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A US federal court in Los Angeles on Monday postponed for the second time the sentencing of an Algerian convicted of terrorism in a plot to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport during 2000 millennium celebrations. “The sentencing has been continued until February 14th at (9:00 am) because the defence requested more time,” court representative […]

ZIMBABWE’S top politicians have endorsed a land deal brokered in Nigeria which aims to end the country’s land crisis, the state-owned Herald reported on Tuesday. The politburo of the ruling Zanu-PF party met on Monday, endorsed the agreement signed in Abuja, Nigeria, earlier this month and called for its speedy implementation, the newspaper said. Under […]

Harare | Tuesday THOUSANDS of people living in southern Zimbabwe are facing starvation as critical food shortages loom, aid agencies and officials said this week. The food crisis in southern Zimbabwe has been blamed on a variety of factors, including a devastating cyclone in early 2000, a January drought which destroyed this year’s maize crops, […]

MICHEL SAILHAN, Cairo | Tuesday THE United States, France and other countries are moving ahead with preparations for the world’s biggest war games with some 70 000 troops in Egypt in October, Western diplomats said on Monday. The diplomats said they were virtually certain the war games, dubbed Operation Bright Star, would go head despite […]

Johannesburg | Monday LIBERATION fighters have no need to attack civilians, President Thabo Mbeki declared on Sunday, recalling the “moral” war against South Africa’s apartheid regime. “Even as our enemy and its friends denounced our movement as terrorist, we took strict measures to avoid the use of terror against the people,” Mbeki writes in a […]

South African former president Nelson Mandela left South Africa on Monday to take a well-deserved two-week holiday at a secret location with his wife.

NIGER President Mamadou Tandja on Monday reshuffled his government for the first time since the west African country’s fifth republic was formed on January 5, 2000. Prime Minister Hama Amadou was still in charge of a new cabinet of 23 ministers. Ten ministers retained their posts while 13 new faces were brought into the line-up. […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN & SAKHILE MOKOENA, Nelspruit | Tuesday MPUMALANGA’S sleepy capital Nelspruit intends creating a red light district as part of an initiative to regulate the region’s growing sex trade. Council representative Delia Oosthuizen confirmed that all six escort agencies in the city had been ordered to immediately move their operations into the central business […]

THE Ugandan government has allowed South African and Spanish firms to bid for two lucrative concessions in the Ugandan power sector, whose privatisation is in final stages, senior finance ministry official Emmanuel Nyirikindi said on Sunday. Nyirikindi said that the two firms — Eskom Enterprises of South Africa and Union Fenosa Internacional of Spain — […]

GRIFFIN SHEA, Hwedza, Zimbabwe | Monday DESPITE three separate agreements aimed at resolving Zimbabwe’s land crisis, three more people have died during the last week as violence in the countryside rages unchecked. The latest deaths came on Saturday, when two people died during a clash on a white-owned farm in eastern Zimbabwe. A 70-year-old farmer […]

POLICE have detained more than 300 people in Lagos over Christian-Muslim violence that left more than 500 dead in the city of Jos last week. It was not clear if all would be charged with some offences or if some had already been released after questioning. Nigeria was shaken by violence that broke out in […]

RWANDAN-backed rebels said on Sunday around 2 650 child soldiers are waiting to be demobilised in the territory it controls in the east of the DRC. Crispen Kabasele, head of exterior relations for the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), said the majority of the children had been recruited by Alliance of Democratic Forces for the […]

LUNGA MASUKU, Nhlangano, Swaziland | Monday KING Mswati III of Swaziland put a dampener on festivities at his 33rd birthday celebrations recently when he announced a five year sex ban for young maidens in the tiny mountain kingdom. In a bid to reduce the soaring HIV/Aids figures the king saw fit to announce the revival […]

THE Bank of England sold 20 tons of gold, or 643_200 ounces, at $280,00 a troy ounce on Wednesday. The scheduled sale, which came in a disorientated market after yesterday’s US terror attack, was 4,3 times oversubscribed, with a scaling factor of 61,3818% applied to the successful bids at $280,00, the Bank of England said. […]

Johannesburg | Sunday AIDS has become the biggest single killer of South Africans, the South African Medical Research Council reports in a study made public on Sunday. It calculates that 40% of the deaths last year of those aged between 15 and 49 were due to the pandemic. The council predicts that about six million […]

FINANCIAL ratings firm Standard & Poor’s said on Thursday it did not believe Tuesday’s attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon would have a long-term adverse impact on the economy. “Our economic, financial and debt analysts continue to assess the situation and we are convinced that this will not have a negative long-standing […]

