TRISH BEAVER, Cape Town | Sunday MATRON Gail Darvel of the Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town said on Sunday that the Kona siamese twins, Zinzi and Zanele who were separated in a marathon 20-hour operation on Thursday were making good progress. The twins were born with legs splayed out at a 180-degree angle […]
Johannesburg | Monday SOUTH Africa’s Nedcor said on Monday it was offering R7,3-billion in cash and shares for troubled rival BoE in an agreed deal that would form the country’s biggest bank. Ending weeks of market speculation, Nedcor said the offer valued BoE at R3,43 per share, a 10% premium over BoE’s Friday closing share […]
London | Monday BRITISH media and information group Reuters on Monday reported a six-percent slump in first-quarter revenues and said the depressed market conditions were set to continue through the end of the year. Reuters stock slumped 5,5% to 481,5 pence in early deals after the company said turnover fell to 912 million pounds (1,5-billion […]
Los Angeles | Monday SEVERAL senior US clerics will urge the Vatican to force the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law from his post as archbishop of Boston, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday. Quoting off-the-record interviews with a US bishop and a cardinal, the Times reported that US bishops are virtually unanimous in believing […]
Harare | Saturday ZIMBABWE has welcomed an African-led vote that blocked a European Union call for UN human rights investigations into the southern African country. ”Once again we have been able to kill and frustrate the machinations of imperialist forces,” Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa told the state-run daily, The Herald. On Friday, the UN Human […]
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Grant Solomons attends the Cape Town leg of the Faithless tour and has a religious experience.
Gordon Haskell <i>Harry’s Bar</i>
HOWARD BARRELL, Johannesburg | Friday ELECTRONIC versions of two controversial documents promoting the dissident view of HIV/Aids carry embedded signatures suggesting that they were written on Thabo Mbeki’s computer. But computer experts have told the Mail&Guardian that this cannot be conclusive proof of authorship. The presidency on Thursday issued a guarded response to the M&G’s […]
CLAIRE SNEGAROFF, Jenin | Friday AHMAD Hussein Faraj feels his life is over. He cannot find his wife, he has been told one son is dead, and he does not know exactly where his house once stood in what is now the rubble of the Jenin refugee camp. Filled with heartache, the 70-year-old struggles to […]