Islamabad | Tuesday RELIEF groups have delivered only eight percent of food aid urgently needed to sustain half a million starving Afghans through the looming winter, according to the World Food Program. They are the most desperate of more than six million Afghans dependent on international aid but even the luckier ones – about two […]

Bisho | Wednesday MORE than R1,6-million of the R2,136-million budgeted for crime prevention in the Eastern Cape has not been used, the Auditor General’s report on the safety and liaison department finances for 2000/2001 revealed on Monday. The report tabled at a standing committee for safety and liaison meeting said the unused money had been […]

Pretoria | Wednesday ONE of the three Mozambican immigrants who had dogs set on them by East Rand police last year filed an assault and abduction complaint after an incident on Monday night, SABC radio news reported on Wednesday. Sylvester Khosa said he was kidnapped and assaulted by four white men who identified themselves as […]

COLOMBIA is taking additional security measures to ensure it will not become a transit point for heroin from Afghanistan destined for users in the United States, a police official said on Monday. ”It is possible that narcotraffickers could use existing smuggling routes to try to bring heroin from Afghanistan to Mexico and the United States. […]

Washington | Monday US Muslim leaders have called on the administration of President George W. Bush to halt its bombing campaign against Afghanistan, in a marked departure from their earlier stance. A broad coalition of Muslim groups on the weekend urged the White House to ”urgently reassess its action in Afghanistan, and to cease the […]

Bloemfontein | Wednesday A 14-MONTH-old baby girl was raped, allegedly by her uncles, in Tweeling in the Eastern Free State on Tuesday. This is the second reported rape of an infant this week. The girl’s mother left her baby in the care of the men when she went to visit her mother-in-law, police representative Sergeant […]

Pretoria | Monday SOUTH African multi-national gold producer AngloGold showed a headline earnings increase of 19% (R637-million) in its report for the quarter ended September 30, released on Wednesday morning. This was the third successive improved quarter. The equivalent US dollar increase in headline earnings was 15%, or US76-million. This increase was before unrealised losses […]

A mutilated and badly decomposed body of an 11-year-old boy was found at Riverside Estate, north of Johannesburg, on Wednesday evening, police reported. Inspector Anton Breedt said the body was found by a worker at the estate. The child was reported missing on October 22. The boy’s hands, feet and genitals were missing. Breedt said […]

THE New National Party on Tuesday night announced its working group which is to talk to the African National Congress about possible co-operation. This follows the NNP’s decision to leave the Democratic Alliance in which its main partner was the Democratic Party. NNP representative Riaan Aucamp said the party’s team comprised its leader, Marthinus van […]

DEPUTY President Jacob Zuma will leave for Bujumbura, Burundi on Wednesday to attend the launch of the central African country’s transitional government. He will be accompanied by Intelligence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu and SA National Defence Force chief General Siphiwe Nyanda. Zuma has been assisting former South African president Nelson Mandela in establishing peace in Burundi, […]