Radio and newspaper journalists have excelled in the Western Cape Vodacom Journalist of the Year Regional Awards, with the Independent Newspaper group and SAfm each scooping two awards.
"Two years ago, I received a letter from Singapore’s ministry of health. It informed me that since I had been awarded permanent residence in Singapore, I would be automatically included in the country’s Human Organ Transplant Act scheme." Does South Africa’s shortage of organ donors call for similar measures?
It’s the ‘Lord of the Rings’ of music concerts. The cast is stellar, the sets dramatic and the costumes fancy, and it carries on for hours.
”After having just seen Mind Games I’m waiting at the theatre bar to interview its creator and star, Marc Salem. And I can’t decide whether I should make a break for it or silently pray that his publicist will phone to tell me Salem doesn’t feel up to it.” Alex Sudheim opens herself to a real mind bender.
A record number of women are expected to take part in Sweden’s annual moose hunt when it opens next week, with women now making up a quarter of those passing hunting exams, officials say. Hunting is a hugely popular national pastime in Sweden, in particular the moose hunt, and is as much a part of life for the country’s working class as it is for the rich.
Reconciliation is the stuff of ex-pat legend, sipping G&Ts in Happy Valley, spreading white mischief on the veranda at safe distance from the real lives and real problems of the ”natives”. But keeping your distance only serves to keep you distant, writes Phyllida Cox.
Like many children in northern Uganda, Omony has witnessed boys and girls committing terrible crimes. But he can talk about his experiences in a way others cannot. The reason: because 15-year-old Omony is a character in a radio soap called Ngom Wa, which is allowing northern Ugandans to confront the horrors of an 18-year civil war in which children have been both victims and aggressors. Jeevan Vasagar in Gulu reports.
A Free State judge has sharply condemned delays in DNA testing in a murder case in the province, media reports said on Wednesday. ”Must we close the courts, sit and twiddle our thumbs and do everything in Africa time to accommodate a national police commissioner who doesn’t do his job?” asked judge Arrie Hattingh in a circuit court sitting in Harrismith.
The United States government has been accused of trying to undermine the Chávez government in Venezuela by funding anonymous groups via its main international aid agency. Millions of dollars have been provided in a ”pro-democracy programme” that Chávez supporters claim is a covert attempt to bankroll an opposition to defeat the government.
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