SOUTH Africa has sold arms and ammunition to Pakistan despite announcing a freeze last October after a military coup led to the country’s suspension from the Commonwealth, a government official said. ”These were signed contracts. Due to the nature of the arms being sold, it was decided to allow the contracts to be completed,” said […]

FORMER South African President Nelson Mandela has urged Australia’s white majority to take the initiative in promoting racial harmony, saying it would be hard for disadvantaged Aborigines to force change. Australia’s small indigenous population simply did not have the weight of numbers that blacks in South Africa had when they struggled against and eventually triumphed […]

ELLIS MNYANDU, Johannesburg | Sunday THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), a coalition partner in the ANC-led South African government, has asked the government to prioritise job creation in its spending plans even if it means slashing defence budgets. ”After all, virtually every survey shows that our people see joblessness as the single […]

POLICE have advised parents to be ”extra vigilant” and to keep their children at home at night after a series of gruesome paedophile murders on the crime-ridden Cape Flats. Five young girls, the youngest just five years old, have been found murdered on the Cape Flats in the past month. But police have ruled out […]

THE prisons service wants anti-apartheid cleric Allan Boesak, in jail for fraud, put under house arrest instead. Boesak is preparing an appeal against his conviction after he was jailed for three years in May. He is not eligible for parole until December 2001, but the prisons service argues that further incarceration would serve no useful […]

A GUIDED missile from a Russian warship sank the Russian submarine Kursk, killing all 118 people on board, a German newspaper has reported, citing a report from the FSB domestic intelligence service in Moscow. The report, which the Berliner Zeitung daily said that FSB chief Nikolai Patruschev had handed to President Vladimir Putin, said the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT and REUTERS, Cape Town | Saturday CAPE Town’s faceless bombers have struck for the eighth time this year, blowing up a car outside the popular Obz Cafe in the suburb of Observatory, a popular student hangout. No injuries were reported and damage was minimal. The bomb exploded barely 12 hours after anti-terrorist magistrate […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT and REUTERS, New York | Saturday ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe has vowed to press ahead with his much-criticised seizure of white-owned farms and launched a blistering attack on the world’s powerful nations, saying they should not be allowed to recolonize Africa by stealth. Mugabe’s fierce speech to a special United Nations Millennial Summit […]