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 […]

PETER CUNLIFFE-JONES, Lagos | Thursday ARMED mobs went on the rampage in two Nigerian cities on Wednesday in clashes between Christians and Muslims and a newspaper reported at least 500 people had died in five days of violence. Clashes which erupted on Friday in the central city of Jos between rampaging gangs of Christian and […]

MARJORIE OLSTER, New York | Thursday HOPES were fading on Thursday that more survivors would be found from an attack two days earlier that demolished the World Trade Center towers, now feared to be a mass tomb where thousands may be buried. The preliminary death toll had reached 82 by early Thursday but was expected […]