ACCLAIMED South African artist Father Frans Claerhout is causing a furore in
art circles after revealing to a Sunday newspaper that hundreds of his
paintings are forgeries.
SOME 25 000 Unita rebels in Angola have turned themselves in to
demobilisation camps since the movement signed a ceasefire with the army on
April 4 to end 27 years of civil war, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said
on Friday.
MALAWI police said on Friday they had arrested a fugitive member of
parliament (MP) wanted on charges of killing his driver and possibly also
his wife, after a five-week manhunt.
FORMER South African president Nelson Mandela plans to visit the Libyan
secret agent imprisoned in Glasgow for planting the bomb on a plane that
killed 270 people over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, a Sunday
paper said.
ELEPHANTS and hippos have destroyed up to 10 000 hectares of crops in
hunger-stricken Malawi’s southern lakeshore district of Mangochi, a local
lawmaker said on Saturday.
SOUTH Korean authorities on Saturday slaughtered thousands of animals after
outbreaks of highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease.
JAPANESE electronics giant Sony has started developing a successor to its
popular PlayStation 2 game console which it aims to complete by 2005, a
report said on Sunday.
A ZIMBABWEAN farmer, barricaded in his house since April 16, has for 20 days
running continued to resist efforts by war veterans to evict him, Zimbabwe’s
Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) reported on Sunday.
Bongani Majola Students identify with other students naturally. To exploit this simple truism, Technikon Pretoria has developed an innovative Peer Education Programme to provide students with skills to help their peers. Programme manager Francette Bedford says the programme has three core training areas. The academic peer education area is aimed at students within the accounting […]
Alexander Sudheim The considerable musical ability of Zulu Princess Magogo has been brought to the stage In 1900, Mntwana Constance Magogo kaDinuzulu was born to King Dinuzulu KaCetshwayo in Nongoma, Zululand. The year marked the beginning of one of the most turbulent periods in the history of the Zulu people, one whose trials and tribulations […]