Afghanistan is still the top supplier of heroin to Europe and produces almost the entire bulk of opiates consumed in central Asia, a top United Nations narcotics official said on Tuesday.
Nato is set to take up its first official role in Afghanistan by providing support for the international security assistance force in Kabul, senior alliance sources said yesterday.
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai warned on Monday of a gathering ”people’s storm” that would battle what he called President Robert Mugabe’s ”civil-military junta”.
International Business Machines Corporation on Monday said it created a silicon-based transistor that is 65% faster than current technology.
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/ 31 December 2001
Robert Kirby laments the fact that the SABC is turning the English language into an idiot’s tongue.
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/ 28 December 2001
The story below is a previously unpublished piece by Herman Charles Bosman, recently released alongside 19 Oom Schalk Lourens tales in a new collection of the writer’s works.
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/ 28 December 2001
Herman Charles Bosman is well known for his "gallows humour", writes Craig MacKenzie.
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/ 27 December 2001
In a way, Herman Charles Bosman is the Elvis of South African literature, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 20 December 2001
Batting rather than bowling is now South Africa’s strength Peter Robinson Herschelle Gibbs started the year with a duck. He ends it with more than 1 000 Test runs to his name (and still two Tests against Australia to come in this calendar). In many respects the re-emergence of Gibbs has mirrored a gradual shift […]