Angry locals on Tuesday accused authorities of negligence over a fire which engulfed a trade fair Meerut in India, killing 100 people and leaving survivors battling for their lives. Police used batons to drive back hundreds of distraught and angry residents who massed outside the cordoned-off fairgrounds where the blaze swept through crowded tents on Monday night.
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Jacob Zuma’s legal team has continued to produce witnesses associated with the church in support of their belief that his rape accuser has a history of making false rape claims. They brought the man she suspected was responsible for her mystery pregnancy while studying to be a pastor to the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is launching a massive national and international campaign in opposition to a proposed agreement on Non-Agricultural Market Access (Nama) which is being vigorously pursued by the developed countries and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). "We will also be opposing the proposed further liberalisation of services through the WTO negotiations," the union said on Tuesday.
Premiership players’ salaries have reached an all-time high after jumping by 65% since 2000, a new survey released on Tuesday revealed. The average top-flight player now earns £676 000 basic pay, a rise from the approximate £410 000 which clubs paid their stars six years ago.
Zimbabwe State Security Minister Didymus Mutasa on Tuesday ratcheted up pressure against the opposition, threatening to "use guns" to thwart anti-government protests and warning opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai he will pay with his life if he called such protests.
It is an ”objectively determinable factual reality” that beans make you fart, according to the Advertising Standards Authority. It made the ruling in rejecting a complaint by the Dry Bean Producers Organisation against a television commercial for Wildeklawer Sweet Onions.
Rescuers said on Tuesday that they believed they would find no more survivors after an overloaded boat carrying some 150 people sank on a Ghana lake over the weekend, and were now turning to the grim task of recovering bodies — perhaps as many as 100.
A seemingly minor affair involving a Rwandan diplomat and the wife of a Ugandan businessman has reignited tensions between the feuding neighbours with the Rwandan government expelling a Ugandan diplomat and accusing Kampala of harbouring Rwandan dissidents.
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor’s interim defence lawyer is in Sierra Leone to challenge attempts to move the warlord’s trial to The Hague, sources close to Taylor said on Tuesday. Karim Khan filed an urgent application to the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone to ask that no decision be made on the trial venue until the defence is allowed to comment on the issue.
In just under 30 months, Chad has become a typical oil-producing, African country, with allegations of rampant corruption, an ongoing fight with the World Bank and a burgeoning rebellion along the eastern border while the population remains dirt poor. Chad was praised by many as having a model oil programme when the Central African country began exporting oil in October 2003.