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/ 10 January 2001
THE Ranch, a Sandton brothel for the rich and famous, has been closed after a police raid two hours before it was set to open its doors for the first time in the new year, The Star newspaper reported. Police ejected staff and placed hired security guards at the entrance to prevent anyone from gaining […]
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/ 10 January 2001
SWAZILANDS health ministry has warned of a bilharzia outbreak this summer, especially in hot areas like the Lubombo region, which borders northern KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Health inspectors said children were most susceptible to the water-borne disease because they enjoyed playing in streams and rivers. If not treated early, the illness can cause complications in […]
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/ 10 January 2001
A BUS carrying American tourists on their way back from the Kruger National Park burst into flames on the road outside Lydenburg in Mpumalanga province. Police said the tourists evacuated the bus minutes after an electrical short in the engine started the fire. The flames spread rapidly to the main body of the bus and […]
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/ 10 January 2001
TWO journalists have been arrested in Burkina Faso for investigating the death of a 12-year-old pupil shot dead in December during a demonstration quashed by paramilitary police. Germain Nama and Newton Ahmed Barry were taken in for questioning on Monday. After the death of Flavien Nebie during the protest in Bousse, some 50km outside of […]
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/ 10 January 2001
ANGRY at what it sees as an unfair allocation of seats in some local councils, the African National Congress says it wants the new Municipal Structures Act amended because it “dilutes majority rule” and ?entrenches arbitrariness?. KwaZulu-Natal ANC representative S’bu Ndebele told reporters in Durban the party was particularly concerned over the formula used to […]
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/ 10 January 2001
SOME 28_000 displaced people who have fled Angola’s ongoing civil war are living in inhuman conditions in camps at Matala, in southern Huila province, according to press reports. “It’s a desolate landscape,” said the state-run Angolan Journal in an article written by two journalists who visited the camps, around 1_000km south of Luanda. “Malnourished children, […]
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/ 10 January 2001
THE world will pay an enormous price if it ignores the plight of refugees and fails to find them homes, the new UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Ruud Lubbers, has warned. He said “it would be nonsense to praise UNHCR for its care for refugees” unless the international community made “political efforts and, where […]
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/ 10 January 2001
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Pretoria | Wednesday SOUTH Africa’s Bureau of Standards (SABS) has announced the purchase of equipment worth millions of rands to monitor the effects of radiation in mobile cellular telephones. SABS President Eugene Julies said the sophisticated monitoring equipment would help determine the exact radiation humans were subjected to while using cellular telephones. “Since […]
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/ 10 January 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday A TOP official at South Africas Road Accident Fund, which has a deficit of R9.2bn, has launched a stinging attack on the politicians, unscrupulous lawyers and excessive administration expenditure he says are responsible for driving the fund to the brink of bankruptcy. The funds Duif de Waal, a re-appointed […]