Cape Town | Saturday TWO chief executives from LeisureNet, the holding company of the former Health and Racquet Club gym group, were arrested by the elite crime busting unit, the Scorpions, in Cape Town on Saturday evening. Scorpions representative Sipho Ngwema said that joint chief executives Peter Gardener and Rod Mitchell were granted R1-million bail […]
SUE BLAINE, Johannesburg | Wednesday THE State did not have the capacity to comply with an interim High Court order that it provide the anti-retroviral drug nevirapine in all State hospitals and clinics, senior counsel for the State, Marumo Moerane, told the Constitutional Court on Wednesday. The court has convened during its recess to hear […]
Johannesburg | Monday TWO icons of South Africa’s post-apartheid struggle, both intimately linked to the violent death of American student Amy Biehl, have died. Peter Biehl, the father of Amy, the American Fulbright Scholar who was murdered in a racist attack in Guguletu, Cape Town, in 1993, died on Sunday. He was 59. Father Basil […]
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Alexandra Fuller’s rollicking, passionate memoir recalls her childhood during the chimurenga that brought Zimbabwe to the threshold of independence, writes Jane Rosenthal.
Paris | Saturday FRENCH researchers say they have scored a scientific first by cloning rabbits, a species considered until now one of the most difficult to replicate. In biotechnology circles the rabbit is gaining particular attention because of its genetic make-up which is considered to be much closer to a human being than the commonly […]
Harare | Monday ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe has ruled out fresh elections after disputed polls that returned him to power last month, Zimbabwe’s state media said on Monday. ”This talk about fresh elections, where will these be re-run?” the daily Herald quoted Mugabe as saying. He was speaking in Shona at an election victory celebration […]
Johannesburg | Monday THE government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and other parties at the peace talks in South Africa hit a new deadlock on Monday, stalling work on a post-war constitution for the country. Opposition politicians said the government refused to allow work to start on a new constitution until Kinshasa, […]
London | Sunday BRITAIN on Sunday mourned the death of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who passed away at the age of 101. Newspapers published special editions in memory of the mother of Queen Elizabeth II, following her death on Saturday as she slept peacefully at her daughter’s side. ”Passing of the matriarch from a […]
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