STEVEN SWINDELLS, Johannesburg | Tuesday CATHOLIC bishops from southern Africa on Monday condemned the use of condoms to fight the Aids pandemic gripping the continent, saying it was immoral and dangerous. The Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference wrapped up a seven-day meeting by denouncing the use of condoms, which they said destroyed moral fibre and […]
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Kgafela oa Magogodi’s poetry shocks many, directly addressing subjects such as Aids, sex and racism in hard-edged, often obscene language. He spoke to Themba ka Mathe.
AN Islamic court in Kebbi State, northern Nigeria, has sentenced a teenager to the amputation of one of his hands for stealing 32_000 naira (about $286) from a businessman, media organisations reported. Should the sentence be carried out, 15-year-old Abubakar Aliyu would become the first person in Kebbi to suffer amputation for theft since the […]
NINETEEN Zanu PF farm invaders at Chishaku Farm in Mvuma were last Friday convicted of armed robbery, housebreaking and theft and sentenced to effective jail terms ranging from one to three years. Shadreck Thomas, who led the invasions on Andrea Scheepers’ farm in November last year, was convicted of five counts involving public violence and […]
Johannesburg | Monday THE United States risked appearing indifferent about racism if it were to boycott the upcoming United Nations conference on the subject, South Africa’s director general of foreign affairs said on Sunday. “If they don’t come, people will read into it that they don’t see the issues as important. It will send a […]
NIGERIA is to get an early warning body by the end of the year to avert ethnic and other civil unrest The Guardian reported on Monday. The Lagos daily quoted the director of Conflict Prevention in the Presidency, Udenta O. Udenta as saying that government and the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution were thinking […]
THE United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) appealed on Wednesday for donor support for a $5-mllion emergency operation to help 200_000 people affected by malnutrition in Niger, where insufficient rains have led to poor harvests. Over 4_000 of the country’s 10_094 villages have food deficits of over 50%, WFP reported. More than one-third of Niger’s […]
ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe this week added three new seats to the Supreme Court by appointing three judges seen as stalwarts of Zanu-PF. Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said the additional judges are needed to handle litigation by white farmers “who are contesting and indeed frustrating the government’s land reform programme”, according to the report. White […]
BASILDON Peta, the secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ), yesterday said the suspension of the accreditation of British Broadcasting Corporation correspondents in Zimbabwe should be condemned by the international community. Peta said it was unfortunate that Professor Jonathan Moyo, the Minister of State for Information and Publicity in the Presidents Office was behaving […]