The mudslinging and violent undercurrent in Durban’s name-change row continued this week, with the IFP alleging that eThekwini city manager Mike Sutcliffe’s comments to the media had contributed to the harassment and intimidation of one of its councillors.
These are the migrants Europe never sees: Africans stranded in the wastes of southern Algeria, stuck midpoint on long and treacherous journeys in search of a better life. Deep in the Sahara desert, Tamanrasset teems with thousands of migrants who live amid rocks and rubble on the edge of the town and agonise over difficult choices: Should they admit defeat and suffer the shame of returning home empty-handed?
Mmamosadi Monareng, Thamsanqa Makhathini and Colin van Tooren are category winners in the annual Aggrey Klaaste Mathematics, Science and Technology Educator of the Year Awards. Their hard work and dedication has won them each 20 computers for the schools they serve.
The government of Côte d’Ivoire said on Monday that China has written off 40% of the debt it was owed by the West African state, during a visit by the Ivorian foreign minister to the Asian economic giant. The cancelled debt amonuted to €18-million and Beijing also extended a new €10-million gift to the country, the Ivorian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
It is a popular pastime for commentators to muse about Jacob Zuma, the previous criminal cases against him, his supposed presidential ambitions and his political activities. But in this sea of opinion it is difficult to find commentary based on fact. And an even-handed assessment of Zuma’s actions or decisions is virtually impossible to find, writes Ranjeni Munusamy.
The concerns of old wandering knights are no longer the concerns of industrialised Spain and Don Quixote’s windmills are gone. Were that ancient champion and his squire to amble, clanking and saddle-sore, onto the great baking plain of Iberia, they would find themselves dwarfed by a new enemy.
Thousands of American troops searched on Sunday for three US soldiers missing in Iraq after an ambush in which al-Qaeda said it seized ”crusader” forces. The self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, a group led by al-Qaeda, said in an internet posting it was holding soldiers who survived an attack south of Baghdad.
Thugs in a KwaZulu-Natal community are robbing people living with HIV/Aids of their antiretroviral (ARV) drugs — and then smoking them to get high. Patients collecting their ARVs at St Mary’s Hospital outside Pinetown have complained to community outreach coordinators that criminals are stealing their Stocrin.
Former world heavyweight champion Corrie Sanders’s return to the ring was not a memorable one as he laboured to a points decision over Brazilian Daniel Bispo at Emperors Palace near Johannesburg on Saturday night. The 41-year-old Sanders started well and battered Bispo from pillar to post with a stoppage looking inevitable.
Roger Federer has split from coach Tony Roche just two weeks before the world number one tennis player makes another attempt to win the only Grand Slam title eluding him, the French Open. The announcement to end the partnership after more than two years comes during Federer’s worst slump in years.