Wits University has been embroiled in a race and transformation row since the appointment of a ‘white American male’ as the dean of the humanities faculty. The Mail & Guardian spoke to the protagonists to get to the bottom of the matter, Wendy Orr, director of the transformation equity unit, and Wits university vice-chancellor Loyiso Nongxa.
The Pafuri-Banyini pan in South Africa’s north-eastern Kruger National Park teems with game. Elephant bulls amble among clumps of marula trees and impala leap gracefully across the grassland, where buffalo graze. Located in the triangle between the Limpopo and Luvuvhu rivers where South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique meet, the pan is more than an idyllic corner of the Kruger park.
One in every five ambulances will in future be dedicated for people in life threatening emergencies, the Gauteng health department said on Tuesday. This decision was taken on Monday at a meeting of health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa and councillors responsible for health in the province, said spokesperson Simon Zwane.
An international press freedom watchdog on Tuesday decried a sedition charge brought against a Ugandan journalist for his comments about the death of Sudanese vice president and ex-rebel leader John Garang. The Committee to Protect Journalists said the charge against reporter Andrew Mwenda is a blow to the independent media in Uganda.
A total of 36 000 jobs were created during the 2004/5 financial year through the Development Bank of Southern Africa’s investment projects, the bank said on Tuesday. The new number of jobs created through funded projects was a 45% increase against the same reporting period in the last year, DBSA managing director Mandla Gantsho said.
A boat carrying 102 people capsized in northeastern Nigeria with all passengers feared dead, national media reported on Tuesday. Recent heavy rains have caused flooding and swollen rivers in most parts of the populous West African nation.
Metro Cash and Carry (Metcash) is retrenching ”about 600” of its workers for the company to survive and save 9 500 other jobs, the company said on Tuesday. ”In order for the company to survive, we have to go through the process of retrenching,” said Carlos dos Santos, Metcash’s CEO.
A Colombian plane with 152 people on board crashed in a mountainous region in western Venezuela early on Tuesday, Interior Minister Jesse Chacon said. ”According to our estimates, the plane crashed in Sierra de Perija between 3am and 3.45am,” he said on state television. It is unclear whether anyone survived.
Israeli settlers wept tears of rage and defiance on Tuesday as they clashed with security forces poised to evict them from their Gaza Strip homes after a midnight deadline. Police and soldiers traded punches with their fellow Israeli citizens in the main settlement of Neve Dekalim.
A Colombian plane with 160 people on board crashed on Tuesday in the mountains of western Venezuela, leaving no survivors. The West Caribbean Airways plane, on a flight from Panama to Martinique in the French West Indies, came down in a remote zone in the Sierra de Perija mountains.