The advocate for Pakistani national Khalid Mahmood Rashid, Zehir Omar, has accused the Department of Home Affairs of fabricating a document from the Pakistani Ministry of the Interior to show that Rashid was deported to Pakistan. South African authorities arrested Rashid in October, and the Department of Home Affairs said he was deported to Pakistan the following month as an illegal immigrant.
President Thabo Mbeki will reinforce the message of clean, morally unquestionable leadership, dispel concerns about a centralised Presidency and bank on his urban, middle-class support in countering damaging attacks on him in the presidential succession battle.
Standing in the doorway of her tent, Angelina Jolie tasted the sweet desert air. The Namibian landscape was breathtakingly beautiful, now that all the unsightly people had been removed. Her tongue flickered delicately from her mouth, unsoiled now by the rank flavour of the humans, and contentedly she licked the morning dew off the sunken bridge of her nose.
The genetic modification (GM) battlefield has been extended to biofuels production, with South Africa featuring among a number of countries that are being asked to allow the import of GM maize to make ethanol. The GM industry worldwide wants to use GM to boost the energy properties of crops for ethanol production, says an environmental lawyer.
The rift that is said to divide the African National Congress into two competing camps is a bit like the Loch Ness monster. Sightings are frequently reported in the media. But no one has ever been able to locate the animal or verify its existence. And, like the ever-elusive creature that is said to lurk in the dark waters of the Scottish highlands, the myth of deep-seated divisions in the ANC’s highest leadership structures remains pervasive.
Sixteen-year-old Chris Neil Sugui ponders his future as he and younger brother Mark cast their finely meshed net in the warm waters of the South China Sea for milkfish fingerlings. The few pesos they will earn for their hard day’s work will not buy them out of their bleak predicament — they do not have enough money for school.
The Internet will overtake national newspapers in the battle for advertising spend in the United Kingdom by the end of the year, it was predicted recently. GroupM, which accounts for about 30% of global media buying, says in a report to be published next month that the Internet will account for 13,3% of the £12,2-billion UK advertising market.
It is going to come as a shock to tens of millions of lungs, but the Chinese government is planning a tobacco-free Olympics when the world’s heaviest smoking nation hosts the event in 2008. Long used to breathing some of the most polluted air in the world, Beijingers will get some respite during the games as a result of measures revealed recently.
Zimbabwean authorities are considering grounds for extraditing suspected mercenary Simon Mann to Equatorial Guinea as they want him to stand trial for masterminding a botched coup. Equatorial Guinea Attorney General José Olo Obon forwarded a 200-page dossier to the Zimbabwean attorney general last week.
Sweat is running down Patricia Clark’s face as she shouts at a crowd of hundreds of Liberians through a megaphone. ”The law says, if you jump on a woman without her consent, that is rape. You will go to prison for 10 years. If you rape a child, you will get life. You die in prison; they bury you; they will chain you in your grave.”