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/ 26 November 2001
AILING former Defence Minister Joe Modise (72) was in a stable condition on Sunday, and is being treated for a malignant disease at his home. The family has requested that no visits should be paid at this stage to give him time to recover. It has been reported that Modise is ailing from terminal cancer. […]
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/ 25 November 2001
LIBYAN leader Muammer Gaddafi proposed on Wednesday repatriating the hold-out Arab fighters for the Taliban in the northern Afghanistan city of Kunduz, in order to avert a massacre. If they were sent home, the Arab fighters, mostly Islamic militants, would “be judged and treated like other prisoners of war under UN supervision,” Gaddaffi was quoted […]
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/ 25 November 2001
NIGERIA and South Africa are expected to sign a military training pact, A Nigerian defence representative said on Wednesday. Ganiyu Adewale said the date and scope of the military training were still being worked out. Nigerian defence chief Ibrahim Ogohi said Nigeria will soon start the exchange of naval cadets with South Africa. The countries […]
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/ 25 November 2001
PAUL KIRK, Durban | Friday INDEPENDENT Newspapers’ Durban operation has been accused of fraudulently inflating circulation figures by as many as 7 000 copies in a single day. The damning claim has been made by the largest trade union operating in the group’s Durban operation, the Media Workers Association of South Africa (Mwasa), which has, […]
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/ 25 November 2001
PAUL KIRK, Durban | Friday CHIPPY Shaik, the suspended Department of Defence procurement chief, was allowed to make significant changes to the September 2000 arms report the auditor general submitted to Parliament. One alteration – relating to the contract to supply corvette components – clearly served the interests of a contractor in which Shaik’s brother […]
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/ 25 November 2001
A MALAWIAN minister said on Wednesday the Danish ambassador to Malawi was recalled to his country in October because he was “rude” to President Bakili Muluzi. Finance minister Mathews Chikaonda said that Danish ambassador Orla Bakdal was recalled to Copenhagen for “mannerisms against the head of state.” “It had nothing to do with development aid,” […]
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/ 25 November 2001
South Africa is to ban the use of plastic bags in a bid to rid the country of litter, the country’s government announced on Wednesday. The ban on the flimsy bags, handed out free to shoppers at all major stores, will be phased-in over the coming months after the South African Cabinet agreed in principle […]
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/ 25 November 2001
HEALTH experts from seven central African countries held talks on Tuesday in Bangui aimed at relaunching a regional campaign against African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness. At the talks in the Central African capital, the experts condemned the slack efforts to combat the illness, transmitted by the tse-tse fly, in the region over the past ten […]
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/ 25 November 2001
KWAZULU-Natal police have found the bodies of two men believed to have been killed five days ago at a shack at the Shaya Moya squatter camp in Ixopo. Outside the shack several 9mm cartridges were found. Captain Vishnu Naidoo on Thursday said Mfaniseni Cele, 41, and Du Dlamini (29) were last seen alive last Saturday, […]
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/ 25 November 2001
THE Amazon, which today represents a quarter of the planet’s forests and is one of its most diverse reserves of plants and animals, could disappear within the next 50 years, environmental pressure group Greenpeace warned on Tuesday. At the current rate of destruction, the Amazon will be reduced in 50 years time to scattered clumps […]