Cosmo City is a place of hope for the new working class looking for an affordable home and a dream come true for people from informal settlements who now live in more than an enclosure of zinc sheets. It brings together sectors of the country’s population who would never have imagined living side by side.
The Independent Democrats (ID) on Sunday described a move by the education department to force school governing bodies to take responsibility for poor performance as ”deplorable”. ”The ID finds it deplorable that the education department wants to shift responsibility,” said the party’s education spokesperson.
Lichtenburg came to a standstill at the weekend amid fears of a bomb after a ”suspicious” bag was seen in front of a retail shop. Police spokesperson Pauline Montwedi said the bag had been left unattended for hours in front of an Edgars store on Saturday afternoon.
The Constitutional Court on Monday released an abridged record of the proceedings in the appeal by former National Intelligence Agency (NIA) director general Billy Masetlha. The record was released minus pages 114 to 175, or the whole of an affidavit made in camera by Masetlha.
Pupils were returning to schools in Khutsong on Monday after almost a month’s boycott in protest at incorporation from Gauteng into North West. ”In my school, learners are here,” said Khutsong Representative Council of Learners president Sibusiso Kula, who is a grade-12 pupil at Babiri High School.
Six gunmen wearing military fatigues seized a Nigerian staff member of the Italian oil company Agip on Monday in the Nigeria’s southern petroleum region, police said. The assailants grabbed the human resources manager for Agip, a subsidiary of Italian oil giant Eni SpA, as he drove to work, said Rivers state police spokesperson Irejua Barasua.
Global warming isn’t just a matter of melting icebergs and polar bears chasing after them. It’s also Lake Chad drying up, the glaciers of Mt Kilimanjaro disappearing, increasing extreme weather, conflict, and hungry people throughout Africa.
At least 30 people were killed when three vehicles burst into flames after colliding on a road in southern Nigeria, police and local press said on Monday. ”About 30 bodies were removed from the scene of the accident. The bodies were burnt beyond recognition,” a senior police office said by telephone.
Australia on Monday said it would spend Aus-million (-million) backing critics of Zimbabwe’s strongman President Robert Mugabe just a day after banning a cricket tour of the troubled African nation. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Canberra was determined to assist Zimbabweans battle abuses under Mugabe.
Former Zimbabwe opposition lawmaker Roy Bennett said on Sunday he has finally won asylum in neighbouring South Africa, becoming the first senior government figure to achieve the political feat. The ”happy” Bennett — who has been in the country for over a year — told the media that the Home Affairs department granted him the asylum papers on Friday.