Durban | Tuesday SUSPECTED treasure hunters have desecrated a mass grave of British soldiers who fought in the Anglo-Boer War, the organisation which looks after the graves reported on Monday. THE desecration of the grave of eight privates of the 27th Iniskillen Regiment at Hart’s Hill outside Ladysmith, 236 kilometres northwest of Durban, occurred at […]
SIX Central American countries have announced they are negotiating with international drugs companies to buy cheaper Aids treatments. The countries have already had individual offers of big discounts – up to 85% in some cases – but want to drive the price down further by buying in bulk. Many of the region’s health services are […]
DAVID LE PAGE Johannesburg | Tuesday THE ongoing strike in the car manufacture industry could lead to Daimler-Chrysler permanently losing a major contract for the annual production of 30_000 C-class Mercedes-Benz vehicles for the European market, the company warned its workers on Monday. The strike by 20_000 car manufacturing workers is now in its second […]
THE South African government urged its citizens on Monday to light candles, torches and lanterns on Tuesday next week to demonstrate their commitment to tolerance, and said official torches would burn until the end of a world conference against racism. Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad, who made the plea, also asked South African churches to […]
LUNGA MASUKU, Mbabane | Tuesday A SWAZILAND crime syndicate allegedly involving government officials is selling HIV negative certificates for R300 in the tiny kingdom’s central region. Director of medical services in Swaziland Dr John Mbambo said he had asked police to investigate the matter. “This is defeating our efforts as we try to bring the […]
ED STODDARD, Johannesburg | Tuesday THE South African Communist Party has accused government ally the African National Congress of fostering a culture of corruption and greed, an SACP document obtained by Reuters on Monday said. The discussion document has been recently revealed to the ruling coalition’s third ally, the Congress of South African Trade Unions […]
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Everyone reaches a time in their life when they have to get rid of the clutter. For most of us, this could mean anything from family heirlooms to unnecessary personal complications. For Depeche Mode, this means the excess baggage of a 20-year journey from squeaky Basildon electro-poppers to stadium art-rockers who have trotted the globe and almost killed themselves in the process.<
AN Islamic court in northern Nigeria has sentenced a woman to 100 lashes for having sex with a man to whom she was not married, The Comet newspaper reported on Sunday. It said 20-year-old Amina Abdullahi was convicted on Friday by the Sharia court in Gusau, capital of Zamfara state, after confessing to sleeping with […]
A SISTER-in-law of Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd, who is frequently in legal trouble in Egypt, was acquitted of charges she spent the salaries of around 50 of her employees, legal sources said on Sunday. A Cairo misdemeanours court found Princess Hind al-Fassi and her nephew Mohammed al-Fassi innocent on Saturday because the plaintiffs had no […]