According to a report in the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> two weeks ago, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang recently attacked Mark Heywood in public as a white man who manipulates Africans to take part in Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) actions.
A delegation of African leaders met on Monday with Zimbabwe’s president and its opposition leader in an urgent round of shuttle diplomacy aimed at ending the political crisis that has plunged the southern African nation into chaos and driven it to the brink of economic collapse.
Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, one of Iraq’s top biological weapons scientists, was taken into custody yesterday, a US defence department official said.
Reporters from some foreign media organisations were refused entry into the closed-door talks between President Thabo Mbeki, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, Malawi President Bakili Muluzi and President Robert Mugabe.
Justice department representative Paul Setsetse has openly criticised traditionally ”white” parties for not being more vocal in their condemnation of ”Wit Wolwe” leader Barend Strydom’s statements on the sentencing of De Wet Kritzinger.
From Friday May 9, South African consumers will have to pay for the plastic bags they previously received free of charge from retailers, as government legislature aiming to encourage re-use of bags and recycling by consumers comes into place.
It could have been a lot worse for the two Americans and one Russian whose landing ended up nearly 500 kilometres off course and their recovery hours late.
Kenyan Vice President Michael Wamalwa on Monday urged the international community and UN agencies to address the plight of slum dwellers around the world, particularly in Africa.
The Legal Aid Board is processing applications for assistance from 23 members of the right-wing Boeremag organisation due to go on trial for alleged treason and terrorism later this month.
Gold Fields, the second largest gold producer in South Africa, will vigorously defend a lawsuit brought against to it by the company’s former employees, company officials said on Monday.