THIRTEEN members of the rebel Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) were killed after infiltrating Burundi from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an army source said on Friday. The Hutu rebels had crossed the border and were on the outskirts of the town of Kabezi, just south of the capital Bujumbura, when they […]
ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba’s electoral campaign chief has defected to the newly-formed opposition Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD), the latter’s party chairman said on Wednesday. Paul Tembo was deputy secretary general of the governing Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) and was campaign manager for Chiluba’s controversial third term re-election bid. ”He came to see […]
OUTGOING International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Juan Antonio Samaranch on Thursday called for more African members to be elected to the body and urged the continent to make another Olympic bid. Speaking at the end of the Associations of National Olympic Committees of Africa (Anoca) general assembly, Samaranch also urged his successor to support Africa […]
FORMER dictator of one of South Africa’s now-dismantled apartheid homeland states was in a serious condition on Thursday after being shot during an apparent robbery attempt, police said. Brigadier Oupa Gqozo, who ruled the small Ciskei homeland on the southeast coast before the entity was dismantled at the country’s first democratic elections in 1994, was […]
Bollywood’s biggest-budget movie ever, <i>Lagaan</i>, premiers this weekend, coinciding with the International Indian Film Academy Awards at Sun City. Leading lady <b>Rachel Shelley</b> chronicles months of tears and passion in the Indian desert.
The Mummy was one of the most enjoyable pieces of hokum of the mid-1999 season, and a huge hit. Now writer-director Stephen Sommers has followed it up with <b>The Mummy Returns</b>.
There’s nothing sentimental about globalisation and South Africa cannot afford to pass up an opportunity to steal ahead of competitors. With the Asian Tigers fumbling and Latin America headed for trouble, South Africa’s time has arrived. In the wake of the emerging market crisis in 1997/1998 South Africa emerged robust compared with its emerging-market peers. […]
whipping boy One of my favourite movies is Forrest Gump, the story of a fool who couldn’t lose. And anyone foolish enough to take the advice of this column last week will know the feeling. Having always been aware that boastfulness is evidence of a flawed character, especially in tipsters, I desisted after casually pointing […]
Moves are under way to address the public transport crisis, especially to get unroadworthy taxis off the roads. Glenda Daniels reports South Africa is on a massive collision course if the overhaul of the taxi industry does not speed up, if more money is not spent on roads and if plans to close sections of […]
David Macfarlane Rhodes University has delivered a further blow to hopes of dealing with the HIV/Aids pandemic in its region by slapping a high court injunction on dismissed academic Dr Robert Shell to return computer equipment, without which Shell’s research will cease. “Any outcome that has the effect of closing down [Shell’s] research and silencing […]