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/ 21 November 2001
A EUROPEAN Union delegation headed by Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel on Tuesday headed for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for a regional tour to promote peace. The team will “sound out the rival parties on the prospects for progress on outstanding issues in the Lusaka process and the Arusha process” — meaning peace […]
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/ 21 November 2001
A 72-year-old priest was killed by a stray bullet in Durban on Tuesday afternoon, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Wednesday. Captain Vishnu Naidoo said the shooting occurred in Brickfield Road, Springfield near the Essendene Temple around 4pm. A 30-year-old man had seen a person trying to steal his Toyota Venture and opened fire. The alleged thief […]
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/ 21 November 2001
Cape Town | Wednesday CAPE Town’s mayor Peter Marais resigned on Wednesday afternoon, shortly after the Cape High Court restored both his party membership and his mayoral chain. ”The choice I have to make is between a DA (Democratic Alliance) mayoral chair or an uncertain future. However to remain as mayor I would be required […]
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/ 21 November 2001
Islamabad | Thursday PAKISTAN has ordered a special watch on its border with Afghanistan in case terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden tries to slip across, officials said on Thursday. With pressure mounting on the Taliban headquarters in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, next to the Pakistan border, a top Pakistan government official said troops […]
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/ 21 November 2001
EIGHT prisoners were being treated at the Livingstone public hospital in Port Elizabeth after being injured in a gang fight at the prison on Monday. The eight were among 30 others who were injured in the fight which broke out in the St Albans prison complex around 11pm on Monday. Correctional services department representative Tembisa […]
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/ 20 November 2001
After several years in the salt mines of fashion, chill-out music is suddenly hip again. Television-advertised down-tempo compilations are even outselling the annual bangin’ Ibiza collections. If one band has a claim to kickstarting the chill-out revival, it’s Groove Armada.
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/ 20 November 2001
Born in South Africa, Lindsey Collen has lived in Mauritius since 1974 and has been a controversial figure there for her espousal of women’s rights. Though her novel, <i>The Rape of Sita</i> (1994), won the prestigious Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, it was banned in Mauritius where Muslim pressure groups objected to its forceful feminism.
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/ 20 November 2001
Pretoria | Tuesday FOUR of six white South African policemen were convicted on Monday for setting their dogs on three suspected illegal immigrants from Mozambique, saying it was done to train their dogs to bite humans. The six men were arrested in November last year after sickening video footage of the attack was shown on […]
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/ 20 November 2001
Sudanese rebels killed 100 Sudanese government soldiers on Sunday when they ambushed and destroyed their convoy in the oil-rich region of Farink-Higlieg, the rebels said in a statement on Tuesday. The rebels of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) “laid an ambush for a government convoy in this region and killed 100 Sudanese government troops,” […]
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/ 20 November 2001
United Nations | Tuesday THE plunder of natural resources in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo continues unabated, a UN panel said Monday, while softening a previous call for punitive measures to stop it. In a report to the Security Council, the five-man panel recommended a moratorium on imports of gold, diamonds, copper, cobalt, timber, […]