The European Union said on Friday it is giving €6-million in humanitarian aid to Eritrea and €3-million in aid to Ethiopia to help those affected by drought and conflict. The money, which will be given to United Nations agencies, will help cover costs to provide urgent food and water supplies to people in Eritrea.
”Rather than be attack dogs or lapdogs, we are guide dogs. We emphasise development, which is news that assists people in improving themselves.” Ferial Haffajee spoke to Thami Mazwai, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board member, about blacklists, canned documentaries and the coverage of presidents.
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Professional and volunteer rescue services worked together to rescue dozens of people across flooded Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage on Thursday. At least two people died, scores were evacuated and dozens rescued, said exhausted emergency workers. Emergency services were swamped with calls for help.
The City of Cape Town on Thursday signed a 20-year contract to buy wind energy from a yet-to-be-built generating farm at Darling on the West Coast. ”Ultimately we would like to see Cape Town become one of the world’s leaders in sustainable energy,” said city mayor Helen Zille in a statement issued at the signing ceremony.
The United Cricket Board of South Africa voted unanimously at their annual general meeting on Thursday afternoon to change their name to Cricket South Africa. ”This doesn’t mean that there will be less focus on unity in cricket,” said CSA chief executive Gerald Majola.
Hezbollah guerrillas killed eight people in Israel in a rocket barrage on Thursday despite an intensive Israeli ground and air campaign to wipe them out, as world powers struggled to end the 23-day-old war. Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said the war had killed 900 people in Lebanon.
Criminals have become so determined that they have resorted to blowing up ATMs with explosives believed to have been stolen from mines. In the last two months, seven ATMS have been blown up, and the police believe that the explosives were stolen from mines. Three of the affected ATMs belong to Standard Bank while four belong to Absa Bank.
Luxury, a homeless man, sits on the corner of a street in Rosettenville with only a torn blanket for shelter. He came from the Transkei in search of a better life in Johannesburg, but is now unemployed and is one of many battling the extreme winter conditions, relying only on donations given to him by the public.
More than 100Â 000 copies of a CD containing a song about Jacob Zuma have been sold legally, and more have been pirated, music-industry insiders said on Thursday. Eric Majola, promoter of the band Izingane Zoma, said the pirating of the popular album, with the catchy Msholozi title track, is ”really bad”.