ZIMBABWE’s opposition leader said yesterday he will return home this weekend despite fears of a possible assassination attempt.

Zimbabwe’s opposition leader will return home Saturday, despite fears of possible assassination attempts, he said today.

South Africa’s Football World Cup bidding team arrived home early yesterday morning to a heroes’ welcome, cheered on by thousands of fans lining the township streets around Johannesburg.

About 10,000 protesters marched from a squalid township to the glittering venue of the World Summit to press demands for everything from land redistribution to a Palestinian state.

As the UN environmental summit got under way today, Zimbabwean and Ethiopian groups held the first in a series of planned protests.