Could husband-hunting be a deadly business for South Africa’s young women? Jeremy Magruder, a young American economist at the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Social Science Research, thinks so. Frisky, risky chancers may be transmitting the incurable virus among themselves but Magruder suspects that dating, with a view to marriage, is pushing the infection.
Prosecutor-turned-businessman Bulelani Ngcuka is to chair the new-look board of Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront Holdings Company. Derick van der Merwe, MD of subsidary Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, said the holdings board has been reshaped to reflect changes to the Transnet board last year.
Nobody in Zimbabwe is likely to act in a way that will prevent free and fair elections being held in that country on March 31, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday. He was peaking at Tuynhuys after talks with outgoing Namibian President San Nujoma.
The Zimbabwe High Court has given former information minister Jonathan Moyo a 12-day reprieve to vacate a government house following his dismissal last month, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Moyo was about to be thrown out of the government house in the plush Harare suburb of Gunhill on Sunday.
The European Union’s foreign and security policy chief, Javier Solana, on Wednesday promised strong support for the creation of an independent state of Palestine, saying the 25-nation bloc is determined to help Palestinians build up the structures of a viable and separate state.
The National Association of Conservancies of South Africa is selling advertising on highways to help pay for clear-up operations to remove alien plants, the organisation said on Wednesday. The ”adopt a highway” project is run in much the same way as ”adopt an animal” programmes in zoos, said project coordinator Dave Peters.
Africa remains the world’s weak spot in the fight against drugs because most countries on the continent lack the means to combat trafficking, the International Narcotics Control Board has warned. It said while cannabis remains ”a major issue of concern” throughout Africa, the trade in cocaine and heroin was also on the rise.
Zimbabwe will introduce a new currency next year, phasing out bank notes introduced two years ago as a stop-gap measure to ease critical cash shortages across the country, a government daily reported on Wednesday. ”Production is at full throttle as we speak,” the state-owned Herald newspaper quoted a central bank official saying.
A woman has filed a lawsuit against the United States city of Norwalk for exposure to her colleagues’ perfumes and colognes, alleging officials have failed to lessen her exposure to such scents in the town clerk’s office and that she is being harrassed. She is also seeking an unspecified amount of monetary damages and attorney’s fees.
The Cursing Stone of Carlisle was intended simply as an innocent community art project, harking back to the British city’s colourful past. But following floods, disease and a string of other local misfortunes, town elders are considering whether the £10 000 (R110 000) art work should be removed and destroyed, a report said on Wednesday.