SADC countries are proposing the reopening of ivory trade to countries certified as trading partners by the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species (Cites). But a conservation group warned this week that the region does not have its own house in order, as domestic sales of ivory continue to thrive.
Two’s company. Three’s a crowd. And whoever they are, I don’t trust them. Yes, in the ever expanding list of things I don’t ”get”, the most crippling entry has to be people. I don’t get people. What’s their appeal, precisely? They waddle around with their haircuts on, cluttering the pavement like gormless, farting skittles. They’re awful.
Ten years after it replaced the short-lived senate as Parliament’s second chamber, the National Council of Provinces has very little to celebrate. The gathering momentum behind proposals to trim the provincial system down to size is a real existential threat to the council, but even without constitutional changes to hurry it to oblivion, it has long since drifted into irrelevance.
Spain’s two-time Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso won his second successive Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday to record his McLaren team’s 150th success. Alonso — recording his 17th career victory — beat home teammate Lewis Hamilton, who finished in his fourth successive second place in his maiden season.
International Cricket Council president Percy Sonn, who died on May 27, will be remembered as an able administrator and a firebrand who sometimes spoke his mind too freely for his own good. He was a major figure in the racial unification of South African cricket and served as president of the United Cricket Board from 2000 to 2003.
Zimbabwe police say more than 200 opposition activists and officials arrested on Saturday are suspects in recent petrol-bomb attacks on police stations, shops and some government supporters. Riot police, armed with pistols and batons, raided the Movement for Democratic Change’s (MDC) head office in Harare on Saturday.
International Cricket Council (ICC) president Percy Sonn died on Sunday morning at the Durbanville Medi-Clinic in Cape Town. Sonn (57), a former president of the then United Cricket Board of South Africa, developed complications after he was admitted to hospital to undergo routine colon surgery on Monday.
Paul Newman’s career has included winning an Oscar, establishing a food company to fund charities, and operating a restaurant, but he said this week he is retiring from acting. ”I’m not able to work any more as an actor at the level that I would want to,” the Hollywood star (82) told ABC News.
The history of Durban’s Grey Street casbah area — the subject and setting of various works of fiction and non-fiction — is the microcosm of the South African reality, writes Niren Tolsi
African National Congress deputy president Zuma has said through his lawyer that he is aware of a mysterious report seeking to discredit him, and he h