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/ 11 November 2001
You don’t really want to know what goes on in restaurant kitchens, do you? You’d be a lot happier not knowing about the fights, the blood, the drugs, the amoebas, the “hypermacho posturing and drunken ranting”. You don’t want to know why you shouldn’t order an elaborate special, particularly if there’s fish in it, or […]
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/ 11 November 2001
Sport fishermen while away the cruel Montreal winter by renting ice shacks on frozen lakes and fishing through a hole in the floor. ICE LAKE by John Farrow (Century) begins when a trapdoor is lifted and a corpse bobs up. It’s not a fisherman who’s lost his footing, but a man who’s come to the […]
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/ 11 November 2001
A WHITE judge on Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court, Nicholas McNally, has given up his Zimbabwean citizenship and resumed his British one, a state newspaper said Thursday. “Justice McNally and his wife … recently surrendered their Zimbabwean passports to the registrar general’s office after securing British travel documents,” The Herald reported. McNally, who is due to retire […]
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/ 11 November 2001
A UNITED Nations helicopter crashed into the sea off the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown, late on Wednesday, killing at least one of the seven people on board, a UN representative said. Margaret Novicki, representative for Unamsil, the UN mission in Sierra Leone, said the helicopter “crashed in the sea shortly after taking off from the […]
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/ 11 November 2001
A CRACKDOWN on illegal fishing on the Ugandan side of Lakes Victoria and Albert will help boost exports and sustain the fishing industry, the minister for agriculture and fisheries said. Kisamba Mugerwa said up to 50 000 tons of fish were lost each year in illegal fishing, but that a crackdown by an anti-smuggling force […]
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/ 11 November 2001
THREE freelance journalists in Swaziland have been warned by the state police that they should stop writing negatively about the country and the King. The journalists are Lunga Masuku of African Eye News Service, Thulani Mthethwa who does some work for British Broadcasting Corporation and South African Press Association and Bheki Matsebula who writes for […]
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/ 11 November 2001
A Democratic Republic of Congo journalist arrested more than five months ago on defamation charges has been freed, non-governmental organisation Journalists in Danger (JED) said on Thursday. Freddy Loseke, editor of “Free Africa” publication, was freed on Tuesday after being arrested in April, JED said in a statement. He was charged following complaints by the […]
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/ 11 November 2001
ANGELA QUINTAL, Cape Town | Sunday AFTER more than 10 years in the New National Party and three years as Western Cape Premier, Gerald Morkel, on Saturday jumped ship, but denied he was pushed. Morkel chose to do so in the NNP’s coloured heartland of Mitchell’s Plain, in front of a small, but vocal group […]
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/ 11 November 2001
A LESOTHO High Court judge on Thursday found that the former chief executive officer of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, Masupha Sole, had a case to answer on all 18 counts of bribery and fraud involving millions of dollars. Sole, who pleaded not guilty to all charges, was indicted in 1999 as a sequel to […]
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/ 11 November 2001
CLAIRE KEETON, Johannesburg | Saturday THE gang-rape of a nine-month-old baby has finally jolted South Africans into acknowledging everyday sexual violence against children, and to demand why it is so widespread. One factor is a widespread myth that sex with a virgin will cure you of Aids: some 4,7-million South Africans, or one in nine, […]