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 […]

THE SA Chamber of Business (Sacob) on Wednesday called for calm within the South African financial sectors in the aftermath of terror attacks in the United States on Tuesday. Sacob said in a statement it would support any measures monetary authorities and the JSE Security Exchange might take to soften the impact on the South […]

GRIFFIN SHEA, Harare | Tuesday PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and five other southern African leaders worked late into the night on Monday to resolve Zimbabwe’s long-running political and economic crisis, meeting with a cross-section of Zimbabwean society. The talks are the broadest ever aimed at resolving the crisis, with the presidents of Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, […]

SOUTH Africa’s Nedcor, one of the country’s four main commercial banks, said on Monday it was issuing two billion rands worth of notes, in the country’s largest corporate issue to date. The bank said the issue was being used to raise its capital adequacy ratio and give it the necessary cash to take advantage of […]

Geneva | Tuesday SIX-year old statistics used by President Thabo Mbeki to claim that HIV/Aids is not the leading cause of death in South Africa underestimate the real impact of the disease, the UN agency dealing with the disease said on Tuesday. UNAids also said deaths from the immune deficiency disease in South Africa had […]