Police in central Zimbabwe have arrested an official from the pro-democracy National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) as the group began muted protests in several cities, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. Police in Masvingo city arrested Raymond Muzenda, the NCA’s chairperson for the region.
Distribution of water, reliability of water supply, water storage and vandalism were problems still facing communities hit by a cholera outbreak at the end of 2000, scientists said on Wednesday. The outbreak in 2000 claimed the lives of 265 people in five provinces and 120Â 000 others were infected.
The South African Communist Party (SACP) is adamant that information exists to justify reopening the Chris Hani murder case, it said on Wednesday. ”It is not so much a question of new information, but old information that we believe was never adequately followed up,” said spokesperson Malesela Moleka.
Last Friday UN Special Envoy for HIV/Aids in Africa Stephen Lewis called for a rapid increase in the provision of antiretroviral drugs for Mozambique.
The well-coordinated bomb attacks on Mumbai’s rail network that left 183 dead bore the hallmarks of Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, a senior officer said on Wednesday. Police, however, said they were awaiting test results from evidence at the scene of the blasts including several commonly-used timing devices.
Nelson Mandela’s legacy of tolerance was celebrated in Johannesburg on Wednesday. ”For me, the meaning of Mandela is the idea of plurality and tolerance of ideas. That’s the biggest challenge facing our country today,” said Witwatersrand University academic Xolela Mangcu.
A junior minister handed control of the Somali capital’s sea port to Islamic militia on Wednesday, a day after they defeated hundreds of fighters who were resisting the group’s strict Qur’anic rule. The radical Supreme Islamic Courts Council’s fighters consolidated its grip on Mogadishu following ferocious fighting that ended on Tuesday.
Gauteng residents have been promised more visible policing, more roadblocks and improved 10111 call centres as part of an intensive new crime-fighting strategy to be implemented over the next six months — although an analyst has pointed out that parts of the strategy look like "more of the same".
A senior official in the Western Cape’s department of environmental affairs was on Wednesday accused of racism by corruption accused David Malatsi. Malatsi, a former environment and development planning minister in the province, was being cross-examined by prosecutor Bruce Morrison in the Bellville Regional Court.
It costs a pretty penny to mint one United States cent. With the prices of zinc and copper going through the roof, the smallest US denomination is now worth more as a commodity than a currency, prompting Americans to wonder whether they should drop the little coin with Abraham Lincoln on its face down the well for good.