Johannesburg | Tuesday A South African Hindu woman who lives in New York has started wearing a crucifix around her neck for fear of victimisation in the aftermath of last week’s attacks on the United States, a newspaper reported Monday. Kamshana Singh (26) who works as an au pair in the city, told the Johannesburg-based […]

THE cultivation of qat (a mildly narcotic shrub, Catha edulis) is said to be expanding at an alarming rate in the northern Tigray State. Plots previously used for the cultivation of cereals and horticultural produce were now being used to grow qat, the pro-government Walta Information Centre reported on 14 September. Walta quoted a local […]

Cape Town | Wednesday ARSONISTS attacked the offices of a Cape Town-based Muslim organisation early on Wednesday, possibly as a result of the attacks on the United States, an organisation representative said. Muslim Judicial Council secretary general Achmat Sedick said petrol was poured on the double front doors of the building and set alight at […]

Harare | Wednesday JOURNALISTS Mduduu Muthutuu and Collin Chiwanza, photojournalist Urgurnia Mauluka and their driver, all staff of the independent Daily News newspaper in Zimbabwe, were attacked by so-called war veterans on September 17, 2001. According to reports from the Daily News, the journalists — in the company of collegues from other Harare newspapers — […]

A TOTAL of 1 101 South African prisoners died of HIV/Aids in the first seven months of this year, an increase of 328% over the same period last year, Correctional Services Minister Ben Skosana said on Tuesday. Documentation provided by Skosana during a briefing of journalists and diplomats at Parliament showed that the number of […]

ABOUT 250 pigs have died from a mysterious disease that has hit parts of the Southern Province of Zambia, a veterinary officer said. The disease broke out three weeks ago a veterinary officer, Panel Nyimba told state radio. People in the affected areas have been advised to stop eating pork since veterinary officers do not […]

A 33-YEAR old Sasolburg woman was arrested on Tuesday after she apparently thrown her five-year old daughter from a moving bakkie near Reitz, eastern Free State police said. Captain Veronica Ntepe said the driver of the bakkie was travelling between Reitz and Petrus Steyn around 10.30am on Tuesday when he saw the woman hitch-hiking with […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH Africa’s Industrial Development Corp (IDC) said on Monday it would not agree to an unbundling plan for steel producer Iscor until certain conditions were met. Iscor and the IDC have been in talks over the recapitalisation of their 50/50 joint venture Saldanha Steel, which needs to refinance more than R6-billion rand […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday THE South African bourse skidded to a negative close but way off earlier lows despite Wall Street plummeting five percent when it opened on Monday for the first time since last Tuesday’s US terror attacks. But dealers cautioned against reading too much into the domestic benchmark all-share index’s apparent resilience in the […]

Cape Town | Tuesday SA South African court on Monday remanded in custody two brothers suspected of posting a hoax e-mail on the Internet claiming that South Africans were involved in last week’s terrorist attacks on the United States. William and Christiaan Conradie will be kept in custody for two days to allow investigators time […]