Plans to turn a world heritage site into a Big Five game park could be shelved if a herd of elephants are unable to adjust to their new home
MARK Shuttleworth’s successful flight to the International Space Station (ISS) could pave the way for a whole generation of wealthy amateur cosmonauts, a trend more than welcome for Russia’s cash-strapped space agency.
DOUBTS remain over Myanmar military government’s intentions. Asked how bad things are these days in Myanmar (Burma), the Western diplomat gave a brief reply: "I’ve run out of ways to describe it."
PRESIDENT Jacques Chirac’s appointment this week of Jean-Pierre Raffarin as France’s interim prime minister is a calculated gamble aimed at showing disenchanted voters that the newly re-elected president has understood their woes.
EIGHT provincial education departments massively underspent in the past financial year, with at least R248-million going a-begging in Gauteng, the same amount in the Eastern Cape, and R109-million in the Free State.
CHARLATANS gull squatter camp residents with bizarre machines, crystals and health foods. People queue to see the man they call "the electronic doctor". No one can say exactly what his machine does.
IN WHAT may foreshadow a climb-down, the council of the University of Natal is to refer the appointment of Malegapuru Makgoba as the new vice-chancellor to the university senate.
FALLOUT from Pim Fortuyn’s assassination will be felt not just in Holland but across the world. Where there was harmony, now there is discord. Where there was faith, now there is doubt. In Holland, that byword for flat, tedious stability, politics has grown hot and turbulent.
SOUTH African Communist Party national chairperson Charles Nqakula’s appointment as the new Minister of Safety and Security has not gone down well in certain African National Congress circles.
A REPUBLICAN-led committee of the House approved $200-million in aid for Israel on Thursday despite earlier objections by President George Bush’s administration. Unable to head off the move, Secretary of State Colin Powell persuaded the House Appropriations Committee’s Republican leaders to add $50-million in humanitarian help for Palestinians. Both provisions were approved by voice vote. […]