KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali has called a special sitting of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature next week to vote on the dissolution of the legislature, in preparation for a provincial election.
John Edwards, a Democratic senator from North Carolina and a multimillionaire former lawyer, announced his intention to seek the presidency in 2004 yesterday, declaring himself a candidate for ”regular folks” against the stablishment ”insiders” of the Bush administration.
The landlocked African kingdom of Swaziland is believed to have the world’s highest rate of HIV, with almost four out of 10 adults infected with the virus which causes Aids.
Three girls between the ages of 10 and 15 were raped and a woman was gang-raped and her boyfriend murdered in separate incidents in the KwaMhlanga area of Mpumalanga this week.
France is sending its foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, today to Ivory Coast, its former West African colony where rebels have opened a new front in the insurgency now in its fourth month.
Smokers will have to order cigarettes by colour, with words such as ”blue” and ”gold” distinguishing different ranges when a European edict bans the terms ”light” and ”mild”.
One of the most prestigious universities in America, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said yesterday that it had begun an inquiry into claims that its scientists had covered up evidence of critical problems with President Bush’s proposed national missile defence system.
One of the strokes of genius of <i>The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys</i> is to jump right into that animated universe, writes Neil Sonnekus.
Jason Curtis talks to Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament.
Every year around this time South Africans engage in the macabre ritual of monitoring the road-death body count, exchanging anecdotes about the hell run on the country’s highways and relating the latest tales about the record fines being dished out by the traffic police.