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/ 21 November 2001
Algiers | Wednesday A POWERFUL bomb blast wounded 29 people, four seriously, early on Tuesday at a bus station crowded with students in the Algerian capital, medical sources and witnesses said. The attack, using a homemade bomb which was concealed in a briefcase, came on the fourth day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, […]
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/ 21 November 2001
GERMAN condom maker Condomi said on Tuesday it planned to move into the South African market where it would open a factory to turn out 100 million condoms per year. To this end it was setting up a joint venture, Condomi Africa Ltd, with partners Ferrostaal Investments South Africa and the “Black Empowerment” consortium, which […]
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/ 21 November 2001
A EUROPEAN Union delegation headed by Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel on Tuesday headed for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for a regional tour to promote peace. The team will “sound out the rival parties on the prospects for progress on outstanding issues in the Lusaka process and the Arusha process” — meaning peace […]
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/ 21 November 2001
A 72-year-old priest was killed by a stray bullet in Durban on Tuesday afternoon, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Wednesday. Captain Vishnu Naidoo said the shooting occurred in Brickfield Road, Springfield near the Essendene Temple around 4pm. A 30-year-old man had seen a person trying to steal his Toyota Venture and opened fire. The alleged thief […]
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/ 21 November 2001
Cape Town | Wednesday CAPE Town’s mayor Peter Marais resigned on Wednesday afternoon, shortly after the Cape High Court restored both his party membership and his mayoral chain. ”The choice I have to make is between a DA (Democratic Alliance) mayoral chair or an uncertain future. However to remain as mayor I would be required […]
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/ 21 November 2001
Islamabad | Thursday PAKISTAN has ordered a special watch on its border with Afghanistan in case terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden tries to slip across, officials said on Thursday. With pressure mounting on the Taliban headquarters in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, next to the Pakistan border, a top Pakistan government official said troops […]
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/ 21 November 2001
EIGHT prisoners were being treated at the Livingstone public hospital in Port Elizabeth after being injured in a gang fight at the prison on Monday. The eight were among 30 others who were injured in the fight which broke out in the St Albans prison complex around 11pm on Monday. Correctional services department representative Tembisa […]
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/ 20 November 2001
After several years in the salt mines of fashion, chill-out music is suddenly hip again. Television-advertised down-tempo compilations are even outselling the annual bangin’ Ibiza collections. If one band has a claim to kickstarting the chill-out revival, it’s Groove Armada.
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/ 20 November 2001
Born in South Africa, Lindsey Collen has lived in Mauritius since 1974 and has been a controversial figure there for her espousal of women’s rights. Though her novel, <i>The Rape of Sita</i> (1994), won the prestigious Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, it was banned in Mauritius where Muslim pressure groups objected to its forceful feminism.
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/ 20 November 2001
Pretoria | Tuesday FOUR of six white South African policemen were convicted on Monday for setting their dogs on three suspected illegal immigrants from Mozambique, saying it was done to train their dogs to bite humans. The six men were arrested in November last year after sickening video footage of the attack was shown on […]