The United States has imposed sanctions on Israel after a dispute over Israel’s sale of drones — unmanned aerial vehicles — to China, according to news reports. The US has suspended co-operation on several development projects and frozen delivery of night-vision equipment.
The concept of willing-buyer, willing-seller has been underscored by Minister of Agriculture and Land Thoko Didiza in reply to a question about government’s target of 30% of white agricultural land being redistributed to black farmers by 2015.
The elderly man in the dark green tinted glasses looked intently into his cup, took a small sip of the treacle-like coffee, glanced around the room and then began to whisper in his rich Latino accent: ”Luis Posada Carriles. He is a very good guy. Super guy. He is a good friend. The CIA and the government, maybe they will do the right thing and help him out.”
Team chief Ron Dennis was angry and happy at the same time on Sunday night as he celebrated Kimi Raikkonen’s victory for McLaren in the Canadian Grand Prix and disputed the disqualification of his team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya. For Raikkonen, who saw Alonso crash out while running at the front, it was some consolation for suffering a similar fate in the previous race at the European Grand Prix.
Explosions in Tehran and southern Iran killed at least nine people and injured 70 on Sunday in attacks apparently aimed at disrupting this week’s presidential elections. A small bomb concealed in a rubbish container exploded in central Tehran, killing at least one person and wounding three, officials said.
Africa’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati III, has married another teenage bride who has become his 12th wife, a newspaper report said on Sunday, less than a month after secretly taking another young woman. This time round the king secretly married Nothando Dube (18) on Saturday, the Times of Swaziland reported.
A French journalist was flown back to Paris on Sunday night after being held hostage for five months by insurgents in Iraq. Florence Aubenas (44) was greeted by President Jacques Chirac, her friends and family at the Villacoublay airport, outside Paris.
The Johannesburg Organised Crime Unit is investigating the theft of R1-million worth of electronic equipment from the offices of the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> on Saturday night. About ten men armed with rifles tied-up guards at the newspaper’s premises and then loaded about 40 almost-new Apple computers into a vehicle and fled the office park in Milpark, Johannesburg.
It may not be a sport that will make you a millionaire or take you to the Olympics, but youngsters still enjoy a good game of jukskei.
A pioneering language project that has been running for five years is facing closure because of the Gauteng department of education’s (GDE) reluctance to support it.