One of the quietest revolutions to have taken place in post-apartheid South Africa occured at a nondescript, isolated building in Gauteng’s Midrand. The Development Bank of Southern Africa, under the stewardship of CEO Mandla Gantsho, has done more than just change the way it does business.
Africa must urgently boost investments in aquaculture to fight hunger as natural fish stocks on the continent and elsewhere decline, scientists say. Africa is the only region in the world where the per capita fish consumption is dropping, placing an estimated 200-million Africans who depend on fish as a main part of their diet at risk of malnutrition.
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The bulk carrier stranded on the coast near East London and her heavy cargo are causing concern as bad weather hampers the removal of potentially hazardous logs. The hull of the Kiperousa is already showing cracks and breaking up while salvors go about the ”slow, risky business” of removing the logs from the hull.
Sri Lanka’s slain minister of foreign affairs Lakshman Kadirgamar, a Tamil himself, was a fierce foe of Tamil Tiger rebels. Snipers gunned down Kadirgamar, whom the rebels dubbed a traitor to their cause of seeking a separate homeland, at his home late on Friday.
Iraq’s much-awaited draft Constitution is ready and will be presented to Parliament later on Monday, top Shi’ite negotiator Jawad al-Maliki said. Negotiations on Iraq’s first post-Saddam Hussein Constitution have been dogged for weeks by thorny issues revolving around federalism, sharing of oil revenues and the role of Islam in lawmaking.
Robert A Moog, whose self-named synthesisers turned electric currents into sound and opened the musical wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71. Moog died on Sunday at his home in Asheville, according to his company’s website. He had suffered from an inoperable brain tumour, detected in April.
Robert A Moog, whose self-named synthesisers turned electric currents into sound and opened the musical wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71. Moog died on Sunday at his home in Asheville, according to his company’s website. He had suffered from an inoperable brain tumour, detected in April.
A Cypriot plane that crashed in Greece killing all 121 people on board likely suffered a catastrophic air-pressure problem before running out of fuel, the head of the Greek investigation team said on Monday. Akrivos Tsolakis also said that someone tried to land the stricken aircraft after its pilots were incapacitated.
The South African Council of Churches (SACC) is still waiting for clearance certificates from the Zimbabwe government for the transport of a consignment of relief food to that country, the SACC said on Monday. ”All the paperwork has been submitted … we are waiting,” said SACC spokesperson Ron Steele.