ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe has left for Libya, where he is attending festivities marking the 32nd anniversary of the revolution that overthrew the Libyan monarchy. Mugabe left for Libya from Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo, where he opened a new mint ahead of the city’s mayoral race on September 8-9. While opening the mint, Mugabe […]

Johannesburg | Saturday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki has agreed to meet with leaders of the country’s largest trade union federation following a two-day general strike, the ruling party’s online publication said on Friday. Mbeki’s decision comes after a request for a meeting by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), which launched a […]

Tripoli | Sunday LIBYAN leader Muammer Kadhafi, speaking on the 32nd anniversary of the nation’s revolution on Saturday, said Washington’s inability to catch Saudi extremist Osama Bin Laden demonstrated that “crazy” Western powers cannot deal with the new nature of warfare. Kadhafi (59) also praised Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s controversial land reforms, and warned Sudan’s […]

EGYPTIAN customs officers have seized 85 200 Viagra-like anti-impotence pills at Cairo airport smuggled in from Syria, in the country’s largest ever such haul. The trafficker admitted trying to smuggle the pills, with a market price of about two million Egyptian pounds (about $500 000), on behalf of a Syrian living in Alexandria on Egypt’s […]

THREE women were charged late on Friday in connection with an alleged international prostitution ring suspected of trying to take 100 women from Senegal to Libya. The Senegalese government said this week that 100 women who were stopped from leaving Dakar to attend a cultural festival in Libya would have been victims of an international […]

A CACHE of weapons has been discovered in the central Angolan town of Cuito near the former residence of Unita rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, the Lusa news agency reported on Friday. Some 60 RPG-7 rockets, munitions, uniforms and food supplies believed to have been buried ten years ago were found on Thursday by workers digging […]

London | Sunday BRITAIN’S Queen Elizabeth II is to discuss the escalating crisis in Zimbabwe this weekend at her annual meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, British media reported on Sunday. According to The Mail on Sunday newspaper, the queen is understood to be concerned that growing violence in the former British colony will […]

A MAN handed himself over to police after his wife and son were shot dead in Alexandria, south of Grahamstown, in the early hours of Saturday morning. The man arrived at the Alexandria community police stationaround 2.15am on Saturday. He asked police for a drink of water and then handed the police a firearm — […]

MINISTERIAL labour representative Eddie Jayiya died on Thursday night, the Department of Labour said in Pretoria. It said the circumstances of death were still being investigated but initial reports indicated that he was shot dead around 9.30pm. Jayiya (44) was apparently on his way to the Tshepo Themba hospital in Dobsonville, Soweto. He was appointed […]

ZAMBIAN police on Thursday ordered more than 3 000 people who signed a petition calling President Frederick Chiluba a thief to surrender themselves for arrest. “All those who signed the petition consciously should report themselves to the police and put up their defamatory remarks against the president in writing,” said Lemmy Kajoba, police representative. Seven […]