THE international terminal of Johannesburg Airport was evacuated for around an hour late on Saturday after a hoax bomb alert near the El Al counter, police said, with one source describing the device as a “dummy bomb” designed to cause panic. Several hundred people were asked to leave the building while bomb disposal experts using […]

MOZAMBICAN President Joaquim Chissano arrived in Cuba for a week-long official visit on Sunday, in hopes to expand bilateral relations with the communist-ruled island. The Mozambican leader, a frequent guest in Havana since Mozambique gained independence in 1975, was met at the airport by Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque. He is scheduled to meet […]

Cape Town | Monday UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said on Monday that child mortality rates in Afghanistan, where thousands of children die of preventable diseases each year, will worsen as refugees flood from the war-battered country. “The plight of Afghanistan’s children was terrible even before the recent crisis,” she told the American Academy of […]

Chief mediator in the Burundi peace process, Nelson Mandela, has called on international donors to double to $880-million the amount of aid they pledged to Burundi.

THE youngest son of philanthropist and businessman Anton Rupert, 49-year-old Anthonij Rupert, died in a car accident in Cape Town on Sunday, SABC television news reported. Rupert, who was travelling alone, apparently lost control of the vehicle in stormy weather in Franschhoek Valley. Rupert was well known in the international wine industry as owner of […]

Upington | Monday SIX men were arrested on Friday night in Louisvale, Upington after a nine-month old baby was raped and indecently assaulted, Northern Cape police said. Provincial police representative Captain Cherelle Ehlers said that the baby girl’s 16-year-old mother left the child in another person’s care around 10pm on Saturday night while she went […]

MARC LAVINE, Washington | Monday US FORCES are prepared to kill terror suspect Osama bin Laden if he resists capture, a top official said on Sunday, as Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban ordered defences to be boosted to thwart fresh US commando raids. US warplanes meanwhile launched stinging new airstrikes on Taliban targets as US Secretary of […]

Johannesburg | Monday The NNP’s departure from the DA raises the issue of what will become of the public positions of DA representatives who wish to follow the NNP. Those who were elected as NNP party members, before the formation of the DA, will retain their posts. But those NNP sympathisers who have been elected […]

THE stricken 10_000-ton cargo ship Ikan Tanda was scuttled off the Western Cape coast on Saturday, salvors Smit Pentow Marine said on Monday. Spokeswoman Clare du Plooy-Gomes said the ship finally disappeared beneath the water at 8.30pm about 200 miles offshore, west of Cape Town and outside South African territorial waters. The end came for […]

Baku | Wednesday DRUG trafficking from Afghanistan has increased since the start of the US-led military strikes there, Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov said on Tuesday during a meeting with his Azeri counterpart. ”Since the beginning of military operations in Afghanistan, drug traffickers have been trying to increase the volume of narcotics smuggled in (from […]