The South African Communist Party’s Red October campaign will focus this year on fighting hunger and demanding food security for all, the party said on Tuesday. It said the campaign will be based on four pillars, including demanding accelerated land and agrarian transformation to help ensure access to land for food production and security.
Firefighters on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast were on Tuesday monitoring the situation in a pine plantation in the Nyalazi area outside Mtubatuba after they managed to extinguish a ”vicious” fire that started on Sunday. ”We are still assessing the situation and the damage,” said a supervisor for protection services in the area.
A British bank employee who stole huge sums from his employer left a note in a safe admitting he had ”borrowed” seven million pounds (,3-million), a court was told on Tuesday. In fact, the true scale of financial consultant Graham Price’s theft and deception totalled nearer £10-million, Swansea magistrates’ court in South Wales heard.
Chad has closed its consulate in Sudan’s Darfur region more than a week after Sudanese militia crossed from the region and killed at least 36 Chadians before going back to their country, the state radio reported. In April, Chadian officials accused Sudan of recruiting, training and arming 3Â 000 Chadian rebels near their border in an effort to destabilise Chad.
The South Africa Foundation on Tuesday launched a new report that focuses on 12 specific proposals for ways to lower telecommunications costs and widen access. The report comes a week ahead of the telecommunication-pricing indaba. The second round of the government-hosted two-day colloquium will take place in Gauteng.
British comedian Ronnie Barker, half of the long-established and much-loved duo The Two Ronnies, has died at the age of 76, his agent said on Tuesday. Barker had a career on the West End stage and in radio before moving into comedy as part of the classic 1960s TV shows The Frost Report and Frost on Sunday.
The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom has a brand-new, unique feature on its website, Guardian Unlimited, where readers write the travel guides. It started with New York, Rio and Berlin, and now The Guardian is asking for South African readers’ help in sharing the best of Cape Town.
The Australian and World XI teams enter the world of the great unknown over the next fortnight as the ancient sport of cricket makes greater use of technology to get tricky decisions right. The Super Series of three one-dayers and next week’s six-day Test match at the Sydney Cricket Ground will be played under the International Cricket Council’s experimental conditions.
Indian defence journal SP’s Land Forces has defended the accuracy of a report that the country’s defence ministry has initiated action to cancel all contracts with Denel. The South African arms maker has denied the report and the Indian high commission in Pretoria has indicated the contracts may just have been suspended.
The United States military launched a major offensive early on Tuesday in a cluster of cities in the Euphrates River valley aimed at insurgents who were using the area as a safe haven and who had killed 20 marines there in August. It was the second US offensive launched against al-Qaeda in Iraq militants in the Anbar region of western Iraq in four days.