THIRTY Mpumalanga primary school children are pushing a go-cart for a gruelling 2 000 km from Komatipoort to Cape Town as part of an crime awareness campaign. The 18-day race started at 7am on Monday and the children were headed for Middelburg on Wednesday. The children hope to reach the mother city on October 6. […]

Beirut | Thursday THE supreme leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban militia has said Osama bin Laden, the key suspect in last week’s terrorist attacks on the United States, ”will be the last to leave Afghanistan,” a newspaper reported Thursday. Asharq al-Awsat, an Arabic-language daily published in London, quoted Mullah Mohammed Omar as saying ”Bin Laden will […]

CHRIS STETKIEWICZ, Seattle | Wednesday BOEING said on Tuesday it would lay off between 20 000 and 30 000 workers in its commercial jet unit by the end of 2002 in anticipation of a sharp drop in orders from a troubled airline industry rocked by last week’s attacks on New York and Washington. Boeing, the […]

Johannesburg | Wednesday LAST month’s two-day national strike organised by the Congress of SA Trade Unions had little impact on the economy, according to Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe. Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, he said although the full impact was not yet known, figures supplied by the country’s parastatals showed relatively few workers had […]

Kabul | Tuesday AFGHANISTAN’S ruling purist Taliban movement has said it will launch a jihad, or holy war, against the United States, according to a broadcast on the Taliban’s Voice of Shariat radio monitored by the BBC. ”I would like to tell my people that our jihad will be formally resuming against the Americans,” the […]

Kabul | Wednesday TALIBAN leader Mullah Mohammad Omar said on Wednesday alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden would not be extradited without evidence, adding US allegations against him were a pretext to wage war on Islam. Several US efforts to show them evidence, and the convictions of several of bin Laden’s associates in New York earlier […]

Washington | Wednesday THE United States has reached out to Cuba and Sudan, two countries it deems “state sponsors of terrorism,” as it moves to build a global anti-terror coalition after last week’s strikes, the State Department said on Tuesday. Secretary of State Colin Powell called Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail on Monday to discuss […]

SOUTH Africa is designing a “very comprehensive security strategy” for the Earth Summit in Johannesburg next year, an organiser said on Tuesday. The environmental summit is expected to attract more than 50 000 delegates, including close to more than 100 heads of state and government. Johannesburg World Summit Company head Moss Mashishi told a parliamentary […]