Johannesburg | Monday THE South African Communist Party (SACP) reiterated its opposition to the government’s privatisation policies on Sunday, in another sign that the country’s ruling alliance is coming under strain. ”The privatisation frenzy threatens not just social security and sustainable economic growth, it also threatens the safety and moral character of the kind of […]

SEVEN people were killed and four critically wounded in taxi related violence near Mount Frere on Sunday evening, Eastern Cape police said on Monday. Superintendent Nondumiso Jafta said the incident occurred on the N2 between Mount Frere and Qumbu around 10pm. It appeared that occupants in another vehicle opened fire on the taxi while it […]

Harare | Sunday THE head of a UN team probing the looting of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo has talked to Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, who has sent up to 12_000 troops to the war-ravaged country. Egypt’s ambassador to the United Nations Mahmoud Kassem met with Mugabe on Friday for what state […]

Harare | Sunday HOMES belonging to farm workers and the offices on a white-owned farm in eastern Zimbabwe were burned down on Saturday, a farmers’ spokeswoman said, despite government’s promise to curb violence in the countryside. “It is confirmed the office complex and farm workers’ houses were burned down. We can confirm serious injuries to […]

Former president Nelson Mandela on Friday gave jailed student Andrew Babeile R20 000 to further his studies while in the Kimberley Prison, the African National Congress Youth League said.

THE chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir Farooq Abdullah on Friday slammed Islamic fanatics for driving a wedge between Muslims and other world religions. ”Islam doesn’t preach terrorism nor advocate it,” Abdullah told a group of police officers in Muslim-majority Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar. ”These fanatic groups have isolated Muslims from the other religions in the […]

Johannesburg | Sunday ACCORDING to a survey conducted by United States broadcaster CBS and the New York Times, a majority of Americans seem willing to impose on others sufferings very similar to those they have so recently endured themselves. The poll indicates that 68% of Americans are prepared to see innocent people killed in any […]

A SOUTH African man could face up to 25 years in jail for joking that he was carrying a bomb on a domestic airline flight, police said on Friday. The 40-year-old was arrested at Johannesburg airport on Thursday after he told a stewardess on a Nationwide airliner after take-off from Durban that he had a […]

The red, white and blue of US flags flew across the United States Thursday, as towns and cities rushed to line streets with the stars and stripes in a patriotic response to the worst terrorist attacks on US soil. Radio stations repeatedly played the national anthem and the country’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, sold 200 000 […]