A new Holocaust museum, designed to affirm Israel’s claim to be the principal keeper and interpreter of survivors’ memories, opened in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Fifteen presidents and prime ministers joined survivors at the dedication of the stark prism-shaped concrete structure cutting through the Mount of Remembrance.
Bernard Ebbers, the maverick former boss of WorldCom, was on Tuesday found guilty of taking a lead role in the largest fraud in corporate history and could now face the rest of his life in prison. The conviction is a landmark result for United States prosecutors seeking to restore confidence in corporate America.
A Mozambican immigrant was trampled to death by an elephant while trying to cross through the Kruger Park into South Africa. The woman — whose age is not known — was crossing with four others through the northernmost section of the park near Punda Maria, said park spokesperson Raymond Travers
Harvard’s beleaguered president was fighting for his job on Tuesday night after a humiliating no-confidence vote from his fellow academics. The 218-185 vote by members of the faculty of arts and science was ostensibly symbolic, with decisions about Lawrence Summer’s fate resting with the university’s governing board.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is asking the Supreme Court of Appeal for leave to appeal against a series of fraud convictions. The Pretoria High Court early in February dismissed an application by Madikizela-Mandela for leave to appeal to the SCA for her conviction on 43 counts of fraud and a suspended sentence.
Protesters burned Japanese flags in Seoul on Wednesday as South Korea’s foreign affairs minister denounced Japan for stepping up its claim to disputed islets under Seoul’s control. Minister of Foreign Affairs Ban Ki-Moon condemned the move as ”deplorable”, while his ministry said the Tokyo government must take full blame for all consequences.
World oil prices fell on Wednesday with Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) ministers meeting in Iran under pressure from cartel kingpin Saudi Arabia to raise their crude production quotas owing to strong demand for global energy. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude, for delivery in April, fell to ,45 a barrel in electronic deals.
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was slightly stronger in noon trade on Wednesday, with a softer rand supporting resources stocks. The heavy weight of resources kept the bourse in the black, even though decliners outnumbered advancers on the resources index by about two to one.
On Thursday the European Commission pledged €15-million (R121-million) to Zimbabwe and €12-million (R97-million) to Colombia.
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A handful of South African trade unionists gathered outside the Zimbabwe embassy in Pretoria on Wednesday morning for a picket in support of workers’ rights in that country. Congress of South African Trade Unions representative Jantjie Chiloane said more protesters were expected to arrive by bus from Johannesburg.