Fellow students are never slow to apologise if they bump into Erin Marshall in the corridors. That is the name she is known by to others on her courses in leisure and recreation, sport and drama. But they also know her other name. On the professional wrestling circuit, Marshall fights as Erin Angel.
The Zimbabwe government sourced foreign currency on the black market to fund ”sensitive” projects to do with ”national security” even as it clamped down on the private sector for doing so. President Robert Mugabe’s presidential trips abroad, the procurement of indelible ink from Switzerland prior to the disputed 2002 presidential poll and cash-strapped parastatals benefited from this practice.
It’s 10am and Chengetayi removes the metal teapot from the fire under the winter sky. It is chilly and her two youngest boys are still lying on an old mattress, bundled under blankets. Ten days ago, the mother of four watched her life crumble as bull-dozers grazed on her prized possession in her family home. She was given 24-hours’ notice to evacuate her home in terms of Zanu-PF’s Operation Marambatsvina (drive out rubbish).
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An alleged South African spy nabbed in Zimbabwe in December did not want to travel to the country because he feared arrest, newspapers reported on Sunday.
The man was given no choice but to go, and senior South African Secret Service member George Madikiza had insisted on the mission, according to papers filed in the Pretoria High Court.
Walk around Rangoon and you’d never guess you were living in one of the world’s most brutal regimes. The military presence doesn’t feel overbearing. In plain clothes, though, lurk military intelligence agents. They are everywhere. And then there are the informers on street corners and at meeting places.
Sudan’s only English-language newspaper, the Khartoum Monitor, has been ordered to cease publication while its licence is reviewed, the newspaper’s editor said on Sunday. William Ezekiel said the Supreme Court had decided to review a 2003 court case finding the newspaper guilty of crimes against the state.
The South African, Mozambican and Zimbabwean ministers responsible for the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park held an encouraging meeting at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, on Friday, said Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk on Sunday.
Nelson Mandela and international music stars pressed the world’s richest nations to save lives with increased action against HIV/Aids and poverty at a benefit concert under the midnight sun in Norway’s Arctic. ”Let every child be a healthy child,” Mandela told the cheering crowd of almost 18 000. ”We know what to do and how much it will cost. We now need leadership, vision and political courage.”
Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K. For, without doing anything wrong, he was arrested one fine morning. So begins The Trial, whose lonely protagonist stumbles into a judicial nightmare orchestrated by a malign society. On United States campuses, thousands of freshmen read Kafka’s novel every year.