Johannesburg | Wednesday THE Department of Health is claiming that it has not yet received court papers from Aids lobby groups, demanding that anti-HIV drugs be provided to all mothers at risk of transmitting HIV to their unborn infants. But the Treatment Action Campaign says that in fact, the court papers were served on the […]
Kampala | Wednesday THE man dubbed South Africa’s cash heist mastermind, Collin Chauke, and a co-accused could go free on Thursday when judgment is given on a charge of robbery with aggravated circumstances in the Pretoria Regional Court. Chauke and Ellie Lucas Yende were acquitted in July on seven of eight charges against them for […]
THE death of South Africa’s newspaper editor and anti-apartheid activist Donald Woods ”deprives the world of a great freedom fighter and humanist”, the UN’s top human rights official said on Tuesday. Mary Robinson, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said his death was felt ”even more acutely” because it happened on the eve […]
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In her new exhibition the sculptor takes a journey in plastic back
to her own roots, writes Kathryn Smith.
Lusaka | Wednesday ZAMBIA police released an outspoken opposition politician and two journalists late on Tuesday after charging them with defaming President Frederick Chiluba, one of their defence lawyers said. The three surrendered themselves to the police on Tuesday morning after their arrest was ordered at the weekend following a newspaper article which claimed Chiluba […]
MAXIM KNIAZKOV, Washington | Wednesday THE US government came under fire on Tuesday over its stance during Rwanda’s 1994 mass killings following the release of declassified official documents showing Washington anticipated events now seen as among the most gruesome atrocities of the late 20th century. “The US response was literally running away from any responsibility,” […]
A JOINT team of experts from the Sudanese government, UN relief agencies and NGOs left on Tuesday for the central Sudan Sennar State, to assess the situation after days of heavy rains and storms. High waters of the Blue Nile have already inundated a number of villages in Sennar State, where 500 homes and numerous […]
EVARISTO CUMBANE, Maputo | Wednesday SENA Sugar Estates — abandoned by its owners, bombed by rebels, and threatened by raging floodwaters — is about to complete its transformation from ruin to a potent symbol of Mozambique’s post-war recovery. The sugar mill in the central town of Marromeu, flanked by the mighty Zambezi River and surrounded […]