ANGELA QUINTAL, Cape Town | Thursday TONY Yengeni on Thursday announced his resignation as his party’s chief whip in Parliament, but said he would remain an ordinary MP pending his trial for corruption arising from investigations into the multi-billion arms deal. His successor will be decided upon at a meeting of the ANC’s national working […]

CLAIRE KEETON, Johannesburg | Thursday THE repercussions of the September 11 attacks on the United States are hitting South Africa hard, with the rand plunging 9,5% against the dollar since then. “Now we have a rolling crash … a steady looting of South Africa,” said Patrick Bond, an economist at the University of the Witwatersrand […]

SUDANESE authorities ordered the suspension of two daily newspapers on Wednesday for publishing articles deemed offensive to other journalists, Suna news agency reported. The country’s National Press Council slapped the one-day suspension on Alwan and Al-Usbu for articles written by their chief editors, saying they violated a code of honour endorsed by the Sudanese journalists’ […]

Pretoria | Thursday TWO of five people arrested in the United Kingdom last week in connection with a robbery in Switzerland are South Africans and the others Austrians with permanent South African residence permits and travelling on temporary South African passports. The five, four men and a woman, were arrested on September 28 at the […]

Phalaborwa | Thursday THE relocation of a herd of elephants from South Africa to Mozambique will symbolise the regional peace that now reigns, Mozambican Tourism Minister Fernando Sumbana said Wednesday. On Thursday morning, South African environmental officials will release the first herd of a group of 1 000 elephants to be relocated to the Mozambican […]

SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki warned on Tuesday that the world should not focus so much on its anti-terrorism campaign as to forget about other crucial issues such as poverty. Mbeki, who arrived in Tokyo on a three-day visit, said in a speech at the United Nations University in Tokyo that the world “has spoken […]

Johannesburg | Thursday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki said his government would try to limit damage from the withdrawal of Swissair’s 20% investment in South African Airways (SAA), state radio SABC reported on Wednesday. The Pretoria government, which holds the remaining 80% of SAA, would look closely at what happens to the troubled Swiss company […]

PHILIPPE BERNES-LASSERRE, Nelspruit | Thursday SOUTH Africa’s white farmers on Wednesday denounced the government’s failure to protect them against murderous attacks, but said they were ready to help redistribute land to the impoverished black majority. Their organisation, Agri SA, holding an annual congress in the eastern town of Nelspruit, accused the government of having “failed […]

EGYPT’S state security court on Tuesday ordered 14 Egyptians to be held in preventive detention for two weeks, on suspicion of proselytism and violating the principles of Islam, court sources said. The suspects were rounded up at a meeting in a Cairo suburb. Tapes used to spread the group’s ideology were seized and handed to […]

PRESIDENT George W Bush has picked career diplomat Cameron Hume to be US ambassador to South Africa, the White House announced on Tuesday. Hume, who served as ambassador to Algeria from 1997 to 2000, is presently a senior advisor at the US mission to the United Nations in New York, where he served as political […]