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/ 12 December 2007
Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for a car bomb strike in Algiers that killed dozens of people as rescuers continued to work to find survivors. Amid a disputed death toll, rescuers pulled seven people alive from the debris of one of the bombs which tore through the offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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/ 12 December 2007
Ecologists say a tragedy is unfolding in North Africa where construction firms are moving in on some of the last unspoilt stretches of Mediterranean coastline in the search for profits. With Spain trying to preserve what remains undeveloped on its built-up shoreline, Morocco has stepped forward as a willing host for large-scale tourism development.
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/ 12 December 2007
Optimists call it the end of the Iron Curtain. Pessimists fear a ”Fortress Europe” or a wave of illegal immigration from December 21, when passports will be checked at fewer European borders. From next March, the extended zone will also include airports in a total of 24 European countries, where more than 400-million people live.
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/ 11 December 2007
There is a moment when you can sense the power draining away, when a point of no return has been reached and passed. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing that moment now in Britain, as a sense of staleness, sleaze and incompetence overwhelms his government.
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/ 11 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>With little more than a week to go before the ANC conference, the cleft in the party appears to be deepening and sniping between factions more acrimonious and personal. After interviews with party ‘elders’ last week, the Mail & Guardian asked four more senior leaders to reflect on the state of the ANC and its clouded future
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/ 11 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>As the clock ticks towards the ANC’s congress, there’s anxiety and excitement. Not only internally, but in the nation, the ANC leadership battle has unleashed new opportunities for renewal and active particiÂpation. Everybody is talking, not just about who’ll lead us, but also about how we want to be led, writes Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge.
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/ 11 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>With little more than a week to go before the ANC conference, the cleft in the party appears to be deepening and sniping between factions more acrimonious and personal. After interviews with party ‘elders’ last week, the Mail & Guardian asked four more senior leaders to reflect on the state of the ANC and its clouded future.
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/ 11 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>With little more than a few days to go before the ANC conference, the cleft in the party appears to be deepening and sniping between factions more acrimonious and personal. After interviews with party ‘elders’ last week, the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> asked four more senior leaders to reflect on the state of the ANC and its clouded future
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/ 11 December 2007
A settlement has been reached between the South African Revenue Service (Sars) and Nampak, Africa’s largest packaging manufacturer. In a joint statement by Sars and Nampak on Tuesday, the parties said they had agreed to settlement terms to resolve a matter relating to outstanding taxes, which were in dispute for the last two years.
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/ 11 December 2007
Cape Town firefighters have brought under control a fire that broke out in an industrial building in Salt River early on Tuesday. Johan Minnie of the city’s disaster management said the fire, which started in the building before spreading to a nearby train station, had finally been contained by late afternoon.