MARTIN WOLK, Seattle | Wednesday 3.50pm US President Bill Clinton arrived in Seattle to scenes of devastation early on Wednesday after huge protests in which anti-trade demonstrators battled with police and threw global trade talks into chaos. The streets of this port city were littered with glass and other debris after activists smashed storefront windows, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.00pm. NIGERIAN striker Nwankwo Kanu has won the African Footballer of the Year award, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced on Wednesday. It is the second time the 23-year-old Arsenal forward has won the award, following his triumph in 1996 when he captained Nigeria’s under-23 team to the Olympic […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.00pm. FAST bowler Chris Silverwood seized two wickets in three deliveries when he made his first appearance for England on their tour of South Africa on Wednesday. Silverwood, drafted in recently when paceman Dean Headley returned home early with a stress fracture in his back, helped England to beat a […]

Transport Minister Dullah Omar is hosting a big Aids Awareness Concert at the Johannesburg Park Station on World Aids Day on Wednesday. The event is being organised by the South African Rail Commuter Corporation in conjunction with Intersite. Omar will sign the “Long Life Love Train”, which will be parked at one of the station’s […]

THE National Union Metal Workers declared a dispute against Highveld Steel on Tuesday after 2000 union members were disciplined for protesting against the death of a colleague. Numsa said workers protested about safety standards after a colleague was killed in an explosion at Highveld Steel’s Middelburg plant in Mpumalanga two weeks ago. It said management […]

A NEW draft constitution for Zimbabwe was adopted by a government-appointed commission amid strong objections on Monday, leaving the contentious issue of President Robert Mugabe’s future unresolved. Cries of “No” rang out around the Harare conference centre as the chairman of the 400-member commission, judge Godfrey Chidyausiku, declared the draft adopted by acclamation. The new […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki and Foreign Minister Nkosazana Zuma will leave for Tanzania on Tuesday to attend a two-day meeting aimed at reviving the peace process in Burundi, presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana said. The meeting in Arusha is aimed at reviving the peace process in Burundi following the death of Julius Nyerere, the former Tanzanian president […]

THE mayor of Northam in the Northern Province has died of severe burn wounds after an angry woman torched his vehicle at the weekend, Julius Ramoabi sustained third degree burns on Saturday night after an unnamed woman doused his bakkie with petrol and lit it during an argument. Bushveld police spokesman Captain Blackie Swart said […]