The people of Lebanon are facing their ”hour of greatest need”, the United Nations said on Monday in launching an emergency appeal for -million to help an estimated 800Â 000 civilians whose lives have been disrupted by Israeli bombing of Lebanon.
Fiona Macleod and Gavin Smitsdorp are well on their way to an eco-friendly home — and a cheaper, cooler life.
Fire and brimstone rained down on northern Israel throughout most of this week. And as air-raid sirens sounded and rockets slammed into the country from Hizbullah positions in Lebanon, the state unfurled its extensive safety net. The Israeli Defence Force Home Front Command issued a list of safety recommendations via television and newspapers — including step-by-step instructions on what to do when the sirens sound.
His hands are bruised. The deep cuts on his darkened face are only beginning to heal and so are the soles of his feet, which were so swollen he could not wear shoes. From observing the injuries you can conclude only one thing: that whoever did this to him must have wanted not just to punish and maim, but to leave a lasting impression on the victim.
Professor Mosa al-Mosawe has lost 34 of his staff since 2003. And when he says “lost”, he doesn’t mean that they have resigned or retired, or simply moved on to pastures new. He means that they have been shot or kidnapped, never to be seen again. “Around 50 students have also gone missing,” he says, speaking on a cellphone from his office in Baghdad University.
My friend Sibi and I took a walk in the night through Kigali, 10 years after the end of the genocide and the Rwandan civil war. There was much to talk about. We hadn’t seen each other for more than 20 years, and here we were, meeting in a place that had gone through a holocaust since we’d last met.
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The developer of Stellenbosch’s upmarket De Zalze golf estate appeared briefly in Cape Town’s Bellville Regional Court on Monday in connection with fraud and theft charges involving bearer bonds worth over R11-million. Klaus Strauli, a Swiss national, had been formally arrested by the Scorpions at Cape Town International airport.
Residents of Lydenburg in Mpumalanga are to march this week against changing the name of their town, contending that correct procedures had not been followed. ”Proper procedures were not followed. We have all the proof of all the minutes of the name-change committee and the attendance registers,” said Democratic Alliance councillor Isabel Dickson.