South Africa’s public broadcaster will this week launch a rolling news network that aims to provide an African perspective in a market previously dominated by Western broadcasters. South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) News International will be officially launched by President Thabo Mbeki on July 20.
A powerful bomb ripped through a crowd of opposition supporters in central Islamabad on Tuesday night, killing at least 13 people and ratcheting up the stakes in Pakistan’s snowballing crises. The city police chief blamed a suicide bomber but witnesses thought the bomb was a timed device.
Scientists have discovered the underground remnants of an ancient lake in Sudan’s arid Darfur region, offering hope of tapping a precious resource and easing water scarcity, which experts say is the root of much of the unrest in the region.
An airliner carrying 175 people crashed and burst into flames on Tuesday in São Paulo after landing at Brazil’s busiest airport in driving rain. The state governor said all aboard were likely dead. The São Paulo fire department said at least 200 people, including some on the ground, were dead at the scene. There was no immediate news of survivors.
"It is a nasty experience, which I do not want to be reminded of. But if you try to keep it to yourself, it will remain a shock for a long time. I cannot even explain the pain I felt after being told that I was carrying dead bodies in my womb," says Sesedzai Manzanga, a Harare teacher, as she recounts giving birth to a dead set of twins two years ago.
An airliner carrying 175 people crashed and burst into flames on Tuesday in São Paulo after landing at Brazil’s busiest airport in driving rain. The state governor said all aboard were likely dead. The São Paulo fire department said at least 200 people, including some on the ground, were dead at the scene. There was no immediate news of survivors.
National Intelligence Agency files come in Manila folders that get softer with handling. There is space on the front to list the people authorised to open them, and a detailed routing form to record their passage through the agency. ”GEHEIM–SECRET”, they say in smudged red capitals, while red corners warn of dangerous contents even when they are racked in the archive.
The decision to prosecute apartheid-era minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok and four others was largely welcomed on Tuesday. The Freedom Front Plus, however, took exception to the National Prosecuting Authority’s decision, announced on Monday, saying it was a mistake.
Thousands of offspring of Nazi Holocaust survivors in Israel are seeking reparations from Germany to pay for psychiatric treatment they say they require as a result of trauma suffered by their parents. The lawsuit was seen as the first ever filed by representatives of the so-called ”second generation”.
The Mail & Guardian is going ahead with plans to screen a controversial documentary on President Thabo Mbeki at its Critical Thinking Forum in Johannesburg this week — despite possible legal action against the documentary’s producer by the South African Broadcasting Corporation.