After months of defiant rhetoric over its nuclear programme, Iran formally rejected an international demand that it suspend uranium enrichment on Tuesday to allay Western fears that it wants to build an atomic bomb. The rejection of an incentive package has set Iran on a collision course with the United Nations Security Council.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma on Tuesday said he had been ”tried and convicted” together with convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik even though he had never appeared in the dock. Zuma on Tuesday filed papers in the Pietermaritzburg High Court in response to the state’s replying affidavits that seek a postponement of his corruption trial.
‘Sometimes my mommy doesn’t have enough money to buy me food and I go to bed hungry, does that mean I won’t grow up to be strong and healthy?” These are words that no five-year-old child should ever have to say. One of my learners asked this question while were having a class discussion about the importance of eating all your fruits and vegetables even if you don’t want to, writes Yani Skhosana .
Kevin Bacon did it in <i>Wild Things</i> and again in <i>Invisible Man</i>; Ewan McGregor has done it repeatedly – in <i>The Pillow Book</i>, in <i>Velvet Goldmine</i>, and recently in <i>Young Adam</i>. And now Will Smith and Colin Farrell have done it – well, almost.
African textile producers and exporters are reeling from the impact of new World Trade Organisation rules that have opened up to free-market forces a sector previously protected for more than three decades. The result is that more than 250Â 000 jobs have been lost in Africa, affecting more than another million family members.
Plans to introduce teachers’ licensing by the Department of Education are doomed to failure, judging by the reaction of teachers’ unions. Minister of Education Naledi Pandor floated the idea during a meeting in Cape Town as “part of steps by the Department of Education to improve the quality of education in South Africa”.
Armed robbers made off with R700 000 after holding up a cash-in-transit van north of Durban on Wednesday morning, police said. Captain Shane Smith of the Serious and Violent Crimes Unit said they robbed the Coin Security van on the M4, between Umdloti and Sibaya Casino.
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French arms group Thales, whose South African subsidiary Thint is accused of corruption alongside Jacob Zuma, has a new headache, media reports said on Tuesday. A dossier that Thales thought French investigators had closed has been opened again, with a South African connection.
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila on Tuesday ordered all troops to return to barracks in a bid to restore calm to the country’s capital, Kinshasa, after three days of fighting between his forces and armed supporters of his main presidential rival.