BHP Billiton South Africa on Monday donated R1-million towards the fight against aggravated robberies, bulk syndicated theft, commercial crime and corruption. The money was donated to Business against Crime South Africa, an organisation that supports the government’s fight against crime.
Civilians fled battered villages in southern Lebanon on Monday after Israel said it would halt its air strikes but the Jewish state pledged to step up its offensive to root out Hezbollah guerrillas. Israeli planes fired two bombs into Lebanon to support ground troops.
The United Kingdom will eventually have to bury its growing pile of nuclear waste deep underground, but urgently needs somewhere to safely stash it in the meantime, a government-commissioned study said on Monday. The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management called for a nationwide search for a suitable site for a vast, underground nuclear-waste dump.
Ugandan government officials met overnight with the elusive Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony ahead of the resumption of peace talks aimed at ending a 19-year-old insurgency, officials said on Monday. The spokesperson for the Ugandan delegation said Walter Ochora, a district commissioner for northern Uganda’s Gulu District, met the rebel supremo in Nabanga.
The United Nations Security Council on Monday passed a resolution ordering Iran to halt its controversial nuclear work by August 31 or face possible sanctions. Resolution 1Â 696 expresses "serious concern" at Iran’s refusal to comply with International Atomic Energy Agency orders to halt uranium enrichment and other nuclear work.
Three civilians were killed and about 10 others injured in a grenade attack in Burundi’s Bujumbura, capital blamed on the country’s last remaining active rebels, the army said on Monday. Army spokesperson Adolphe Manirakiza said National Liberation Forces insurgents threw grenades into two bars in Bujumbura’s north-eastern Gihosha neighbourhood late on Sunday.
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Jacob Zuma will have to wait for more than a month for the corruption trial he believes will clear his name after it was adjourned to September 5 by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday. In less than two hours judge Herbert Msimang adjourned the trial to allow the defence and the state time to prepare replies and heads of argument to the state’s application for a postponement.
South Africa’s language education policy has after nine years not yet been put into effect ”convincingly”, Education Minister Naledi Pandor said on Monday. ”Resources have not been made available in amounts that would give effect to the policy,” Pandor told the Language Colloquium in Cape Town.
Hundreds of Somalis rallied in support of Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi on Monday after he survived a confidence vote, narrowly averting the collapse of his fragile interim government. Shouting his name and carrying placards reading: ”Long live Gedi’s government”, crowds of supporters marched in the provincial town of Baidoa.
South Africa’s cricket selectors on Monday named wicket-keeper Mark Boucher as captain for the limited-overs tri-series against India and hosts Sri Lanka next month. Boucher will lead a 14-man squad for the August 14 to 29 event, replacing Ashwell Prince who is captain for the ongoing Test series against Sri Lanka in place of the injured Graeme Smith.