Bangui | Saturday SUMMARY executions are being carried out daily in the Central African Republic following a failed coup bid, sowing terror among members of the Yakoma ethnic group who are being targeted, witnesses claimed. The authorities condemn the killings and claim not to have a hand in them. They blame renegade security force members […]
BARRY STREEK, GLENDA DANIELS and DAVID MACFARLANE, Johannesburg | Friday COLEMAN Andrews offered to resign eight months ago as CEO of South African Airways (SAA), because he was frustrated with government and Transnet interference in the running of the airline – but he was persuaded to stay on for longer by former Transnet managing director […]
THIRTEEN members of the rebel Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) were killed after infiltrating Burundi from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an army source said on Friday. The Hutu rebels had crossed the border and were on the outskirts of the town of Kabezi, just south of the capital Bujumbura, when they […]
ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba’s electoral campaign chief has defected to the newly-formed opposition Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD), the latter’s party chairman said on Wednesday. Paul Tembo was deputy secretary general of the governing Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) and was campaign manager for Chiluba’s controversial third term re-election bid. ”He came to see […]
OUTGOING International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Juan Antonio Samaranch on Thursday called for more African members to be elected to the body and urged the continent to make another Olympic bid. Speaking at the end of the Associations of National Olympic Committees of Africa (Anoca) general assembly, Samaranch also urged his successor to support Africa […]
FORMER dictator of one of South Africa’s now-dismantled apartheid homeland states was in a serious condition on Thursday after being shot during an apparent robbery attempt, police said. Brigadier Oupa Gqozo, who ruled the small Ciskei homeland on the southeast coast before the entity was dismantled at the country’s first democratic elections in 1994, was […]
Bollywood’s biggest-budget movie ever, <i>Lagaan</i>, premiers this weekend, coinciding with the International Indian Film Academy Awards at Sun City. Leading lady <b>Rachel Shelley</b> chronicles months of tears and passion in the Indian desert.
The Mummy was one of the most enjoyable pieces of hokum of the mid-1999 season, and a huge hit. Now writer-director Stephen Sommers has followed it up with <b>The Mummy Returns</b>.
There’s nothing sentimental about globalisation and South Africa cannot afford to pass up an opportunity to steal ahead of competitors. With the Asian Tigers fumbling and Latin America headed for trouble, South Africa’s time has arrived. In the wake of the emerging market crisis in 1997/1998 South Africa emerged robust compared with its emerging-market peers. […]
whipping boy One of my favourite movies is Forrest Gump, the story of a fool who couldn’t lose. And anyone foolish enough to take the advice of this column last week will know the feeling. Having always been aware that boastfulness is evidence of a flawed character, especially in tipsters, I desisted after casually pointing […]