JULIAN BORGER, EWEN MACASKILL, Washington | Friday AS far as President George W Bush is concerned, Osama bin Laden is “wanted dead or alive” for the September 11 outrages. The phrase harked back to a bygone Texan age when a lawman’s strong hunch would have been enough to dispatch a posse on the fugitive’s trail, […]

Cape Town | Friday POLICE fired stun grenades on Thursday at some 350 squatters south of Cape Town, after they tried to invade municipal land, a policeman said. Captain Jacques Wiese said residents of the Mandela Park squatter camp in Hout Bay, some “armed with spades and pangas” tore down a municipal fence and moved […]

BRENDAN BOYLE, Cape Town | Friday A COALITION of church, labour and civic groups challenged President Thabo Mbeki and his government on Thursday to acknowledge the scale of the HIV/Aids epidemic ravaging South Africa. “No one in our country can afford to deny the terrible extent of this epidemic,” the group said in a statement […]

Johannesburg | Friday SOUTH Africa’s black and white chambers of commerce formally merged on Thursday despite strong reservations from the black and Afrikaner business communities. The National African Chamber of Commerce (Nafcoc) and the South African Chamber of Business (Sacob) said in a statement that they had formed a transitional body called the South African […]

THE University of the North on Wednesday vehemently denied reports that students held weekend strip shows on campus. Student Representative Council (SRC) president Nation Mthenjane said no one had ever stripped on campus. He said posters had been put up advertising a strip show, but that it was a gimmick to advertise a student bash. […]

THE South African Department of Foreign Affairs has released an update on South Africans missing in New York who may have been affected by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. The department said it had sent a list of eight SA citizens to US authorities for confirmation that they are indeed […]

THE United Nations offices in Pretoria were evacuated on Wednesday after police sniffer dogs reacted to two vehicles in the basement car park during a routine check, UN official John Ohiorhenuan said. The bomb squad was brought in and police evacuated everyone as a precaution, he said, but after a thorough search nothing suspicious was […]

AMERICANS who don’t support calls for war have started a petition which appears on the web here. The petition calls for the US to use moderation in its response to the terror attacks on New York and the Pentagon, to respect international institutions in makings its response, and to judge carefully the level of accountability […]

The US and its coalition against terrorism is moving into position near Afghanistan Mail & Guardian reporters By air and sea, the United States and Britain were building up their military presence on Thursday in the Gulf and hundreds of thousands of Afghans rushed to their borders to find they had been almost completely sealed […]

If the US co-operates with an African dictatorship, it is guilty of propping up an African tyrant; if it opposes the dictatorship, it is guilty of imposing American ideas of democracy on Africa; if it does nothing at all, it is guilty of “marginalising” the country. If the US acts, it is wrong; if it […]