Children are traumatised by high levels of crime, domestic violence andthe impact of death and suffering in their families due to HIV/Aids Charlene Smith The question to 850 children at a schools’ drama festival in Johannesburg last week was: ”How many of you have been present during an armed robbery?” Half raised their hands. The […]

New York | Friday AMERICAN authorities have arrested two teams of men at New York airports – said to be armed with knives and carrying fake identification papers. In foiling what they feared was a second wave of attacks yesterday, authorities said they took into custody four men and a woman at John F. Kennedy […]

Johannesburg | Friday WHILE the world economy is slowing, South Africa’s is actually doing very well, Tradek economist Mike Schussler said on Friday. ”The problem is that most South Africans are not getting this positive message and this is probably the fault of the economists and analysts,” he said. ”Our exports have grown at over […]

PETER COONEY, Washington, New York | Friday AMERICANS prepared on Friday to commemorate the victims of the worst attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor, while the nation’s leaders studied options for military retaliation. President George W. Bush, proclaiming a national day of prayer and remembrance for the thousands believed killed in Tuesday’s assault […]

ZIMBABWE medical authorities have begun incinerating nine million condoms deemed defective after they failed to pass pressure tests, state television reported late on Wednesday. The Medicine Control Authority expects it to take two weeks to burn all the condoms, the report said. The condoms were declared faulty months ago after some were found to leak […]

ANGOLAN rebels killed 25 people and injured 27 others in two attacks in the southern Huambo province this week, said the Roman Catholic radio station Ecclesia. The radio said rebels from the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) on Tuesday attacked the village of Longonjo in Huambo province, killing 24 villagers and […]

WILLIAM O BEEMAN, Providence, Rhode Island | Thursday THE United States risks a severe miscalculation in dealing with the destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon on Tuesday. The root cause is not terrorist activity, as has been widely stated. It is the relationship between the United States and the […]