British Prime Minister Tony Blair launched a strongly-worded attack on Wednesday on Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, calling his regime a ”disgrace” that had brought the country to its knees. ”What the regime is doing in Zimbabwe is a disgrace,” Blair told Parliament in his weekly question-and-answer session.
There is no clear definition for the New Age movement. It is simply a term that lumps together a wide variety of beliefs, customs and practices, from acupuncture to astrology, Gnosticism, Wicca and various indigenous belief systems that have only recently been acknowledged in the West.
”Maybe it was inevitable that as the child of a reborn God-botherer and a misanthropic atheist, I might end up a little spiritually perplexed. My grandmother, a stout-hearted Matabeleland farmer, read her gilt-edged Bible every night, but was known to call in a nyanga (traditional healer) when necessary”, writes Nicole Johnston.
International community pressure to convince Iran not to develop nuclear arms should apply to Israel as well, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said on Wednesday. Saud made his comments during a wide-ranging inaugural speech at the second Saudi-British Two Kingdoms: Friendship and Partnership conference, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
The global economy, which has coped amazingly well with fallout from natural disasters and lofty energy prices, is expected to pick up a little more speed in 2006 and log another year of brisk growth. Still, risks remain, the International Monetary Fund indicates in its latest World Economic Outlook, released on Wednesday.
A Bloemfontein broker thought to have committed suicide at the Augrabies Waterfalls earlier this month was found alive at Springbok’s caravan park, police said on Wednesday. Gert Louis Rossouw (36) allegedly admitted after his arrest on Tuesday night that he had earlier made a false report (his suicide note).
Researchers said on Wednesday they have found geometrically cut stone blocks covering a central Bosnian hill that a hobby archaeologist claims is a pyramid. Archaeologists and other experts began digging on the sides of the mysterious hill near the central Bosnian town of Visoko last week.
The Department of Health has rejected a demand for the inclusion of the Aids Law Project in South Africa’s delegation to next month’s special United Nations session on HIV/Aids. The demand was made by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) as a precondition for its acceptance of its own inclusion on the list.
Sub-Saharan Africa is poised to record growth of 5,8% in 2006, its best performance in more than 30 years, as higher commodity prices, stronger agricultural output and economic reforms start to pay dividends, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Wednesday.
Bangladesh were struggling to avoid an innings defeat on Wednesday after an astonishing double century from Australia fast bowler Jason Gillespie in the second and final Test. At close on day four, Bangladesh were 195-4, needing 189 more runs to make Australia bat again after conceding a 384-run first-innings lead.