The Webby Awards, the leading international awards for websites, on Tuesday recognised the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> as Webby Worthy, a distinction made for the first time this year to recognise sites exhibiting remarkable achievement. The Webby Awards have been hailed as the "online Oscars" by <i>Time</i> magazine.
Eritrea launched a national campaign on Monday that aims to vaccinate about 500 000 children across the country against polio, a United Nations official said. Eritrea has had no confirmed cases of polio since 1997, but cases have been recorded recently in neighbouring Ethiopia and Sudan.
Mick Fleetwood sometimes has to lean over at the dinner table and concentrate on what somebody is saying a few feet away. The 57-year-old drummer for Fleetwood Mac said his partial hearing loss is why he became involved in Monday’s experimental ”quiet” rock concert at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in which about 100 people took part — with mixed results.
She has not even declared her intention of running for president, but the long shadow of Hillary Rodham Clinton over United States politics has already prompted Republicans to train their sights on the former first lady. The Republican strategist Arthur Finkelstein is reportedly raising -million for a political action committee called Stop Her Now.
The Western Cape government has been asked to airlift food parcels to thousands of families affected by torrential rains in the Overberg region, particularly Arniston and Napier. Rivers burst their banks and towns were cut off from the outside world in Sunday and Monday’s deluge, with Bredasdorp among the worst hit.
Most Gauteng school buses were running again on Tuesday after a one-day strike left 66 000 children stranded on Monday. Only the Diepsloot-Honeydew-Zandspruit area was still affected, with the bus operator there continuing to refuse to ferry children, said Gauteng education department spokesperson Panyaza Lesufi.
Water may have to be taken from the ”haves” for redistribution among the ”have-nots”, Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Buyelwa Sonjica said on Tuesday. To address inequities in access to water, ”it may be necessary to reallocate water between users”, she said at the launch of a draft position paper on water-allocation reform.
Jazz musician Robbie Jansen was in a critical but stable condition on Tuesday after he collapsed at home last week from lung problems, his brother said. ”They have been trying to wean him down [from the ventilator] from Saturday, but they put him back on it last night because he is still too weak,” he said.
South Africans involved in the export market could "no longer rely" on a weak currency to drive their businesses, South African Trade and Industry Minister Mandisi Mpahlwa told parliamentarians on Tuesday. He said his department was "very aware that important sectors are facing a crisis and decline, particularly those that have significant employment and social implications".
If you have a cool -million to spare, you might want to take a look at one of the most intriguing and unique property deals on the planet. Biosphere 2, the audacious attempt by Texas billionaire Ed Bass to build a structure that would replicate the entire ecosystem of planet Earth, is up for sale.