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 […]
Johannesburg | Saturday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki accused the country’s main trade union federation on Friday of joining hands with rightists and using workers as cannon fodder. His comments in the Internet publication “ANC Today” follow a sharp attack by the cabinet on Thursday on plans by the Congress of South African Trade Unions […]
THE outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Zimbabwe could enter South Africa between the Sand River and Kruger National Park where the border fence was washed away during the 1999 floods, warned Northern Province premier Ngoako Ramathlodi. He said the large stretch of fence had never been repaired. “This is cause of concern because […]
A SOUTH African national was jailed for 10 years in Perth on Thursday for importing heroin worth a million dollars ($500_000), which he carried in body packs on a flight from Johannesburg. Zamokuhie Mpumelelo Mkwanazi, a 23-year-old data entry clerk for South African Airways’ (SAA) frequent flyer program, pleaded guilty to concealing almost one kilogram […]