DONALD Woods will be laid to rest in the soil of the land of his birth. His eldest son, Dillon, said from London on Monday that a memorial service for his father would be held at St Martins-in-the-Fields Church opposite Trafalgar Square, London, next Tuesday, followed by a reception at the South African High Commission […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday XENOPHOBIA is on the rise in South Africa seven years after the end of apartheid, as not only black Africans but also economic migrants take the brunt of a new wave of violence, a survey released this week showed. The report, based on interviews with more than 100 Africans living in the […]

SOUTH Africa’s 2000/01 commercial maize crop is seen at 7,225-million tons versus last year’s 10,1-million tons, the national Crop Estimates Committee said on Monday in its final summer crop data. South African maize supplies will be stretched to the limits, some market players say, because the country is seen as a key supplier to the […]

A PLAN to sue the government over drugs that can prevent HIV transmission from mother to child will be announced by the HIV/Aids lobby group Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) on Tuesday. TAC last year threatened to sue over the government’s refusal to make the anti-retroviral Nevirapine available in state facilities, but withdrew when the Department […]

A 36-YEAR-old woman has given birth to quadruplets in Umtata, the SABC TV news reported on Tuesday. All the four babies were well and in incubators. The woman has five other children, the oldest of whom is now eighteen. She said she had never taken fertility drugs or contraceptives. Her husband was recently retrenched from […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday THE National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) will on Tuesday canvas members on whether to accept a Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) recommendation that could settle a 16-day-old strike in the automobile industry. On Monday, the union said the CCMA proposed to it and that Automobile Manufacturers Employers Organisation […]

Washington | Tuesday THE US government fully anticipated mass killings in Rwanda following the 1994 death of Rwanda’s president but still found ”insufficient justification” for retaining UN peacekeepers in the country, according to declassified documents released Monday. The documents, obtained by the National Security Archive, show that as extremist ethnic Hutu militias set up roadblocks […]