ZAMBIA has an estimated 1,2-million orphans, of which 700 000 are Aids orphans, experts said on Thursday. Reports in Zambia say that a strategy meeting was held between representatives of the country’s government and a representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Community Development Benard Simpokolwe told […]

Cape Town | Thursday CAPE Town’s finances are in a healthy state and the payment of arrears has improved dramatically, the city’s executive committee member for finance, George Mellet, said on Thursday. In a report tabled in the executive committee, he reported sound financial results for the six months to December 31, 2001. ”Total cash […]

EIGHT policemen were killed in Nigeria’s commercial hub, Lagos, in three separate attacks by armed robbers staged within one hour, police representative Victor Chilaka said on Thursday. All eight policemen were attacked late on Wednesday, said Chilaka. ”We are very sad about this ugly incident. This is a major setback to the effort of the […]

Sydney | Monday A PAIN-killer derived from the venom of a Great Barrier Reef shellfish 1 000 times more powerful than morphine could be available within five years, biotechnology company Medica Holdings Ltd said on Monday. Medica said pre clinical trials of the pain-killer – which they claimed could help people with cancer, arthritis or […]

A POLICE reservist shot and wounded himself on Saturday morning after apparently shooting dead his girlfriend in Oudtshoorn’s Bongolethu suburb, police said on Monday. Inspector Elgin Antonie said the man, who cannot be named, reported for duty at the Bongolethu police station on Saturday morning and booked out a patrol vehicle. He drove to another […]

A Saambou employee, Meis Muller, died in the Pretoria Academic Hospital on Friday after an alleged suicide attempt on Thursday afternoon. Muller was a senior employee in Saambou’s housing finance division. On Thursday, she reportedly asked a colleague to take her home to her townhouse in the Pretoria suburb of Villeria. When they arrived, Muller […]

Luanda | Monday ANGOLA’S government on Sunday called for Unita rebels to hand in their weapons following the death of their flamboyant leader Jonas Savimbi, but a guerrilla representative vowed the struggle would go on. Foreign Minister Joao Bernardo de Miranda said disarming rebel forces was the next priority for Angola’s government after a weekend […]

Pretoria | Monday THE resources accumulated by previously white universities and technikons over years of political advantage, should now be shared with their previously marginalised counterparts, the Association of Vice-Chancellors of Historically Disadvantaged Tertiary Institutions announced this week. Association representative Muxe Nkondo criticised the proposed mergers of tertiary institutions — which will reduce the number […]