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Jaspreet Kindra A security company is advertising the fact that it protects the South African president’s house. In a pamphlet that was distributed on Johannesburg streets this week, Chubb Armed Response/BBR Security states: “We protect the residence of our president and most corporate businesses in SA.” The pamphlet lists the fact that it provides security […]

REVIEW Gavin Foster Daihatsu YRV, R127 995 Funny little car, the Daihatsu YRV. It’s dinky. It’s fun. It’s quite lively. It’s very well equipped in some areas, with ABS and EBD, dual airbags, electric windows and an aircon as standard, but it falls down, rather unnecessarily, in others. Soundproofing could be better, the doors feel […]

analysis Larry Elliott It will be weeks, months, even years before the full economic effects of the disaster that befell New York and Washington can be assessed. But one thing is already certain: the impact will be colossal, not just on the United States but on the rest of the world. This was a shock […]

WILLIAM O BEEMAN, Providence, Rhode Island | Thursday THE United States risks a severe miscalculation in dealing with the destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon on Tuesday. The root cause is not terrorist activity, as has been widely stated. It is the relationship between the United States and the […]

PETER CUNLIFFE-JONES, Lagos | Thursday ARMED mobs went on the rampage in two Nigerian cities on Wednesday in clashes between Christians and Muslims and a newspaper reported at least 500 people had died in five days of violence. Clashes which erupted on Friday in the central city of Jos between rampaging gangs of Christian and […]

MARJORIE OLSTER, New York | Thursday HOPES were fading on Thursday that more survivors would be found from an attack two days earlier that demolished the World Trade Center towers, now feared to be a mass tomb where thousands may be buried. The preliminary death toll had reached 82 by early Thursday but was expected […]

Paris | Wednesday THE hijacked planes that destroyed New York’s World Trade Center crashed into the twin towers at their most vulnerable spot, which suggests the suicide attackers may have known where to strike, an expert said Wednesday. The jetliners smacked into the towers about three-quarters up their 110-storey height, an impact probably equal to […]

Washington | Thursday US leaders, putting aside political differences in the wake of a deadly terror attack, vowed on Wednesday to wage war without mercy on those responsible as hope of finding more survivors faded. President George W. Bush vowed to avenge the murders of thousands by waging a “monumental struggle of good versus evil,” […]

ZIMBABWE medical authorities have begun incinerating nine million condoms deemed defective after they failed to pass pressure tests, state television reported late on Wednesday. The Medicine Control Authority expects it to take two weeks to burn all the condoms, the report said. The condoms were declared faulty months ago after some were found to leak […]

ANGOLAN rebels killed 25 people and injured 27 others in two attacks in the southern Huambo province this week, said the Roman Catholic radio station Ecclesia. The radio said rebels from the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) on Tuesday attacked the village of Longonjo in Huambo province, killing 24 villagers and […]

Johannesburg | Wednesday AFTERSHOCKS from the savage attacks on America are being felt around the world, with global aviation being plunged into disarray on Wednesday. US aviation authorities closed all airports after the deadliest act of terrorism ever on American soil was carried out by kamikaze hijackers who sent three airliners crashing into the World […]

SWISS reinsurance group Swiss Re said on Wednesday that the terrorist attacks in the United States on Tuesday would cost the company about the same amount as the damage from storms that ravaged Europe in December 1999. The storms, which were named Lothar and Martin, cost the company 1,9-billion Swiss francs (1,26-billion euros, $1,14-billion). Swiss […]

David Le Page, Grahamstown | Tuesday THE twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York have collapsed — most likely with thousands of people still trapped within them. The collapse followed the flying of two hijacked passenger aircraft through highly restricted airspace into the towers. THE attacks on the New York World Trade […]

SUDAN on Monday ordered the temporary suspension of the civil war-torn nation’s sole English-language paper, the Khartoum Monitor. The NPC ordered the daily banned for three days starting on Tuesday for articles said to have damaged relations between the southern part of the African nation, where rebels are fighting the north for self-determination. “The punishment […]

Johannesburg | Wednesday THE All Share Index on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) recovered gradually towards noon on Wednesday after dropping 6% following news of the attacks on the United States on Tuesday, an analyst said. The JSE’s overall market indicator was at 8_103 points around 12pm (10H00 GMT) after opening at 7 952 points, […]

Tripoli | Wednesday LIBYAN leader Moammar Gadaffi on Tuesday condemned the “terrible” attacks on the United States and said his country was ready to send aid to the American people, the official Jana news agency reported. “Different policies and the conflicts with America shouldn’t be a psychological obstacle to sending humanitarian aid to the American […]

