The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, will on Monday become one of the first non-Catholic religious leaders to meet the new pope, at what has become a critical moment for Anglican-Catholic relations following the former’s inauguration of an openly gay bishop in the United States.
South African banking group Absa on Monday renewed its cautionary notice, saying it and United Kingdom banking group Barclays have been engaged in extensive discussions regarding the terms of a possible transaction. Barclays and Absa are considering feedback from Absa shareholders.
Canadian Gord Fraser won the final stage of the Tour de Georgia on Sunday, as American Tom Danielson of Lance Armstrong’s Discovery Channel team claimed the overall victory. Sunday’s run produced just one significant break, as Italian Andrea Tafi of Prodir-Saunier Duval made a move at the halfway mark.
Absa, South Africa’s largest retail bank with more than seven million customers, has announced that it will invest R302-million over the next financial year (ending March next year) in customer access points that will enable the bank to position itself for growth while enhancing the customer experience.
Fast bowler Andre Nel blasted through the West Indies lineup with a career-best 6-32 to help South Africa win by an innings and 86 runs with a day to spare in the third Test on Sunday. South Africa’s biggest win over the West Indies also gave it the series, with a 2-0 unassailable lead in the four-Test series.
Research released last week has found that there has been almost no redistribution of white-owned land in Limpopo, one of South Africa’s richest agricultural provinces. More than three-quarters of the province’s agricultural land remains in white hands. It paints a bleak picture of the pace of land reform in a province that stands at the centre of South Africa’s land reform programme.
At least 53 people were killed and more than 400 people injured on Monday when a commuter train derailed and smashed into an apartment building in western Japan, firefighters said. ”We have confirmed the deaths of 28 males and 25 women,” said a spokesperson for the fire department in Amagasaki.
For decades, farmers in Salman Pak, a lush townland by the Tigris river, used canopies of date palms to shelter orange groves from a broiling sun. When insurgents took over the area earlier this year they used the foliage to hide stolen cars, weapons caches and supply routes from American drones buzzing overhead.
A hidden army of more than 120 000 girls is working or fighting with armed groups around the world, and international programmes to help them often fail or make things worse, Save the Children says in a report published on Monday. Girls as young as eight are abducted and forced to live with armed groups.
As Kader Asmal sidles off to quieter pastures, all in education must be wondering what to expect from Naledi Pandor, the new Minister of Education. Her track record, both as an educationist and a politician working in the structures of the government, certainly inspires confidence. She would seem to have the necessary experience and ability […]