MORE than 1 000 weapons used in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were set ablaze in Kinshasa on Tuesday, a symbolic event held in the presence of United Nations Security Council ambassadors.

The best-known photograph from the 1992 World Cup shows Jonty Rhodes hurtling into the stumps at The Gabba to run-out Inzamam-ul-Haq. It flashed around the world, making Rhodes a household name and serving notice that South Africa, the prodigal sons of world cricket, were well and truly back.

The three-member panel just could not agree. What had been the very best aspect of the second day in a row spent on the grass banks of Zandvlei in Muizenberg?

Over 50 000 people were arrested for various crimes during the police operation Crackdown in the month of April in Pretoria, police reported on Thursday.

South Africa’s top businessmen and women contributed about R420 000 to an education trust which would help Andrew Babeile to further his studies, the Nelson Mandela Foundation said on Thursday.

SEVENTY-percent of babies born in the State sector to HIV-positive mothers did not need the antiretroviral nevirapine, the Constitutional Court heard on Thursday.

ONE of the world’s smallest democracies, with just 800 registered voters, Thursday elected a new prime minister in a vote in its 20-seat parliament.

FOUR men accused of the kidnap and murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl were transferred to a new trial venue under heavy security on Thursday following fears of a terrorist attack, officials said.

VIETNAMESE President Tran Duc Luong left on Thursday for a four-day official trip to North Korea aimed at bolstering ties between the two communist states.

ONE word trips easily off the tongue in this mediaeval town on the river Rhone in southern France: Pourri. Rotten.