Paris | Saturday ACCORDING to information gathered by Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF – Reporters Without Borders), members of Malawi’s youth league of the ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) assaulted Brian Ligomeka, correspondent of the South-African agency African Eye News Service, on 12 August 2001. The journalist was covering the arrival of foreign heads of state […]
Harare | Saturday ZIMBABWE may declare a state of emergency if a bill is passed in Washington that threatens sanctions against the country, Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge said on Friday. He told state television in an interview that Zimbabwe would campaign against the bill, but if it failed to stop its passage into law, a […]
An HIV/Aids state of emergency should be declared in all African countries, the Archbishop of Cape Town, Njongonkulu Ndungane, said on Thursday. The recommendation formed part of a plan developed at the All Africa Anglican Conference in Boksburg. ”As in a state of war, all government agencies should be in a state of alert,” he […]
Johannesburg | Sunday SOME Alexandra students may not have the smartest uniforms and latest textbooks, but they have a link to the world of technology through their newly opened Cyber Lab Project. Minerva High School in Alexandra north of Johannesburg on Saturday celebrated the official opening of their fully equipped computer centre which will give […]
THE trial of a man alleged to have placed a video camera in the ceiling of a bathroom to take footage of women in the nude was postponed again in the Strand Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Fanie Terblanche is said to have set up the camera in a house he shared with a woman in […]
Johannesburg | Saturday THE New York based Ringing Rocks Foundation donated R3,5-million to digitise the University of the Witwatersrand’s extensive rock art archives, the university announced this week. The university’s Rock Art Research Institute (Rari) has the largest archives of rock art materials housed anywhere in the world. ”The donation will fund the establishment of […]
on Saturday in connection with the murder of a 45-year-old colleague at a shebeen in Mankweng outside Pietersburg, Northern Province police reported. Police representative, Inspector Peter Mailula, said the victim was killed instantly by a bullet which went off while the two teachers were fighting over a gun — hitting him on the head. Mailula […]
NO less than 52% of severely injured patients admitted to the casualty section of the Johannesburg Hospital are HIV, The Citizen reported on Thursday. The figures were collected by Professor Ken Boffard, on the basis of blind sampling of blood drawn from patients over the last year. The figures cannot be accurately extrapolated to the […]
Harare | Saturday ZIMBABWE may declare a state of emergency if a bill is passed in Washington that threatens sanctions against the country, Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge said on Friday. He told state television in an interview that Zimbabwe would campaign against the bill, but if it failed to stop its passage into law, a […]
POLICE in Botswana’s Thamaga Village are investigating an incident case in which a 40-year-old pastor of the Botswana Babirwa New Jerusalem Church drowned while baptising his followers. It is reported that the congregation had a night vigil the day before and the following morning went to a nearby river for a baptism ceremony. The pastor, […]