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The economic rescue package for Zimbabwe, touted at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Lusaka last week, is a non-starter, economists and political commentators argued this week. They said that at least -billion would be needed to restore Zimbabwe’s collapsing infrastructure and revive commercial agriculture, the mainstay of the formal economy.
Crucial security functions at Parliament, the South African Revenue Service, the KwaZulu-Natal legislature, two parastatals and several big private companies are in the hands of a firm with a history of corrupt practices, Friday’s Mail & Guardian reveals.
The ANC plan for party secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe to interview dismissed deputy health minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge is a compromise between those who want her disciplined for her comments about the ANC president and those who feel she should not be sanctioned by the party.
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The Duke of Wellington may have said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the fields of Eton College, but more surely the game of rugby was founded on the fields of another British public rugby school appropriately called Rugby. And who is to blame for that? An Englishman called William Webb Ellis, who — horrors of horrors for the English — is buried in the town of Menton in the south of France.
KwaZulu-Natal swimmer Riaan Schoeman was the talk of the South African swimming squad after winning the 400m individual medley final in a new South African record time on Wednesday, the second day of the International Swim Meeting in Tokyo, Japan.
The Kenyan president refused on Wednesday to approve legislation that has widely been condemned as an attack on independent media because it would allow Kenyan courts to compel reporters to reveal their sources. President Mwai Kibaki rejected the Bill a week after hundreds of journalists protested while wearing black gags.
The Constitutional Court reserved judgement on Wednesday on an application by senior editors of Independent Newspapers to access restricted documents relating to former intelligence boss Billy Masetlha. Lawyers for Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils argued that allowing this would compromise the intelligence services.
Vermont’s clothing-optional capital is stripping off its temporary ban on public nudity. A month after passing the temporary ban after an elderly tourist strolled naked through the centre of town, Brattleboro city board members voted 3-2 on Tuesday to reject a proposed ordinance that would have made it permanent.