of training camps for youth militias loyal to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>""It would not be possible to ask every job applicant whether he’s a homosexual, but if someone wants to promote the homosexual lifestyle and influence others, we would object to that." Drew Forrest scourges African Christian Democratic Party leader Kenneth Meshoe with the cat-o’-ten-tails.
South African Minister of Minerals and Energy Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Monday urged the country’s major coal miners to speed up their efforts to improve black economic empowerment in the industry, particularly by identifying smaller coal operations that could be turned over to new entrants.
World number one resources group BHP Billiton on Monday announced its intention to enter into the Wheelarra joint venture with four of China’s leading steel mills. The joint venture will secure the sale to the mills of about 12-million tons per annum of iron ore.
The last episode of the Lord of the Rings trilogy scored a stunning Oscars clean-sweep on Sunday, winning eleven awards and becoming the first fantasy film ever to win the coveted best picture trophy.
The Philippine Islamist bandit group Abu Sayyaf claimed responsibility on Sunday for an explosion on a ferry near Manila on Friday that killed one person and left 184 missing. President Gloria Arroyo dismissed the claim as ”an afterthought”, despite threats Abu Sayyaf made last year to target passenger ferries.
Washington has ordered the hunt for Osama bin Laden to be intensified along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in the hope of capturing him before the US presidential election in November. George Bush has approved a new plan to step up the hunt for the al-Qaeda leader and for Mullah Omar, leader of the Taliban.