A DUTCH couple who spent three years working alongside exiled African National Congress cadres living in a Tanzanian camp have created a website which attempts to reconstruct the camp. The website is intended to become a database of personal histories, photographs, maps, plans and other information about the camp. Bing Mller and Gea Mulder were […]

Cape Town | Tuesday A majority of black South Africans surveyed believe that whites are racist and untrustworthy and find it hard to imagine ever being friends with them, according to findings of a poll released on Monday. The survey, carried out for the Cape Town-based Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR), also found that […]

Jeremy Lovell, Windsor | Wednesday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki, ending the first day of his first state visit to Britain on Tuesday, thanked his royal hosts and the country for support since the end of apartheid seven years ago. “We know it as a matter of fact that Her Majesty, the rest of the […]

NIGERIAS President Olusegun Obasanjo has sacked four ministers including his minister for communications, officials said on Tuesday. The four ministers to be fired were Communications Minister Mohammed Arzika, Water Resources Minister Mohammed Arzika, and the deputy ministers for the capital territory and for power and steel, officials said in a statement. Four senior advisers, including […]

THE Canadian House of Commons unanimously passed a resolution on Tuesday granting honorary citizenship to former South African president Nelson Mandela. The resolution was passed just days after a member of the right-wing opposition Canadian Alliance, Rob Anders, used a procedural tactic to block the house from giving Mandela the honour. It was jointly moved […]

GENERIC antiretrovirals will from Tuesday be given to 76 Kenyan orphans who have tested HIV-positive, under a ground-breaking programme, said a priest spearheading the project. Father Angelo D’Agostino said the programme, in which drugs donated by a Brazilian company are to be used, would be instituted at Nairobi’s Nyumbani orphanage, which he runs. The medicine, […]

A 10-year-old Egyptian girl emerged unscathed on Sunday despite falling off the roof of a six-storey apartment building while flying a kite, police said. Marwa Tohami surprised neighbours, who expected her to die when she hit the ground, by picking herself up and running back upstairs to the roof of the building in her working […]

A SCHOOL headmaster and his four-year-old son have been killed in Gasenyi, northern Burundi, by rebels from the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD), an official said on Monday. The official, in the neighbouring borough of Rango, said the FDD had killed Macaire Bizimana because he refused to collaborate with them. On June 2 […]

FOUR people died and three were missing after their boat sank off Cabinda in north Angola, Portugal’s Lusa news agency reported Monday. Fourteen people were rescued after the incident on Saturday. The vessel sank in heavy seas after leaving the port of Cabinda for the town of Soyo in the Angolan province of Zaire. – […]

Pretoria | Wednesday A SENIOR arms official on Wednesday ruled out the possibility that bias or manipulation could have influenced the final selection of suppliers in South Africa’s multi-billion dollar arms deal. “There was no possibility of bias,” David Griesel, acquisition head of former state-owned arms manufacturer Armscor, told a public probe into alleged corruption […]