The Special National Federal Council of the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce (Nafcoc) has discussed its next leadership ahead of the annual congress next month, marking the black business body’s 40th anniversary, a statement said on Wednesday.
Sudan bowed to a five-point plan tabled by British Prime Minister Tony Blair during talks in Khartoum on Wednesday, which included accepting the free movement of 3 500 African Union troops as ceasefire monitors in Darfur province. Blair also urged Sudan to return its troops to barracks and accept a deadline of December 31 for an agreement on devolution for the south of the country.
To some it is an opportunity to exact revenge from the grave, for others it means delivering a posthumous message to their loved ones. Either way, a service giving customers the chance to send friends, relatives or enemies an e-mail after they have died is the latest ghoulish offering on the internet.
Two bombs exploded at a gathering of Sunni Muslim radicals in the central Pakistan city of Multan before dawn on Thursday, killing at least 39 people and injuring about 100 others, officials said. Police immediately suspected a sectarian attack. The bombing comes less than a week after a suicide attack left 31 dead at a Shi’ite mosque in an eastern city.
Saddam Hussein destroyed his last weapons of mass destruction more than a decade ago and his capacity to build new ones had been dwindling for years by the time of the Iraq invasion, according to a comprehensive United States report released on Wednesday.
<b>Project Manager, IUCN-SA</b>
After training as an attorney, Ridwana’s first involvement with conservation was as a consultant to DEAT to establish its conflict management and dispute resolution systems. In 2002 she was offered a position by the IUCN as project manager on access and benefit-sharing in biodiversity, to assist DEAT to develop a legislative framework to enable communities to derive benefits from providing access to genetic resources.
<b>Administration Manager, ResourceAfrica</b>
“We act as the ‘voice of the voiceless’,” says Ursula van Graan. “I have been revamping the office systems and facilitating workshops, but I hope to become involved in projects in a more hands-on way, so I can understand how what I do at the office affects projects on the ground.”
<b>Chief Executive Officer, Johannesburg Zoo</b>
A qualified civil engineer, Jennifer specialised in transportation before joining the zoo in November 2003. She ran Durban’s bus operations and transport for KwaZulu-Natal province, before moving to an airline and then into corporate banking, along the way acquiring an MBA.
<b>Manager: De Wildt Vulture Unit, De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Trust</b>
Kerri seems too small to handle huge vultures. But woe betide you if you dare to imply that vultures are dirty birds! “I hate sitting behind a desk and my job is unique. I love it to the last feather,” she says.
<b>Project Manager: Water Unit, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Environmentek</b>
In matric, Mapule applied to the CSIR for a bursary to do a BSc in biochemistry. She went on to do honours in pharmacology and an MSc in water resources management.