POLICE at Kranskop in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands are looking for a 36-year-old man who allegedly raped his 72-year-old grandmother last week, policeman Captain Zethembe Chonco said on Monday. Chonco said the man was also on bail for another rape that allegedly occurred in Durban last year. His grandmother was at home and in bed around […]

Maputo | Tuesday AS forecasters warned of possible heavy rainfall, the government in Mozambique said it was pre-positioning food supplies as part of a 24-million-dollar program aimed at avoiding a repeat of the flooding disaster which killed some 700 people in 2000. The scheme, funded by both the government and foreign donors, will place basic […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday POLICE in northern KwaZulu-Natal arrested two people, including an induna, and confiscated rifles and ammunition during an operation at Nqutu over the weekend, spokesman Inspector Sabelo Zwane said on Monday. Zwane said Sunday’s operation in Hlakazi followed a recent upsurge of violence between the Mabasa and Magubane clans. The induna, a leader […]

LEAFLETS featuring pictures of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar and the license plate of one of his cars have been dropped from US planes over Afghanistan. The leaflets in Pashto and English were released Monday by the US Department of Defence. They feature a pair of angry clear eyes above a caption, which reads: ”We […]

With its use of the 6 750-kilogram ”daisy cutter” bomb in Afghanistan, the United States has unleashed one of its most powerful weapons – billed as the world’s largest conventional bomb. The BLU-82 combines a watery mixture of ammonium nitrate and aluminium with air, then ignites the mist for a huge explosion that incinerates everything […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday A SOUTH African Test player has lashed out at Percy Sonn, president of the United Cricket Board of South Africa. The Cape Argus reported on Monday that the player, who refused to be named, claimed Sonn knew ”very little about cricket” and accused him of putting ”the skids under us”. The comments […]

THE US bombs falling on Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban are divine punishment for their destruction of the ancient Bamiyan Buddha statues, Hindu and Buddhist leaders said on Sunday. Acharya Giriraj Kishore, head of the right-wing Hindu movement Vishwa Hindu Parishad, said the US-led campaign on Afghanistan was ”godly punishment”. ”If you trouble God and cause harm […]

Kabul | Friday TALIBAN fighters in Kandahar were on Friday either fleeing or surrendering to troops loyal to Afghanistan’s new interim government as the militia relinquished control of its birthplace and last remaining bastion. Two months to the day after the launch of a US bombing campaign that brought the Islamic fundamentalist regime to its […]

A SECRET CIA office in the World Trade Center complex that spied on UN diplomats and handled anti-terrorism cases was destroyed in the September 11 terror attack, the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing government officials. The Central Intelligence Agency office, which operated behind a false front, was located at 7 World Trade Center, […]

Pretoria | Tuesday PRESIDENTIAL advisor Titus Mafolo on Monday, through his attorneys, denied allegations that he had lied about the hijacking of his Mercedes Benz in Pretoria on December 15. ”Up to this stage our client’s vehicle has not been recovered. Our client does not have anything to gain from ‘faking’ the hijacking of his […]