I was struck by one sentence in the apology written by axed Sunday Times columnist David Bullard for the article that abruptly ended his tenure at the paper. ”I can’t claim to believe everything I have written because some columns were written purely for sensation,” he wrote. Elsewhere, he has referred to his writing as ”showbiz”.
The resumption in violence in the Burundian capital Bujumbura is causing panic in the country. Outside the capital, residents spend their nights in the bush for fear of being attacked as the death toll rises. A bomb destroyed part of the Vatican embassy compound and a dining hall in the Kiriri University campus in the latter part of April.
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African National Congress president Jacob Zuma has been ”extremely unwise” to claim divine blessings for the leading political party, church leaders of the Apostolic Faith Mission said in Tuesday. In a statement, the leaders warned of a Messianic danger when invoking a divine blessing on a political party.
Governmental food-price regulation was not the right way to handle the ”potential crisis” around increased food costs, the Milk Producers Organisation said on Tuesday. Director Etienne Terre’Blanche said the problem with regulating prices was that the country could not regulate foreign companies’ prices.
An independent Zimbabwean election monitoring group expressed doubt on Tuesday over the credibility of the results of the presidential election and accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of attacking observers. The Zimbabwe Election Support Network was the first observer group to publicly question the results.
Five sectors of employment have the highest risks when it comes to workplace health and safety, a labour executive said in Vryheid on Tuesday. KwaZulu-Natal Labour Department’s acting provincial executive manager Edward Khambula said the iron and steel, construction, agriculture, food, drink and beverage sectors had the highest number of accidents in South Africa.
It is estimated that 5,6-million South Africans are infected with HIV/Aids in 2008, said the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA) on Tuesday. The HIV prevalence rates from the ASSA 2003 model are ” roughly consistent” with the national prevalence survey conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has suspended its group executive of news and current affairs, Snuki Zikalala, with immediate effect. The public broadcaster said Zikalala had been suspended by chief executive Dali Mpofu pending the outcome of a probe into allegations of misconduct.
A Grammy-nominated violinist who left his -million, 285-year-old Stradivarius violin in a taxi is giving a free concert at an airport taxi stand for the driver who returned it. Philippe Quint (34) left his 1723 ”Ex-Keisewetter” violin in Mohammed Khalil’s taxi when returning from Newark Liberty Airport last week.
Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said on Tuesday that four more of its members had been killed by supporters of President Robert Mugabe in nearly a month of post-election violence that is being investigated by South African officials.