Harare | Sunday HOMES belonging to farm workers and the offices on a white-owned farm in eastern Zimbabwe were burned down on Saturday, a farmers’ spokeswoman said, despite government’s promise to curb violence in the countryside. “It is confirmed the office complex and farm workers’ houses were burned down. We can confirm serious injuries to […]

Harare | Sunday THE head of a UN team probing the looting of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo has talked to Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, who has sent up to 12_000 troops to the war-ravaged country. Egypt’s ambassador to the United Nations Mahmoud Kassem met with Mugabe on Friday for what state […]

Justin Arenstein and Ongeri John The two South African Aids quacks who were booted out of Tanzania last week left behind a string of debts, including a R68 000 telephone bill. Jacques Zigi Visser and Themba Khumalo were deported last Saturday in the wake of mounting controversy about their role in trials of the discredited […]

Marianne Merten Cape gang boss Rashied Staggie, who three years ago claimed he had found the Lord and renounced gangsterism, is facing charges of raping and kidnapping a 17-year old girl. He was released on bail of R10000 by the Mitchells Plain Regional Court on Monday after a week in custody. His co-accused’s bid for […]

The World Trade Centre not only dominated the skyscape of New York, but towered over the American imagination. Darryl Pinckney, who watched it being built, mourns the loss of a landmark No one I know loved the World Trade Centre, or recalled their first visits to it, in the way that they remember being taken […]

KathrynSmith 65 Galway Road, Parkview, Johannesburg. Opening on September 28 at 6pm for a very short run, Carol Lee presents Incidental Landscapes, an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Carl Becker. Thereafter, it’s open all day on September 29 and 30 with viewing by appointment from October 1 to 3. Tel: 486 0526. African […]

Barry Streek Far from shunning small and medium enterprises in the fishing industry as most other finance houses have done until now, Business Partners established after the demise of the Small Business Development Corporation (SBDC) has continued to support them. Business Partners, which is 80% owned by the private sector and 20% by the government, […]

WAYNE COLE, Singapore | Wednesday POLICY makers and central banks around the world are pulling out the stops to prevent the US terror attacks from so unhinging business and consumer confidence that a recession becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert McTeer spoke for many on Wednesday when he said it […]

A set of readers, written by teachers, will reach about 160 000 learners throughout South Africa Jubie Matlou Road safety awareness is one subject very close to Alice Segola’s heart. This is not surprising because this is a subject that affects many of her pupils at St Ann’s primary school in Atte-ridgeville, outside Pretoria. When […]

Neal Collins So it’s all off. The Champions League fixtures have been cancelled. No more talk of Manchester United’s “life-or-death” clash with Olymp-iakos, or the “tragedy” of Arsenal’s defeat at Real Mallorca on Tuesday. No, the sensible course has been taken. Call it all off; give us time to reflect, let life, for those of […]

Now the applications have been completed, officials are faced with the tough task of allocating fishing rights Barry Streek The first phase of one of South Africa’s biggest empowerment deals the allocation of new fishing quotas was completed this week. Between 6 000 and 9 000 applications were expected for the 1 000 to 1 […]

Alex Sudheim African Art Centre, first floor, Tourist Junction, 160 Pine Street. One of Durban’s top contemporary art galleries hosts a showcase of KwaZulu-Natal artistic talent titled Asibuke Abantu: Looking at People, an exhibition featuring the work of 31 invited artists. Some of the artists are well-known painters Sfiso ka-Mkame, George Msimang, Carl Roberts and […]

REVIEW Gavin Foster Toyota Camry, R175 651 to R270 320 The new Australian-built Toyota Camry is here, and it offers pretty well what its predecessor did spacious, safe, reliable motoring in a conservative package. Toyota says that the car is aimed at existing and previous Camry owners, and will be marketed as a family car […]

On the 20th birthday of the PC, the launch of Windows XP could be the end of DOS as we know it, says Jack Schofield At the end of last month the grey skies over Seattle turned blue after a week of rain, and a helicopter took off from the Microsoft campus with briefcases holding […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Two days after the World Conference against Racism ended in Durban, thousands of Eastern Cape residents went on the rampage, looting shops belonging to foreign, Muslim businessmen. Kwanobuhle police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Nkosinathi Isaac, who described the incident as the “worst xenophobic incident ever in the Eastern Cape”, said Somali and […]

The US mobilises support from its Western allies for a crusade against Islamist terrorism Julian Borger in Washington, Richard Norton-Taylor and Ewen MacAskill in London and Ian Black in Brussels Nato is drawing up an emergency plan for a massive attack on Afghanistan if proof emerges that Osama bin Laden, the wanted Saudi-born terrorist sheltered […]