A 27-year-old Nigerian man, held for months in a detention centre in Switzerland after being refused asylum, died on Tuesday after a struggle with police ordered to forcibly repatriate him. Police said the man, who was not identified, resisted attempts by the two officers to handcuff him prior to escorting him to Zurich airport. After […]
THE Baptist Church in Nigeria is refusing to marry couples unless they present certificates proving they are free of the HIV virus that causes Aids, Nigeria’s Guardian newspaper reported Tuesday. “Baptist ministers should demand a certificate of a HIV/Aids test from would-be couples before they are joined in holy matrimony,” the paper quoted a statement […]
RICHARD Branson on Wednesday launched the Virgin Group of Companies’ latest product in South Africa – bottles of still mineral water. Virgin Water, sourced locally in the Drakensberg mountains, will be sold at the group’s newly acquired South African chain of Virgin Active health clubs, Virgin boss Branson said at a media conference. “We’re experimenting […]
JAN HENNOP, Pretoria | Thursday PALESTINIAN leader Yasser Arafat declared on Wednesday that “we are trying our best” to find peace in the Middle East as he arrived in South Africa for a meeting with ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Arafat met later with President Thabo Mbeki, the current chairman of the pro-Palestinian movement, […]
THE African National Congress has backtracked and admitted that Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete damaged South Africa’s image by naming three prominent party members as allegedly plotting to overthrow President Thabo Mbeki. Tshwete is to be carpeted before Parliament?s safety and security committee today, where he is expected to justify why he ordered a […]
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POVERTY elimination strategies should treat women not only as the worst victims of poverty, but also as potential agents of change, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Monday. In a speech prepared for delivery at the opening of an expert group meeting on water-related environmental education in African cities, Asmal said there was little recognition […]
TWO Congolese politicians were found shot to death on Monday near the southern city of Lubumbashi in what authorities suspect was a politically motivated killing. The bodies of Kienge Lukonde and Kioni Kyanukenbe were discovered early Monday morning in a car by the side of the road, said Kazadi Dikanga, an official in Katanga Province. […]
TWO Englishmen began a 64_000 km journey on foot across four continents, expected to take seven years, from Cape Point in South Africa on Tuesday, local television reported. The adventurers, James Tremayne and David Thompson, intend to follow the trail by the humans who inhabited southern Africa 120_000 years ago and migrated across the world. […]
NASDAQ-listed Quokka Sports, the Australian company that provided the first Internet sports coverage that beat television, has gone bankrupt after burning through A$100m in seed money. News reports quoted founder Alan Ramadan as blaming the fall of the five-year-old San Francisco-based company on a “dramatic downturn in advertising” and the lack of high-speed cable networks […]