For 34 days they doggedly fought off the mighty Israeli army. But as a three-day-old ceasefire gathers traction, Hezbollah’s hardened fighters are swapping their missile launchers for spades, brooms and briefcases of cash. ”We want to bring south Lebanon back to life,” said Hezbollah’s top official in southern Lebanon.
Eskom has been ordered to pay R15 000 in damages after a giraffe was electrocuted when it touched a power line in Limpopo, News24 reported on Thursday. The judge ruled that Eskom should have envisaged that the placement of the power lines could injure giraffes on the farm in the Phalaborwa area.
For the first time the number of people in sub-Saharan Africa receiving anti-retroviral (ARV) therapy has passed the one-million mark, the International Aids Conference heard in Toronto on Wednesday. The 1,6-million people currently on treatment is a 24% increase over the 1,3-million on treatment in 2005.
Southern African leaders gather for a summit on Thursday in Lesotho to discuss ways of streamlining trade to boost development in the poverty-sticken 14-nation regional bloc. The two-day talks will look at economic goals set for the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Discussions will also touch on subjects such as the Aids pandemic.
The Eastern Cape is fast-tracking housing for those left homeless by recent floods, said the provincial department of housing and local government on Wednesday. Up to 20Â 000 families were either displaced or partially affected by the recent floods, storms and snowfall disasters that struck certain parts of the province.
South African Aids activists have slammed the International Aids Conference for being a show of celebrities and philanthropists, instead of people living with HIV/Aids who could raise the real issues they face. Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) members protested at the South African stand at the conference.
On a day when their Fifa ranking plummeted to a disturbing 76th in the world, Bafana Bafana hardly enhanced a diminishing reputation on Wednesday night with a scrappy, scrambled 1-0 victory over 137th-ranked Namibia at the Sam Nujoma Stadium on the outskirts of Windhoek.
Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has condemned the vandalising of the South African exhibit at the International Aids Conference in Toronto, Canada. A group of Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) activists occupied the stall, with some lying on the ground to symbolise the dead.
Counterfeit money has come into circulation in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, less than a week before the complete changeover to a new currency introduced by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono last week. The counterfeiters appear to be targeting street vendors and other unsuspecting traders.
South Africans are heading to the point where the country will be as wealthy as it was in 1981 — a 25-year gap of economic decline and claw-back — with a per capita income per head of about R24Â 000 a year, futures trend analyst JP Landman told the Cape Town Press Club on Wednesday.