Johannesburg | Monday THE Zimbabwe government on Sunday said a story in the British Sunday Telegraph alleging that President Robert Mugabe had hatched a plan to expel white farmers from the country before next year’s presidential polls amounted to “idiocy”. Information Minister Jonathan Moyo said he preferred not to comment on such “idiocy” because doing […]
Lisbon | Sunday AN attack by armed men against a bus carrying about 100 passengers caused an undetermined number of fatalities and left about 12 people injured, Portugal’s Lusa news agency said on Sunday. The attack took place on Friday near Cacolo, about 30 kilometres from the town of Malange, capital of the province of […]
TUNISIAN human rights activist and torture victim Said Ferjani on Saturday condemned the appointment of General Habib Ammar as head of the committee organising the Mediterranean Games as “an insult to all victims of his torture.” “It is an insult to all honest people, to all victims, that a torturer could head such an organization,” […]
Johannesburg | Monday THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) on Sunday suspended “until further notice” a crippling three-week strike in the automobile industry, after employers agreed to raise wages by nine percent. Numsa’s secretary general Silumko Nondwangu told a press conference that “substantive progress has been made in reaching an agreement”. Nondwangu […]
NILE floods in Sudan have destroyed hundreds of homes and left thousands of families homeless this flood season. The worst affected area was River Nile State in northern Sudan where 1 102 families were left without shelter when floods tore down 577 homes in 55 villages and partially damaged 811 others, the civil defence report […]
Johannesburg | Monday THE row between the South African government and the country’s biggest trade union federation Cosatu grew on Sunday as the union rejected President Thabo Mbeki’s accusations that it was spreading lies about the state’s privatisation plan. The Congress of South African Trade Unions’ representative Patrick Craven told a press conference in Johannesburg: […]
AN epileptic man who suffered a fit while crossing a railway line on Friday narrowly escaped death when a train drove over him. Mndawe Simon Mkhabela (24) had fallen on the tracks at about 10am, 1km from the Kaapmuiden station near Malelane in Mpumalanga. Mkhabela, who lives in Matsulu, was on his way to a […]
SIX scantily-clad girls caused a massive tail-back on the beach-side road in Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Alexandria as drivers slowed down to gawp as they strolled along in their bathing costumes, Al-Wafd newspaper reported on Sunday. Police tried to restore order by escorting the girls into a shop and asking them to put some clothes […]
CARNAGE continued on the Nigerian roads this weekend when 61 people died in two separate accidents as buses plunged off bridges, witnesses and reports said. Forty-nine people were killed and 23 were recovering in hospital on Sunday after an overnight bus, travelling from Lagos to the northern city of Kano, blew a tyre and plunged […]
MORE than 170 Tanzanian Muslims were being held in police cells on Saturday after being arrested on Friday while protesting the jailing of a preacher convicted of disparaging Christianity, police said. Dar es Salaam Regional Police Commander Alfred Tibaigana said that 145 men and 26 women were taken into custody during the demonstration. He added […]