Twelve heads of state and 130 ministers are set to attend the high level segment of the COP17 conference to broker a new climate deal.
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/ 12 January 2010
The hotel offered to the Serbian team for the Soccer World Cup is a "decrepit dump," the Belgrade daily <i>Press</i> said on Tuesday.
The secrecy that surrounded South Africa’s apartheid nuclear weapons programme threatens to envelop the trial in Pretoria of a German and a Swiss engineer accused of using their know-how from the apartheid era to further Libya’s atomic ambitions. The case has sparked media controversy in South Africa.
South Africa’s newest — and richest — journalism prize was on Thursday awarded to two investigative reporters of Beeld newspaper. Mail & Guardian and Sunday Tribune investigative teams share the second prize of R100 000.
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s investigative team of Sam Sole, Nic Dawes, Zukile Majova and Stefaans Brümmer were jointly awarded the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Award for South African story of the year on Wednesday for their story "The Kebble-Selebi link". The quartet also won the award for best investigative journalism.
South Africa’s national parks are poised for a surge in gay tourism now that a tourist operator has launched a series of tours designed to initiate gay visitors to the delights of the savannah. While Cape Town is one of the world’s top five gay holiday destinations, the operator aims to lure gay tourists out of the Mother City.
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/ 9 February 2007
A journalist working for South African free-to-air television station e.tv and at least one assistant were arrested in eastern Zimbabwe this week while trying to report on illegal dealings in the diamond-rich Marange district, the station told the Mail & Guardian Online on Friday.
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/ 22 January 2007
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) on Monday affirmed its commitment to the fight against crime, poverty and unemployment in the country. Speaking to the media in the wake of the party’s national executive committee lekgotla (meeting), ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said there needs to be ”unity and purpose” in the fight against crime.
Zimbabwe’s government-appointed Media and Information Commission will not close down two popular private newspapers even if owner Trevor Ncube — also the publisher of the Mail & Guardian in South Africa — loses his Zimbabwean citizenship, state television reported late on Wednesday.
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/ 17 October 2006
Zimbabwe is trying to persuade close ally China to help construct houses for more than a million people in need, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo told the head of a visiting Chinese delegation that providing housing in Zimbabwe’s towns and cities was his government’s biggest challenge, reported the Herald daily.