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 […]
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MAX HAMATA, Windhoek | Monday IMMIGRATION officials at Luderitz have discovered four stowaways from Congo-Brazzaville who were dumped off the Namibian coast about 200 kilometres from Luderitz just over a week ago. Officials in Luderitz told The Namibian that the four youths aged 21, 16, 17 and 14 were discovered after an aircraft flying from […]
THE driver of the truck being blamed for 48 deaths near Roossenekal on Sunday appeared at the Middelburg Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, Mpumalanga police said. Captain Malculm Mokomene said the driver was released and would appear again in court on January 24. The truck around 8pm on Sunday was transporting about 120 people — mostly […]
SOUTH African police has confiscated more than 1,5 million tablets of the hypnotic drug Mandrax worth $8,5-million dollars in an upmarket suburb north of Johannesburg. Police on Thursday raided two homes in Sandton, about 12 kilometres north of the city centre, which had been used as a Mandrax factory, the Johannesburg-based The Star reported. Inside […]
A Briton has appeared in a Malawi court charged with sodomising boys from a local orphanage to whom he sometimes gave food, clothes and shelter, court officials said on Friday. The officials said a magistrates’ court here heard testimonies on Thursday from three boys among a dozen who allege to have been molested by Edward […]
A 72-year-old white South African woman was shot dead on Sunday on her farm near Tzaneen, in the Northern Province, police said. Two men tied up Susan van den Heever before shooting and killing her, breaking into a safe, stealing three firearms and escaping, according to inspector James Ngoepe. More than 1 000 people, mostly […]