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, […]

Harare | Wednesday WITH no end in sight to violence on Zimbabwe’s white-owned farms, lawyers for farm workers are increasingly worried over the fate of tens of thousands of workers and their families, who have effectively disappeared. Pro-government militants, who have occupied farms for 20 months now, have blocked off huge swaths of the countryside, […]

A TWO-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his father at their home in Bekkersdal, Westonaria on Sunday evening, West Rand police reported on Monday. Captain Paula Nothnagel said Nkosikhulu Qulu (37) put his firearm underneath a pillow in his bedroom around 6.45pm while preparing to go to bed. The boy took the firearm and pointed […]

Washington | Tuesday TERRORISTS may attack targets in the United States or US interests abroad ”over the next week,” US Attorney General John Ashcroft warned on Monday, putting US law enforcement and the public on the highest state of alert. ”The administration has concluded, based on information developed, that there may be additional terrorist attacks […]

Washington | Tuesday US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accused the Taliban and al-Qaeda of using Afghan civilians as human shields and blamed the US foes for ”every single casualty” of the war in Afghanistan. Rumsfeld’s counterattack this week came amid growing uneasiness among leaders in Muslim countries over the toll in civilian lives from US […]