Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels took their separatist campaign to a new level on Monday with their first air raid. Their aircraft may be small in size and number, but the daring night-time bombing mission on a key air force base beside Sri Lanka’s only international airport strikes a significant psychological blow.
African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma has again called for political tolerance and open debate in the ruling tripartite alliance, media reports said on Monday. Zuma was delivering the annual Chris Hani Memorial Lecture in honour of the South African Communist Party hero, who was assassinated in 1993.
There has been a huge spike in internet banking fraud in the past two months, according to a recent report in the Herald Online. Port Elizabeth commercial crimes unit head Andre Horak said 30 cases of internet fraud, totalling more than R800 000, had been opened since the beginning of February.
Up to a billion dollars’ worth of gold and silver on a sunken 17th-century English warship may soon be recovered following an agreement with Spanish authorities. Professional marine treasure hunters working with the British government have reportedly been given the go-ahead to recover gold and silver pieces from what is thought to be the wreck of the HMS Sussex.
Western governments are working to split Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF from President Robert Mugabe ahead of a potentially decisive meeting this week. Diplomatic sources say Britain and the United States believe that the strongest challenge to Mugabe comes not from the opposition but from within the ruling Zanu-PF.
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India were knocked out of the World Cup on Sunday after Bangladesh beat debutants Bermuda in a final Group B match to reach the Super Eights. India were condemned to their earliest exit since 1992 when Bangladesh clinched a seven-wicket win in the rain-marred match at Queen’s Park Oval.
The challenge to United States President Bush’s authority from a newly empowered Congress deepened on Sunday after leading senators — Republicans as well as Democrats — openly questioned the credibility of his Attorney General. ”We have to have an Attorney General who is candid and truthful,” said Arlen Specter, the most senior Republican on the Senate judiciary committee.
The QS World MBA Tour, the world’s largest international programme of business school information fairs, visits Johannesburg on Monday March 26, with a record number of business schools from across the globe. The QS World MBA Tour is the primary recruitment tool for the world’s leading business schools, and has been touring the globe now for 13 years.
Around the globe, women are increasingly turning to an MBA as a means to accelerate their careers, according to a new report from QS TopMBA.com <a href="http://www.topmba.com" target="_blank" class="standardtext">www.topmba.com</a>. Based on a survey of more than 37 000 young professionals who attended the QS World MBA Tour last year, 39% were female in comparison to 31% in 2005.
Climate phenomena such as El Niño and global warming have a disproportionate effect on the poor. That is why meteorology has a crucial contribution to make in the fight against poverty, scientists say. "Vulnerability is greatest where there is least infrastructure and the population is poorest," says Southern Pacific University Network (Rupsur) expert Yesid Carvajal.