Leading media and entertainment group Johnnic Communications will contribute R4,6-million towards a new teaching facility for the Rhodes University school of journalism in Grahamstown, group CEO Connie Molusi has announced. The grant comes as part of a long-standing partnership between the company and Rhodes University.
A grenade exploded overnight in a shop owned by a group linked to Madagascar’s President Marc Ravalomanana in the central town of Fianarantsoa, the Indian Ocean island state’s public safety minister said on Thursday. The blast took place hours after a grenade exploded in the courtyard of the home of former president Albert Zafy.
Seven soccer officials appeared in courts in Polokwane and Bloemfontein on Thursday after being arrested during the police crackdown on football match-fixing. Twenty-nine soccer officials have been arrested so far in the investigation into match-fixing and corruption requested by the South African Football Association.
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Patients in the emerging health-care market — notably in urban townships and rural areas — will in future have less accessibility to the medicines that are becoming more affordable to them in the wake of new government legislation. This is the contention of Johannesburg-based empowerment group Amalgamated Healthcare.
An airport near the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) capital, Kinshasa, that was the scene of a horrific accident in 1996 in which 350 people died has reopened to traffic, a report said on Thursday. On January 8 1996 an Antonov aircraft crashed on take-off, plunging into a crowded market.
Tax returns can still be handed in on Saturday, the South African Revenue Services (Sars) announced on Thursday. Sars offices throughout the country will remain open on Saturday to accommodate taxpayers who are unable to file their tax returns during the week.
Three people, including a 13-year-old girl, were injured when a light aircraft crashed in Syferfontein near Lenasia on Thursday, police said. Captain Mbazima Shiburi said the 49-year-old pilot, who had broken both his legs and one arm, was airlifted to Milpark hospital. His condition was serious but stable.
Ten-year-old Molin considers the streets of Zimbabwe’s capital her home. She’s not alone. Research by a Harare-based NGO, Futures International, in May 2004 indicated that at least 12 000 children eke out a living on the country’s highways and byways. They have become part of the decaying infrastructure of Zimbabwe’s towns.
The call has come from the land of the free, the United States, for election observers for the US electoral process this autumn. The US-based human rights group Global Exchange plans to host at least 28 independent, international monitors as part of its Fair Elections initiative. The monitors will apply internationally developed standards of electoral fairness to investigate and report on issues of concern to the US electorate.
Two years ago, if you had asked Lila Lipscomb what she stood for, she would have referred you to the flag in her garden and her four grown-up children. Her priorities were, in descending order of importance, family, faith, country and a place where all three met, what she might have called ”service”.