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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.
A boy accused of fatally stabbing a man at the Menlyn shopping centre in Pretoria earlier this month was released on R500 bail on Monday. Investigating officer Captain Thomas Janse van Rensburg told the court he does not believe the accused was the only person involved in the murder, and more arrests might be imminent.
On Monday, thousands of Swazi girls removed tasselled scarves symbolising their chastity, abandoning an ancient rite revived to combat the modern scourge of Aids. King Mswati III, Africa’s last absolute monarch, in 2001 reinstated for five years the umchwasho rite, banning sexual relations for girls younger than 18.