DREW FORREST AND BARRY STREEK, Johannesburg, Cape Town | Friday MBEKI’S address, at the inaugural ZK Matthews memorial lecture on October 12, makes no direct reference to the disease. However, after referring to medical schools where black people were ”reminded of their role as germ carriers”, he says: ”Thus does it happen that others who […]

The African Christian Democratic Party has been told religious drumming in South Africa will not benefit from arts and culture department funding. ”I did not commit myself to use funds of my department to finance the reintroduction of religious drumming in South Africa,” Arts and Culture Minister Dr Ben Ngubane said in written reply to […]

A SPY satellite was blasted into space late on Wednesday atop an Air Force Atlas II AS rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Floriday, a military representative said on Thursday. The satellite belonged to the National Reconnaissance Office, the intelligence agency responsible for the government’s spy satellites, said Lieutenant Colonel Joe Lamarca, a representative for the […]

THE United Nations, one of the biggest producers of words, celebrated its 56th birthday Wednesday with a ceremony that took place partly in silence: a performance by the French mime Marcel Marceau. Marceau, a goodwill ambassador for the UN Second World Assembly on Aging, to be held next year in Madrid, was to act six […]

TWO Johannesburg men were arrested on Wednesday afternoon after they were allegedly found in possession of 50 handgrenades, police said. Superintendent Norman Ponnusamy said the grenades were found in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, during a police undercover operation. He said details about the operation could not be divulged as more arrests were expected. A police […]

ALLOWING the killing of farmers to continue unabated would amount to sabotage, Safety and Security Steve Tshwete said on Thursday. ”Farmers are the lifeline of this country,” he told reporters at Midrand after a three-day conference on rural safety. ”Farmers are not just feeding the nation but are also earning us huge forex reserves.” The […]

SIX men were arrested on Friday night in Upington after a nine-month old baby was raped and indecently assaulted, Northern Cape police said. Captain Cherelle Ehlers said in a statement on Sunday that the baby girl’s 16-year-old mother left the child in another person’s care around 10pm on Saturday night while she went out to […]

JOHN Robinson, a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison zoology professor who uncovered fossils providing evidence of humans’ primitive beginnings, died last Friday. He was 78. Robinson was a native of South Africa who spent decades in the country’s Transvaal region uncovering hundreds of fossils that helped pinpoint and date the origin of the human race. Along […]

FOUR Eastern Cape Technikon students appeared in the Butterworth Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday in connection with the alleged assasination of provincial student leader Xola Nene on the campus on Monday. Police representative Sergeant Namhla Mdleleni said Ncebenkosi Sirenya (23) Luyanda Nogaga (23) Mncedisi Mazomba (20) and Mtunzi Ntutela (22) appeared on a murder charge. They […]

THOUSANDS of people marched through central London on Saturday to protest against the US and British bombing of Afghanistan. Police said about five thousand demonstrators, chanting ”No war, we want peace,” made their way from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square. ”We are sending a very clear message to (British Prime Minister Tony) Blair and (US […]