MPUMALANGA may be home to the first black leopard spotted in sub-Saharan Africa in 40 years. Mpumalanga Parks Board representative Gary Sutter said on Monday that two confirmed sitings of a rare black leopard had been reported in mountains in Lydenburg in January and again in May. “It’s an ordinary leopard, but it has a […]

LAMIA RADI, Cairo | Wednesday EGYPTIAN students, taxi drivers and shopkeepers crowded round television sets stacked up in electrical store windows in downtown Cairo on Tuesday evening, celebrating a string of elaborate attacks on New York and Washington. “Bullseye,” commented two taxi drivers as they watched footage of the twin towers of the World Trade […]

JOHN SPECK, London | Wednesday THE destruction of the World Trade Center in New York on Tuesday effectively paralysed the US financial system but on Wednesday the rest of the global capitalist system fought huge headaches and carried on. ”I do not thing New York being closed will make any real difference to the world […]

Beijing | Wednesday PEOPLE on the streets of Chinese cities reacted with shock on Wednesday to the terror attacks which struck New York and Washington, but some argued the US was reaping the returns of its own foreign policies. Newspaper stands across Beijing and elsewhere were stripped bare of papers by early morning as passers-by […]

AT least eight people were killed when an Intercity bus overturned between Qumbu and Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape on Monday evening. Police representative Superintendent Faith Noqayi said the accident appeared to have occurred around 8pm. – Sapa

Kabul | Wednesday A SERIES of explosions rocked Afghanistan’s capital Kabul early on Wednesday but US officials swiftly denied they were retaliatory strikes for terror attacks in the United States. An AFP reporter in the city heard seven or eight large blasts followed by what sounded like anti-aircraft fire and Taliban militia jets taking off […]

THE terror attacks in the United States that reduced New York’s landmark World Trade Center to flaming rubble and set the Pentagon ablaze were a ”lesson for all tyrants and oppressors”, an official Iraqi newspaper said on Wednesday. Under the headline ”America burns”, Al-Iraq said that ”what happened in the United States yesterday is a […]

A 31-year-old man was arrested in Inanda north of Durban on Monday after he allegedly killed a woman and her son with an axe, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Superintendent Vasie Naidoo said the man, believed to be mentally disturbed, argued with his younger brother on Sunday night. The woman gave the boy clothes and told him […]

A 16-year old girl convicted of killing penguins will be sentenced in the East London Magistrate’s Court on Thursday after pleading guilty to charges of malicious damage to property and a contravention of the Animal Protection Act. The girl, who may not be named as she is a minor, confessed to being involved in the […]

Dubai | Wednesday THE United Arab Emirates and the United States have no evidence that any UAE nationals were aboard hijacked planes that smashed into US buildings on Tuesday, a UAE government source said on Wednesday. The source said the UAE had been in touch with Washington over a report in a US newspaper that […]