One of the greatest political and journalistic mysteries of the past century may have been solved after a former FBI official outed himself as ”Deep Throat”, the source of the Washington Post‘s explosive revelations about president Richard Nixon’s Watergate cover-up.
A new ”scramble for Africa” is taking place among the world’s big powers, who are tapping into the continent for its oil and diamonds. While sub-Saharan Africa is the object of the West’s charitable concern, billions of dollars’ worth of natural resources are being removed from it.
Age offers little protection against Aids — children are often the disease’s unwitting victims. Yet for the young ones in Southern Africa, treatment is only just beginning. But the long-term health implications are still largely unknown while lack of child-specific dosages presents another major challenge.
International agencies, public health experts and Aids activists have dismissed the Indian government’s claim of a massive drop in new HIV infections between 2003 and 2004 as incorrect and misleading, according to reports on the <i>Science and Development Network</i>. India ranks second only to South Africa, which has 5,3-million HIV infections.
Staff at Afrikaans Sunday newspaper <i>Die Wêreld</i> have not been paid their salaries for May and unless a white knight is found, the paper will not be published this Sunday. <i>Die Wêreld</i> published its first issue in mid-April and has been moving towards being a fairly traditional tabloid.
When rock star Bob Geldof named his new aid concert Live 8, everyone knew who the real audience would be. And when he timed the five simultaneous concerts for July 2, just days before the G8 summit to be held at Gleneagles in Scotland, he removed all doubts that the audience would not be the millions who would attend or watch the concerts, but eight leaders in a Scottish retreat.
Zimbabwe’s tourism industry, once the country’s second largest foreign currency earner, has declined sharply in the past few years as a result of the ongoing economic and political crises. In a bid to combat negative perceptions about the country and encourage visitors to return, tourism officials and the government have roped in an unlikely ally — taxi drivers.
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The government will shortly start moving the community on Modderklip farm to give effect to a recent Constitutional Court judgement, the Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs said on Tuesday. The department, which gave no date for when the 70Â 000-strong community is to be moved, said the matter is a ”priority”.
Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmad Nazeef admitted on Tuesday that ”mistakes” took place during last week’s constitutional referendum, according to the Middle East News Agency. Last week, 83% of Egyptian voters said yes to a constitutional change to allow more than one candidate to run for presidential elections.