A TRUCK convoy arrived in Kolomba, a southeast Guinean town Wednesday to begin moving some 50_000 refugees from neighbouring Sierra Leone to a safer place in central Guinea, more remote from a combat zone. The refugees were assembled in a salient of Guinea territory known as the Parrot’s Beak, adjacent to Sierra Leone, where they […]
THE hearing on child abuse conducted by the SA Human Rights Commission continued on Thursday in Dube, Soweto. The hearing is to investigate the way child abuse cases are handled by courts, to make findings and recommendations and to ensure that criminal investigations into child abuse in Gauteng are done properly. The commission on Wednesday […]
FIVE people – an Australian, three New Zealand tourists and a pilot – were killed in a plane crash over the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana this week, a Botswana aviation official said on Wednesday. The plane was about to land at an airport on Tuesday afternoon, after a game flight over the Moremi Game […]
AT least five people were killed and 10 others wounded after heavily armed militiamen battled each other in southern Mogadishu on Wednesday morning, witnesses and medical sources said. The fighting was sparked by a land dispute in southern Mogadishu’s populous Black Sea neighbourhood, the witnesses said. Two of those killed and three wounded were militiamen, […]
RESCUERS recovered seven bodies on Friday from the port of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a day after a ship sank there, bringing the death toll from the accident to 12. Goma, which is in the hands of rebels, has no rescue or fire service, but workers resumed their search […]
The bestselling success of Cormac McCarthy’s 1992 novel <b>All the Pretty Horses</b> was somewhat surprising – his work is bleak and bloody and his writing has the kind of knotty grandiosity not often smiled upon in the videogame-Internet age.
James Hall Nothing much disturbs the placid facade of Swaziland, but the murderous escapades of David Mahlanga (45) have shaken assumptions about the kingdom. Mahlanga, who may be responsible for at least 34 deaths, has triggered anxiety because of what his crimes represent a realisation that Swazis can no longer presume they are safe. “Women […]
Bruce Whitfield Metcash shareholders have taken an unusual step of rejecting the company’s efforts to lower the price on staff share options. Sixty-eight per cent of shareholders voted in favour of a special resolution that would have effectively meant the cost of the options would have been lowered from 550c to 130c. But the resolution […]
Neal Collins soccer ‘Everything is corrupt.” “It’s like a web of prostitution.” “We have become too commercially orientated.” No, those aren’t the world views of the May 1 anarchists before tearing up the town this week. Just a very frank assessment of Brazilian football, issued by former captain Socrates. A shock 1-1 draw with Peru […]
Peter Robinson cricket Normal service having been resumed by Shaun Pollock’s South Africans in the Caribbean, this might be as good a point as any to consider the vexed question of rotation. By way of explanation, rotation is the selection policy employed by Manchester United football club and the Australian one-day cricket team. As a […]