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/ 20 January 2008
Zimbabwean authorities have passed changes to the country’s tough security laws after veteran President Robert Mugabe gave his final seal of approval, a state daily reported on Saturday. The government also passed revised electoral laws ahead of Zimbabwe’s upcoming presidential and legislative polls expected in March.
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/ 20 January 2008
About 2Â 000 nurses have been deployed to under-served areas across the country since the start of the year, the Department of Health said on Saturday. In a statement, the department said it will also open additional nursing colleges to increase the supply of nursing staff.
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/ 20 January 2008
The African National Congress (ANC) has laid down the law to President Thabo Mbeki following two days of discussions between its national executive committee and the Cabinet, the <i>Sunday Times</i> reported. The ANC was also moving to get Mbeki to appoint Kgalema Motlanthe as a second deputy president in government.
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/ 20 January 2008
Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton won heated presidential nominating battles in separate contests in South Carolina and Nevada on Saturday, gaining strength in a chaotic White House race where no candidate has been able to sustain momentum.
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/ 20 January 2008
President Thabo Mbeki is to meet the management of electricity utility Eskom to ascertain the depth of the current power-supply crisis and the company’s remedial plans, the Presidency said on Saturday. Mbeki will table the matter before the forthcoming Cabinet lekgotla (meeting) that begins in Pretoria on Tuesday.
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/ 20 January 2008
At least 10 people were killed, 10 critically injured and another 23 seriously injured in a bus accident on the R34 near Ulundi on Saturday, KwaZulu-Natal emergency services reported. The accident, involving a Greyhoud bus, took place on the R34 between Melmoth and Vryheid at the turn-off to Ulundi.
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/ 20 January 2008
In a village of 900 souls in France’s Loire Valley, an astonishing will has been left by the village’s oldest resident. The old woman, whom few knew and fewer suspected of wealth, disinherited her own family to leave about £1-million of cash, property, art and gold coins to the commune.
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/ 19 January 2008
Only last month Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe appeared to have crushed all internal opposition when his party backed his bid for a sixth term as president, but it now seems that he finds himself having to put down a fresh internal party rebellion.
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/ 19 January 2008
It has been many years coming, but finally the Hansa Powerade Dusi Canoe Marathon has delivered a black winner. Seven-time winner Martin Dreyer paddled into Durban’s Blue Lagoon with Michael Mbanjwa, clocking seven hours, 33 minutes and 24 seconds for the three-day haul from Pietermaritzburg.
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/ 19 January 2008
The West African state of Ghana is about to take its place in the international spotlight as hosts of the 26th Africa Cup of Nations. It’s been a bit of a scramble, but the former British colony is all set for the biggest show of its short life, one that promises to upstage even last year’s celebrations to mark 50 years of independence.