More than 10 000 people marched on the United States consulate in Cape Town on Saturday to protest the war in Iraq, and to call for the expulsion of America and Britain’s ambassadors.

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in South Africa and across the world have today once again taken to the streets to protest against the war in Iraq.

American forces have been ordered to prepare for a ferocious assault on Baghdad to begin in the next few days, in an operation intended rapidly to encircle the Iraqi capital and isolate and destroy the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Anti-war campaigners called for an immediate withdrawal of British troops from Iraq yesterday as the number of civilian casualties continued to grow to more than 400.

A hard-hitting report by the Commonwealth Secretariat stating conclusively that the Zimbabwe government has maintained state-sponsored human rights abuses is to be delivered to all member heads of government this week.

Fresh waves of air strikes rocked Baghdad today as US-led bombing squads struck surface-to-air missile sites, a presidential palace and the main training ground for Saddam Hussein’s fedayeen paramilitary forces.

Bafana Bafana used their territorial advantage to their best ability but were made to sweat before beating Madagascar’s ”B” team 2-0 (1-0 half-time) at FNB Stadium on Saturday.

The doctor who first identified the deadly flu-like virus that has claimed the lives of 54 people worldwide and infected thousands of others, fell victim to the disease and died yesterday.