South Africa’s three major gold miners AngloGold, Gold Fields and Harmony experienced small stay-away incidents by their workforce on the Sunday night shift but everything was back to normal on Monday, said company representatives.
Food aid is needed for 659 000 people in Mozambique or 3,8% of the country’s population until the next harvest, beginning in January in the southern region and February-March in the central region.
Somewhere in Soweto outside Johannesburg this week a mother spoke of her anguish at the rape of her three-year-old daughter and her shock and disbelief when the alleged rapist walked out of court a free man because the child could not utter a word against him.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma has questioned the Scorpions’ motives in allowing the Sunday Times newspaper sight of 35 questions he was asked in connection with his alleged misconduct relating to South Africa’s arms deal.
Ariel Sharon yesterday cajoled his reluctant cabinet into agreeing to release more than 200 Hamas and Islamic Jihad prisoners in an attempt to stave off pressure for further concessions when he visits the White House tomorrow.
President Richard Nixon personally ordered the Watergate break-in of the Democratic party headquarters, according to a senior aide who was jailed for his part in the affair.
Liberian rebels rejected a US appeal to pull back from the capital Monrovia yesterday as renewed fighting endangered the plan to send in peacekeepers this week.
From church to slaughterhouse
In developing the YZF 450 quad, Yamaha did what quad nuts have been praying for — taken the motor from their race-winning four-stroke YZ dirt-bike series and put it into a four-wheeled frame that can deliver handling to suit.
After a long wait Volvo’s passenger car based XC90 has arrived, and it’s every bit as good as all the hype led us to expect. The XC 90 T6 is the flagship model in the Swedish car-maker’s new XC range. Although not a REAL off-roader, the Volvo is well qualified to take on the BMW X5 and Mercedes Benz ML series soft-roaders, both in the rough and as a tarmac-chomping family wagon.
Iraqi guerrillas killed a US soldier in a grenade attack south of Baghdad early yesterday morning, bringing the American death toll in 24 hours to five. The deaths came as the hunt for Saddam Hussein intensified in the Tikrit area and in the capital.