Durban | Monday FOUR tons of chicken, four tons of lamb, one and half tons of pasta, Danish pastries, croissants, African dishes and Durban’s famous curries are on the menu to cater for the thousands of delegates to the World Conference Against Racism. ”But, we will not serve anything as exotic as crocodile,” says Markus […]
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NIGERIAN police have arrested the outlaw leader of a banned militant organisation 20 months after he was declared wanted following bloody riots in which hundreds of people died. Police arrested Ganiyu Adams, the leader of the most hard line faction of the banned Odua People’s Congress (OPC) on Tuesday. Adams was arrested as he led […]
PROMOTERS have canned hip-hop megastar Lauryn Hill from a tour of South Africa later this month because she failed to show up for concerts in the United States and Jamaica. Eargasm Entertainment representative Melanie Ramjee said Hill did not appear at the New York leg of the Black August concert tour which took place on […]
NIGERIA plans to work with authorities in Africa and Europe to bring back home trafficked women and children, President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Wednesday. Obasanjo was speaking at meeting at the presidential villa here with a group of 32 young women, and one young man, who were returned to Nigeria last week from Guinea. Speaking […]
The Mail & Guardian’s status as South Africa’s fastest-growing quality newspaper was confirmed this week with the release of the latest All Media Product Survey (Amps).The M&G now boasts 230 000 readers, according to Amps 2001A. This represents a 16,1% growth in readership over the previous survey. The M&G has shown a circulation growth of […]
A WESTERN animal welfare body urged the Kenyan government on Wednesday to block a Canadian mining company from building a ship-loading facility on the Kenyan coast, warning it could endanger local marine life. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw) cautioned that Tiomin Resources Inc. of Canada would cause serious environmental damage in Shimoni, a […]
London | Saturday ZIMBABWE has decreed that most of its soldiers killed in fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) be buried in the jungle rather than come home in body bags, according to an officer quoted in a British newspaper on Saturday. “Top officers have instructed that a greater majority of those who […]
A COLOUR calendar depicting the gruesome vigilante killing of a suspected armed robber hit the streets of Lagos on Thursday and was enjoying brisk sales, witnesses said. Shoppers at the popular Oshodi market jostled with each other to buy the calendar, bearing a picture of the killing on Wednesday last week, when vigilantes crucified and […]
London | Sunday PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe aims to expel all white farmers from Zimbabwe before next year’s elections, the Sunday Telegraph reported, citing a secret document which outlines the plans. The British broadsheet said a secret order from Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party to self-styled war veterans outlines the political goals of the campaign being waged against […]