With Africa expecting $25-billion by 2010 if the Commission for Africa’s recommendations are implemented, Tanzania’s President Benjamin Mkapa said each country should be assessed individually to see if previous aid was misused. Mkapa was part of a panel that spoke on how aid can be allocated and used effectively.
Based on a World Economic Forum (WEF) study of 1Â 552 African-based companies presented at the Africa Economic Summit in Cape Town on Thursday, South African companies appear to be leading the way in the response to HIV/Aids, with up to 91% having an HIV/Aids policy in place, the WEF said in a statement.
South Africa’s fixed-line monopoly Telkom will, with effect from August 1, cut ADSL and data prices — with the entry-level internet access product down to R270 per month, the dual-listed telecommunications group announced on Thursday. The company said this form part of its plan to reduce the cost of speedy internet service.
Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh and Ernie Els headline the field for the PGA Tour’s Memorial, where many in the star-studded cast will already have one eye on the upcoming US Open. Phil Mickelson decided to skip the Jack Nicklaus-hosted Memorial to practise at the US Open venue of Pinehurst.
Built like a boxer rather than a tennis player, Rafael Nadal is listed at 74kg in the annual ATP Tour media guide but actually weighs nearly 86kg. Just a growing boy, the Mallorcan says his muscular physique isn’t the result of any secret Mediterranean diet.
United States actor Wesley Snipes was allegedly held briefly at the Johannesburg International airport on Wednesday night due to problems with his passport. Department of Home Affairs spokesperson Leslie Mashokwe confirmed that Snipes was ”interviewed” at the airport.
Zimbabwe needs to import 1,2-million tonnes of food to support its population, the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. ”Some three to four million people will need help in the next year. It will peak this December through January to March,” James Morris told reporters at the Johannesburg International airport.
South Africa’s largest gold-miner, AngloGold Ashanti, ”messed up” when its employees in a north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) paid about 000 (R61 800) in bribes to the Nationalist and Integrationist Front, the group’s CEO, Bobby Godsell, said on Wednesday.
The first inkling Bob Woodward had that the story was about to break came at 9.47am on Tuesday when he got a phone call at home from the offices of Vanity Fair.
The first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, is threatening to sue his barber for selling his hair to a collector for  000. Armstrong was a regular at Marx’s Barber Shop in Lebanon, Ohio, where he would go once a month. But he stopped visiting after he learned that the owner, Marx Sizemore, had collected his clippings from the floor and sold them in May 2004.