LUSAKA? Zambian police are investigating the death of two American tourists after their bodies were found by pedestrians on the outskirts of the capital yesterday.
A law enforcement spokesman says that the tourists died of gunshot wounds, and the apparent motive was robbery. The names of the two men are expected to be released today after the American embassy and relatI'ves have been notified.
No arrests have been made.
She was in a hurry to get to the
She opened the newspaper on the breakfast bar.
MOTORCYCLE MAN HOLDS THE KEY
CAPE TOWN? Full particulars of the South African weapons scandal, including names, relevant sums, and Swiss bank account numbers of government officials are allegedly contained in the computer hard drive in the possession of the fugitive Mr. Thobela Mpayipheli? the motorcyclist who still evades arrest by the authorities.
she thought,
According to advocate Pieter Steenkamp, previously of the Directorate for the Investigation of Serious Economic Crimes (Disec), there was frequent mention of the hard drive during the hearing of evidence relating to alleged irregularities in the weapons transaction of R43.8 billion last year.
?Come on,? murmured Allison.
?We conducted more than a hundred interviews and according to my notes, at least seven times there was mention made of complete electronic data in the possession of an intelligence agency,? said Advocate Steenkamp, who joined the Democratic Alliance in November last year.
?My allegations will probably be dismissed as petty politicking. We will just see more coverup. It is in the interest of the country and all its people that Mr. Mpayipheli is not apprehended. His journey has more significance than that of Dick King who rode on horseback from Durban to Grahamstown in 1842 to warn the English of the Boer siege.?
The fugitive motorcyclist was still on the loose at the time of going to press after leaving Cape Town on a stolen BMW R1150 GS (see article below) the day before yesterday. According to a SAPS source, Mpayipheli evaded government authorities at Three Sisters during one of the worst thunderstorms in recent memory (article on p. 5, weather forecast on S8).
An extensive operation at Petrusburg in the Free State also failed to apprehend the Umkhonto veteran last night. Unconfirmed reports claim that he crossed the border into Botswana late last night.
Allison Healy considered the report, staring at the magnets on her fridge.
Not impossible.
And if they were right, she had been scooped. Badly.
She looked down at the page again. There was another article, presented in box form beside the picture of a man standing next to a motorcycle.
This is the motorcycle that created a sensation last year by beating the legendary sports models like the Kawasaki ZX-6R, Suzuki SV 650 S, Triumph Sprint ST, and even the Yamaha YZF-Ri in a notorious alpine high-speed road test run by the leading German magazine,
But the BMW R1150 GS is anything but a racing motorcycle. In truth, it is the number one seller in a class or niche that it has created? the so-called multipurpose motorcycle that is equally at home on a two-track ground road or the freeway.
While the GS stands for ?Gela;nde/Strasse? (literally ?veld and street?), the multipurpose idea has expanded to include models from Triumph, Honda, and Suzuki, which all use drive-chain technology.
She scanned the rest, wanting to turn to the promised article on page two (MOTORCYCLIST IS PSYCHOPATH, SAYS BRIGADIER and MPAYIPHELI MUTILATED ME? REH ABILITAT ED CRIMINAL TELLS ALL and THE BATTLE OF KIMBERLEY! BIKER GANGS HAND-TO-HAND), but her cell phone rang in the bedroom and she ran, praying,
?Allison, I have a guy on the phone who says he rescued the boy last night. Can I give him your number??
Thobela?s plate was filled with sausage and eggs, fried tomato and bacon, beans in tomato sauce, and fried mushrooms. Hot black bitter coffee stood steaming on the starched white tablecloth, and he ate with a ravenous appetite.
He had overslept, waking only at twenty to seven, his wounds excruciating, wobbly on his feet, hands still trembling but controllable like an idling engine. He had bathed without haste, carefully inspected the bloody mass, covered it up again, taking only one pill this time, dressed and come down to eat.
In the upper corner of the dining room the television was fixed to a metal arm. CNN reported on share prices and George Bush?s latest faux pas with the Chinese and on the European Community that had turned down yet another corporate merger, and then the newsreader murmured something about South Africa and he looked up to see the photo of his motorbike on the screen and froze. But he could not hear, so he went forward till he was directly under the screen.
Guardian
