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/ 22 January 2003
John Adedayo used to be a diligent and punctual worker. For five years he left his home in the crowded Lagos suburb of Agbado-Ijaye at 5am every day, until the city’s crippling transport snarl-ups lost him his job.
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/ 22 January 2003
Police said on Tuesday they had found a cache of ammunition on a farm south of Harare which could be part of a ”plot” to disrupt the World Cup cricket matches being held in Zimbabwe.
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/ 22 January 2003
Four men were detained in Ulundi on Tuesday morning for the possession of an illegal firearm and were being questioned in connection with the attack on, and murder of, KwaZulu-Natal social development MEC Prince Gideon Zulu’s son, provincial police reported.
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/ 22 January 2003
With a couple of Starbucks and at least one other big-name coffee shop within easy walking distance, not long ago Tomohiro Tsuchiya would have been better off opening his little café somewhere else. But he’s got a trendy product to offer — tea.
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/ 22 January 2003
The season for quizzes is over. But try this. What was Jim Morrison convicted for in March 1969? Easy. Waving his ”snake” in front of 13 000 fans (and one lucky photographer) at a Miami pop concert (”D’ya wanna see my cock?” They did.) Why did the Lizard King do this criminal thing?
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/ 22 January 2003
With final drafting imminent, the controversy-haunted Communal Land Rights Bill remains mired in strong objections from both left and right and overshadowed by threats of violent resistance. The Bill seeks to extend tenure security to occupiers of land under traditional leaders.
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/ 22 January 2003
What do ordinary rural people — as opposed to loud-mouthed traditional leaders — think of the draft Communal Land Rights Bill? They seem to like it, but worry about how it will be implemented. That was the message of a weekend indaba in Leeufontein township, Limpopo.
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/ 22 January 2003
Representatives from a dozen nations will gather today in Paris for the first international meeting of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership.
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/ 22 January 2003
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was seeing better volumes early on Wednesday with market interest in resources and gold on the back of a weaker rand and stronger gold price.
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/ 22 January 2003
Paddling palms and pinching fingers are at the heart of Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale but none were on display on a Tehran stage last night as the bard became an ambassador for Britain in a land once synonymous with anti-western sentiment.