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/ 21 September 2001
TWO men were arrested in Cape Town on Friday night in connection with a hoax email implicating South Africa in the terrorist attacks on the United States, police said on Saturday. Western Cape police commissioner Joseph Ngobeni said the men will appear in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Monday. According to email message called […]
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/ 21 September 2001
Harare | Friday ZIMBABWE’S parliament on Thursday approved a 17,5-billion dollar (about US $316-million) supplementary budget, state television reported, to help the government meet soaring expenses in a crumbling economy. Government expenses have risen 14% beyond what was planned for in the 2001 budget, the report said. The supplementary budget is to meet the shortfall […]
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/ 20 September 2001
Tinseltown’s icons are flayed alive by Basic Instinct scriptwriter Joe Eszterhas in his incendiary new novel, which melds politics and entertainment, writes Ed Vulliamy.
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/ 20 September 2001
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña</i> by David Hajdu (Bloomsbury).
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/ 20 September 2001
Today eggs and their mothers are a more complicated affair, writes Katy Bauer.
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/ 20 September 2001
Harare | Thursday A ZIMBABWEAN white farmer and 30 of his labourers have been formally charged in court with murder after violence when his land was invaded at the weekend, the government press reported on Thursday. John Bibby (70) had initially been accused of inciting violence and being an accessory to murder before the murder […]
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/ 20 September 2001
A NORTHERN Province man who allegedly stabbed his estranged common-law wife just moments after appearing in court for violating a protection order against him, was remanded in custody on Wednesday. Lazarus Sirovheli (36) of Madzhatsha village in Dzanani, near Thohoyandou, was not asked to plead on an attempted murder charge in the Dzanani Magistrate’s Court. […]
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/ 20 September 2001
Kabul | Thursday THOUSANDS of terrified Afghans have begun to flood into Pakistan, fleeing the twin spectres of famine and war haunting their homeland. Despite Pakistan’s attempts to close its long border with Afghanistan, at least 15 000 refugees have made it into Pakistan in the last week alone. Tens of thousands more are desperately […]
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/ 20 September 2001
Johannesburg | Thursday THE government will not be able to hold back the Medical Research Council’s report on Aids mortality in South Africa for much longer due to pressure for the paper to be released, the MRC said on Thursday. MRC representative Merle May said: “They can’t sustain the pressure. The people want the report.” […]