TRIALISTS of the historic Liliesleaf Rivonia Trial will on Saturday meet in a reunion for the first time in 38 years. Nadine Bainbridge, a representative for the Liliesleaf Rivonia Trialist Reunion organisers, said on Monday the function — at the history-making Rivonia farm — would bring together for the first time all those closely associated […]

CLAIRE KEETON, Pretoria | Friday SOUTH Africa’s government must provide HIV treatment to pregnant women to help prevent transmission of the Aids-causing virus to their unborn children, the High Court ruled in Pretoria on Friday. The landmark decision swept aside the official line that such treatment was impracticable, given the scale of the problem in […]

TANZANIAN police are holding a South African national who was arrested at the airport here in possession of three kilograms of cocaine, police said on Wednesday. Police named the suspect as Sali Ameen Abdulhack (51) and said he was holding a South African passport. ”The suspect was found with several packets of the drugs in […]

Kano | Thursday ANGRY Muslims beat to death a Christian truck driver who accidentally reversed his lorry over a copy of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, witnesses said on Wednesday. The 42-year-old ethnic Igbo driver, locally known by the nickname of Saint Moritz, was reversing in a well-known fruit market in the northern city […]

Johannesburg | Thursday SOUTH Africa’s labour legislation, coupled with the lack of skills among the majority of prospective employees, were responsible for the rising tide of unemployment, according to the SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR). In its 55th annual South Africa survey released in Johannesburg on Wednesday, SAIRR said the current 26 percent unemployment […]

Gerhusirnay, Ethiopia | Thursday A YEAR after Ethiopia and Eritrea ended a bloody border war, people displaced by the conflict still cannot work their fields because of landmines, humanitarian officials say. “A lot of people have returned to their homes but have no access to their farmland because of landmine issues, and that is true […]

Bonn | Wednesday RIVAL Afghan groups meeting in Germany struck a historic UN-sponsored power-sharing accord Wednesday, agreeing on who will serve in an interim government, the United Nations announced. UN representative Ahmad Fawzi said the 29-member executive cabinet, which will rule Afghanistan for the next six months, is to be headed by the royalist ethnic […]

Stockholm | Thursday Africa is more in need of development aid than ever following the worldwide economic slowdown and the aftermath of the September 11th attacks on the United States, the head of the African Development Bank, Omar Kabbaj, said in Stockholm on Thursday. Kabbaj said that while there was ”an expression of strong support” […]