DIVERSIFIED miner Anglo American Plc said on Friday market conditions were tough and current trading was not showing any signs of improvement. “Trading conditions at the present time are not showing any signs of improvement,” Anglo Finance Director Tony Lea told a conference call, but added that he did not expect base metal and pulp […]

Johannesburg | Wednesday THE gold price surged on South African markets while the country’s currency plunged in a panic selling of rands to buy bullion following the attacks on the United States, market analysts said Tuesday. Gold opened trade on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange at 271,15 dollars an ounce but rocketed to a high of […]

LAMIA RADI, Cairo | Wednesday EGYPTIAN students, taxi drivers and shopkeepers crowded round television sets stacked up in electrical store windows in downtown Cairo on Tuesday evening, celebrating a string of elaborate attacks on New York and Washington. “Bullseye,” commented two taxi drivers as they watched footage of the twin towers of the World Trade […]

MPUMALANGA may be home to the first black leopard spotted in sub-Saharan Africa in 40 years. Mpumalanga Parks Board representative Gary Sutter said on Monday that two confirmed sitings of a rare black leopard had been reported in mountains in Lydenburg in January and again in May. “It’s an ordinary leopard, but it has a […]

AN international health body has turned to a new medium, public transport buses, to try to reach out to millions of Kenyans in the fight against the deadly HIV/Aids. The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) on Monday distributed thousands of posters and stickers to Kenya’s public commuter buses in this Indian Ocean port city for […]

RAJA ASGHAR, Islamabad | Wednesday AID workers and diplomats began pulling out of Afghanistan on Wednesday after suspicions centred on Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, sheltered by the Taliban government, for horrific attacks in the United States. The United Nations said it was temporarily relocating its 80 expatriate staff in Afghanistan to neighbouring Pakistan. Australian, […]

UP to 800 people are believed to have been killed at the Pentagon building when a hijacked plane slammed into it earlier Tuesday, US media reported. The reports quoted an unnamed Arlington County official as giving the unofficial toll, as rescue crews continued to dig through debris following the attack that destroyed a section of […]

FORTY people travelling in a truck were killed and 30 others injured when the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle due to faulty brakes, the Catholic radio station Ecclesia reported late on Monday. The accident took place on Sunday near Kulu in Uije province, about 300 kilometers north of the capital Luanda. The vehicle, […]

DUMISANE LUBISI, Marble Hall | Tuesday FIVE farm attackers poured boiling water into a woman’s face while her paraplegic husband watched helplessly and stole R30 000 cash early Monday morning. Gawie and Marie-Claire Crevitz were asleep when unknown men broke the lock on a sliding door to enter the house on plot H206B in Marble […]

GRIFFIN SHEA, Harare | Tuesday PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and five other southern African leaders worked late into the night on Monday to resolve Zimbabwe’s long-running political and economic crisis, meeting with a cross-section of Zimbabwean society. The talks are the broadest ever aimed at resolving the crisis, with the presidents of Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, […]

SOUTH Africa’s Nedcor, one of the country’s four main commercial banks, said on Monday it was issuing two billion rands worth of notes, in the country’s largest corporate issue to date. The bank said the issue was being used to raise its capital adequacy ratio and give it the necessary cash to take advantage of […]

Geneva | Tuesday SIX-year old statistics used by President Thabo Mbeki to claim that HIV/Aids is not the leading cause of death in South Africa underestimate the real impact of the disease, the UN agency dealing with the disease said on Tuesday. UNAids also said deaths from the immune deficiency disease in South Africa had […]

Harare CHRISPIN INAMBAO, Staff Reporter | Tuesday MORE tales of horror have been told by passengers aboard an ill fated flight over Namibia last Thursday – on which the door of a 12-seater aircraft opened in mid-flight. The event took place on Thursday night on an Namibian Air operated Ondangwa-Eros flight when the door of […]

GUINEA-Bissau President Kumba Yala has sacked three supreme court judges in an ongoing battle between the country’s executive and judiciary. The dismissals were made by a secret presidential decree on Monday, an official source said. Among the three sacked judges was deputy president of the supreme court Venancio Martins. Last Friday Martins declared that the […]

Ouagadougou | Sunday ORGANISATION of African Unity (OAU) Secretary-General Amara Essy on Saturday said that the United Nations conference on racism under way in Durban, South Africa should declare slavery “a crime against humanity.” “What is clear is that the Durban conference should recognise slavery and the trade in blacks as a crime against humanity,” […]