Recently, judges in Uganda went on strike to protest against government interference with the judiciary. The strike action followed government security agents’ raid on the high court in Kampala to arrest six opposition supporters. The six men, members of the Forum for Democratic Change led by Kizza Besigye, had been granted bail after being accused of planning a coup and of being members of the People’s Redemption Army.
South Africa is investigating two main sources of biofuel, maize and sugar, and already proponents are starting to square off. The windfalls task team has recommended investment incentives for the manufacture of biofuels, or liquid fuels from indigenous raw materials, excluding crude oil and natural gas.
To drive social change that makes a real difference in the lives of people living in poverty in Southern Africa, we need to transform the way we do business. Innovative attitudes and practices of organisations and individuals that create change, especially by developing and implementing policies and strategies to end poverty in Southern Africa, can now be nominated for the Drivers of Change Award.
A strong link between droughts and violent civil conflicts in the developing world bodes ill for an increasingly thirsty world, say scientists, who warn that drought-related conflicts are expected to multiply with advancing climate change. "Severe, prolonged droughts are the strongest indicator of high-intensity conflicts," said Marc Levy of the Centre for International Earth Science Information Network .
Across the world, experience has shown that film can only survive with state support. A raft of public sector initiatives to increase the volumes and quality of South African film, television programming and audio-visual material created for new media is on the cards.
Ronnie Kasrils, the Minister of Intelligence, requested an opinion from the South African Human Rights Commission as to whether statements that he had made amounted to hate speech as defined in the Constitution. His comments were characterised as hate speech by Helen Suzman and by the South African Jewish Report.
When last did you hear a good-news story coming out of Darfur? For that matter, have you ever heard a good-news story from there? Well, I’ve got one. In the South Darfur city of Nyala, there is a small group of Sudanese men and women who risks life and limb each day to deliver humanitarian information over the radio to the millions of displaced persons in the region.
Bloemfontein Celtic produced the great escape of the Premier Soccer League season when they qualified for the Absa Cup quarterfinals on Sunday via a 3-2 penalty shoot-out advantage over Orlando Pirates. Also qualifying for the quarterfinals were Santos and Mvela Golden League’s Dynamos.
The Johannesburg Metropolitan Bus Service Company has offered a R50 000 reward for information that will help track down those responsible for the killings of and attacks on bus drivers, said its chairperson, Vincent Mntambo, on Sunday.
Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer died in hospital on March 18 after being found unconscious in his hotel room, the team announced. Woolmer (58), a former England Test batsman and coach of South Africa, had seen his team crash out of the World Cup on March 17 after a shock group-D defeat by Ireland at Sabina Park.