Zimbabwean journalists on Wednesday marched from a local hotel in Harare to where the banned <i>Daily News</i> and <i>The Tribune</i> were formerly housed to mark World Press Freedom Day. Zimbabwe’s theme for World Press Freedom Day this year was <i>No to Statutory Regulation, Yes to Self-Regulation</i>.
The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors to discuss a draft resolution on Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons programme on Wednesday as Tehran announced it had successfully enriched uranium to a new level. Britain and France, backed by the United States, put forward a draft resolution that would make it mandatory for Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment programme
As hideouts go, the Shawal Valley in northern Pakistan is a militant’s dream. Lonely goat trails wind through a rocky 40km corridor that nudges the Afghan border. Its fiercely conservative tribesmen and forbidding high-walled compounds have sheltered Taliban fighters and probably al-Qaeda fugitives.
A massive earthquake with a magnitude of 7,8 rocked the island nation of Tonga on Thursday, triggering a panic evacuation in a New Zealand town after tsunami warnings were briefly issued for the South Pacific. Although the warnings were withdrawn within two hours, hundreds of people in the New Zealand coastal town of Gisborne, more than 2 200km from the quake’s epicentre, fled their homes.
Print Media South Africa (PMSA) has thrown a lifeline to the cash-strapped South African Advertising Research Foundation (SAARF), agreeing to fund a R2.5 million shortfall.
In our letters pages this week, we record a rather different reaction to Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s complaint about South Africa’s white community — different, that is, from the standard howls of outrage and furious protestations that whites are "good citizens".
The Government is set to kick gas-guzzling cars into touch with widespread reforms aimed at promoting fuel economy and reducing emissions. The new measures are in line with international best practice where fuel economy and emissions labelling on every car is compulsory.
Teachers and their colleagues across the public service sector are currently "marking" the government’s report card on a vital subject: meeting employee healthcare needs through affordable medical scheme benefits.
Long-awaited legislation to allow schools cheaper access to the Internet has been approved – more than four years after the Department of Education and the Department of Communications introduced the idea in a policy document.
Suzie Bernardo arrives at the market in the centre of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, at dawn after a long bus ride from a remote slum. There she erects her portable charcoal stove, and sets out tea glasses clouded with fingerprints, and jars of tea, coffee and sugar.