A meeting of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union opened in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on Friday to discuss the proposed transfer of the pan-African body’s peacekeeping force in Sudan’s western Darfur region to the United Nations, officials said.
John Profumo, the former British Cabinet minister whose liaison with a prostitute nearly brought down a government, and who spent more than 40 years redeeming himself with unpaid work among London’s poor, died after suffering a stroke, an official said on Friday. He was 91.
Hollywood is many things, but isolationist it is not. Long before Bob Geldof and Bono started prancing about in flyblown media enclosures like two lipless leprechauns with hard-ons for poverty, American film was showing us the world as it really is.
Former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s behaviour as a former leader of the government’s campaign against HIV/Aids as well as the moral regeneration movement ”is testimony to the sad state of leadership in South Africa today”, says Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon, who has also criticised the Koeberg ”sabotage” debacle.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma will testify that he had consensual sex with the HIV-positive woman he is accused of raping at his home in Johannesburg last year.
After shaking hands with Frank Rijkaard and commiserating with his own weary players, Jose Mourinho blew kisses to the crowd as he disappeared down the tunnel, saying farewell to Europe until the next campaign. In the VIP box, Roman Abramovich made a show of clapping along with Barcelona’s victory hymn.
Mossel Bay, it is claimed, has the second-mildest climate in the world, after Hawaii, but that isn’t the reason Toyota South Africa chose the coastal town to launch its new Fortuner wagon. A vehicle as capable as this needs to have a decent stage on which to flaunt its assets, and the numerous mountain passes leading across the Outeniqua mountains to Oudtshoorn were tailor-made for the job.
Every year more British skiers flood Bulgaria’s high-altitude mountain resorts, attracted by the well-managed slopes and low prices in the small Balkan country. A two-hour drive south from the capital Sofia gets you to the most popular Bansko ski resort, where numerous construction sites testify to tourism’s rapid development on the Pirin mountain slopes.
Thailand’s top private hospital, the Bumrungrad International Hospital, and a leading Asian travel agency said on Friday they had forged a tie-up to boost medical tourism in the kingdom. Bumrungrad, one of the most popular medical tourism destinations in Asia, attracts more than 400Â 000 foreign patients each year.
Fiat Auto South Africa has launched a new version of its Palio, offering much a higher specification level than the current Go!. For just R13 000 more than the entry-level three- and five-door Palio, buyers of the Vibe will receive the added benefits of aircon, power steering, an audio system with a radio/CD/MP3 player, door pockets and colour-coded exterior mirrors.