UGANDAN President Yoweri Museveni defied UN sanctions and flew to Libya on Sunday, meeting President Moamer Gadhafi to discuss the DR-Congo conflict. The day before, Museveni’s bitter enemy, DR-Congo President Laurent Kabila, flew home after two days of talks with Gadhafi, starting on Christmas Day. Libya in September offered its services to help settle the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 5.30pm. A SOUTH AFRICAN man is suing two cellphone companies, M-Tel and Vodac, for R502,5-million after doctors removed a brain tumour close to his right ear. Terry Hutchings of Pretoria, who has used cellphones ever since they were first introduced, is suing for R2,5 million on his own behalf and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENTS, Huambo | Saturday 5.30pm. THERE was no Christmas respite for residents of the strategic central Angolan town of Kuito on Friday, as shelling by Unita rebels claimed 35 dead and 63 injured. One family lost eight members in the shelling as residents of the ruined town spent Christmas in shelters. Rescue services recovered […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 1.00pm. THREE fifteen-year olds were arrested on Wednesday in connection with causing an estimated R1-million worth of damage at a Western Cape farm. The youths allegedly went on a 20-hour vandalising spree at a farmhouse near Napier on Tuesday, damaging the furniture, computers, television sets and other equipment, newspapers on […]

KENYA moved a step closer to a new constitution on Christmas Eve, after President Daniel arap Moi signed an act to establish a commission, jointly nominated by political parties, civil society, religious and special interest groups, to draw up a new constitution. The commission, chaired by a judge, may begin sitting as early as February, […]

POLICE are searching for a Ventersdorp farmer who went missing after his bakkie was washed away in floodwaters after a massive storm hit the North-West province on Wednesday afternoon. Police spokesperson Captain Louis Jacobs said 130mm fell on the area in half an hour, flooding many roads. He said an unnamed 61-year-old farmer is missing […]

knowledgeable you really are How clued up are you on the highs and lows, ins and outs of 1998? Test your skills with this brain-teaser 1 President Nelson Mandela made a special concession to pay the lawyers of an infamous politician more than double the going rate to prepare for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission […]

Patricia Whitelock Perhaps it’s because we have 10 fingers and work on a decimal system that numbers and intervals of time like 10 and decade, 100 and century or 1 000 and millennium seem to have such significance. This probably explains the interest in the beginning of the new millennium, but not the controversy associated […]

RUGBY Andy Capostagno It is always harder to stomach defeat when it is unexpected. It is like living on a diet of milk and honey and then being sent to bed with a spoonful of castor oil. But Christmas is a time for giving, so how appropriate that the Springboks should end their tour of […]

1 PW Botha 2 Philippe Troussier 3 Gauteng’s provincial Premier Mathole Motshekga 4 Renamo 5 The Northern Cape’s Manne Dipico 6 Hlengiwe Mkhize 7 Mitchells Plain on the Cape Flats 8 Moeneeb “Bowtie” Abrahams and Leonard “Chippie” Archilles of the Hard Livings gang, Jackie Lonte of the Americans, Ismael April of the Mongrels, to name […]