Only 40% of the 11-million hectares of land seized from whites since February 2000 have been taken over by black farmers, President Robert Mugabe was quoted as saying on Friday. Mugabe told an annual gathering of 100 traditional tribal leaders the government had resumed allocating land after a temporary halt, according to state radio and the official Herald newspaper.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK</b>: In <i>The Libertine</i> Johnny Depp turns up in a more challenging and ultimately more successful role, writes Shaun de Waal.
Niren Tolsi investigates the melding of urban fashion aesthetic with traditional craft.
Maintaining physical health should not be one of the challenges faced by initiates attending an initiation school, Free State provincial minister of health Sakhiwo Belot said on Friday. ”Horrendous malpractices, often resulting in the physical … and psychological debilitation and even death of young men in these schools are well known,” the minister.
A New Zealand policewoman is receiving counselling after the discovery she had been moonlighting as a prostitute, but has kept her job on the force, police said on Thursday. The Auckland officer had taken up part-time work as a prostitute "for a limited time", said police media communications manager Jon Neilson.
Mike Huckabee, the rock-playing Governor of Arkansas, will pardon Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards for his 1975 reckless driving charge in the American state, the governor’s spokesperson said on Thursday. "The governor is in the process right now to give a pardon to him," said Alice Stewart.
Researchers believe they have found a key insight into déjà vu, the eerie sensation of seeing something that has already been experienced, the <i>New Scientist</i> magazine reports. Experiments suggest that déjà vu can be triggered independently, without a real memory to prompt it.
In an edited extract from her short story <i>Jungfrau</i>, Mary Watson introduces us to the sound of midnight.
Nadine Botha speaks to a crop of girl rockers who want to be recognised for their musical ability, not their bra size
<b>DVD OF THE WEEK</b>: Niren Tolsi reviews <i>Gorillaz Demon Days Live</i>, shot in November last year at the Manchester Opera House.