A high-school student went on a shooting rampage on an American Indian reservation on Monday, killing his grandparents at their home and then seven people at his school, grinning and waving as he fired, authorities and witnesses said. The suspect apparently killed himself after exchanging gunfire with police.
Jackson Nzerebende Tembo, the Bishop of South Rwenzori in Uganda, has rejected funding from the United States diocese of Central Pennsylvania, saying its clergy and bishop, Michael Creighton, endorsed the election of Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003.
"One of the biggest problems locally is the near-total absence of non-corporate media — especially in radio. Just about all the news and info comes from a tiny handful of state or corporation-owned stations. Radio is so cheap that other existing radio stations enjoying their monopoly will never tell you about it." Ian Fraser helps you to be on air within a few hours.
The Northern Cape will have a balanced budget for the first time in almost a decade. This is the result of departments coming under the whip to stop perennial overspending, which caused an accumulated R844-million debt, according to this year’s Budget documentation.
Want to buy a lot of hot air? From April, investors will be able to trade carbon credit notes on the JSE Securities Exchange, as the emissions market contemplated by the Kyoto Protocol comes to life. The protocol, which came into force a month ago this week, sets emission limits for individual countries, and therefore companies.
A week after delivering a set of results that exceeded market expectations, it is reasonable to expect Standard Bank Group CEO Jacko Maree to be taking things easy. Not so. This unassuming, disarmingly reserved veteran banker, shy to a point of appearing intimidated, is preparing to meet his eclectic mix of shareholders.
It is no surprise that countries recovering from armed conflicts are among the most vulnerable to corruption. And in the case of today’s Iraq, corruption could be funding insurgents and criminal networks. Add the billions of aid dollars that come tumbling in and you have a potentially toxic brew.
It began with the pre-Christmas robbery of the Northern Bank, almost universally blamed on the Irish Republican Army (IRA). But it was the death of Robert McCartney, a Catholic killed by IRA gangsters, that shook everything up. The dead man’s sisters and fiancée have blown the lid off what many describe as a culture of Provo intimidation and criminality.
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<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/199502/Zim_icon.GIF" align=left>Tsholotsho has become a symbolic battleground in the Zimbabwean elections with the ruling Zanu-PF, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and independent candidate Jonathan Moyo, former information minister, vying for the parliamentary seat in the March poll. This otherwise sleepy town has impacted like no other on the country’s political landscape.