THE Commonwealth of Britain and its former colonies on Friday postponed its summit in Australia after the leaders of Britain, Canada and India pulled out because of the suicide hijacking attacks on the United States. Australian Prime Minister John Howard said the Commonwealth had decided there was little point in holding its October 6-9 meeting […]

A TEST of the Taliban’s anti-aircraft guns sent residents of Afghanistan’s capital scurrying for cover on Friday, panicked into thinking the United States was attacking. Bursts of continuous firing erupted from positions in the hills around Kabul, where Taliban fighters have dug in air defences against expected US attacks. A Taliban official confirmed the firing […]

Johannesburg | Sunday DF MALAN drive officially ceased to exist on Sunday morning when Johannesburg unicity mayor Amos Masondo snipped a ribbon renaming the road Beyers Naude Drive. A plaque commemorating the renaming was also unveiled outside the Wespark cemetery. The 86-year-old Naude was not able to attend the ceremony due to ill health, but […]

A PREVIOUSLY unknown Islamic militant group is threatening the United States and its allies with a ”fierce and relentless war,” according to a statement on Wednesday. The statement, sent by the London-based Muslim human rights group, the Islamic Observation Center, was identified as coming from the Islamic Army for the Liberation of Islamic Holy Sites […]

SIZWE SAMAYENDE, Nelspruit | Friday AN angry Mpumalanga woman who believes she has been betrayed by the country’s justice system is quietly making history by suing the two men who allegedly raped and impregnated her. The 21-year-old teaching graduate decided to take up the fight on her own after police bungled the criminal investigation and […]

FIVE of the seven South Africans who went missing after the September 11 terror attacks on the United States are alive and have been accounted for, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday. Representative Ronnie Mamoepa said the five had contacted their families. One of the two that were still missing was thought to […]

LIFE for the last Taliban ambassador is becoming decidedly lonely. Before the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington blamed on Afghanistan’s ”guest” Osama bin Laden, US diplomats in Pakistan occasionally met Abdul Salam Zaeef, ambassador for Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban. Not now. When US ambassador Wendy Chamberlin arrived at a dinner on Wednesday night, […]

ADRIAN CROFT, Islamabad | Tuesday A EUROPEAN Union mission will tell leaders of five Muslim countries this week that the war on terrorism involves the whole world and is not a war on Islam, an EU official said on Tuesday. ”We want to make it absolutely clear that the campaign against terrorism…is a campaign for […]

New York | Wednesday NEW York Mayor Rudy Giuliani warned grieving families that thousands of bodies missing in the charred ruins of the World Trade Center would never be recovered. ”We are going to end up in a situation where we do not recover a significant number of human remains, so people have to focus […]

CHANTING anti-US and Israel slogans about 250 students at the University of Witwatersrand marched on campus to protest against a United States president George W Bush’s ”war talk”. Slogans such as ”The Zionist must go” and ”Phansi (down with) Israel” were chanted while the students who are members of the Muslim Students Association carried banners […]