Kaizer Chiefs enter this weekend’s South African Airways Supa 8 final against Supersport United looking to re-establish a tradition and, at the same time, overcome a hoodoo. Since the reinstatement of this competition in the 2000/01 season after a four-year absence, no reigning league champion has managed to add the Top 8 to the trophy cabinet — something that used to happen regularly.
Prosecution documents repeat claim that the deputy president was a conscious party to corruption.
An ”all-time war” due to begin on Friday between Nigerian rebels and government troops has been averted by 11th-hour peace talks. Rebel leader Alhaji Dokubo Asari met President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday after Asari threatened to attack foreign oil installations. The threat of violence contributed to last week’s record oil prices when barrels of Bonny light crude traded for more than .
The insurgency in Iraq appears to be more widespread and deadly than Iraqi leaders are prepared to admit, according to military figures and a report by a private security firm. There have been 2 300 attacks in the past month, Iraq insurgency is outpacing coalition attempts to restore peace.
Water used to flow through the taps in Tabata, a sprawling suburb of whitewashed bungalows in Tanzania’s biggest city, Dar es Salaam. These days, the faucets and steel water pipes stand empty in backyards while families send their children to fetch water from a well. Girls heave buckets on to their heads while boys as young as nine wrestle jerrycans on to barrows and trundle them down the streets.
This warning may come a tad late for paddlers taking part in the two-day Fish River Canoe Marathon, which kicks off at the Grassridge dam on Friday, but elephants have been spotted in the Fish river. Well, that’s according to sheep farmer Tiaan Naude, who took a preparatory paddle down the river this week.
Enough funds to pay for the entire primary health and education needs of the world’s developing countries are being siphoned off through offshore companies and tax havens, according to a body formed to expose the offenders. A new group aims to expose how money that could finance global development is being hidden offshore.
Red tape, corruption and a lack of public support for government policies are hampering investment in the poorest countries, a report from the World Bank revealed on Tuesday. The bank also called on the international community to remove trade restrictions and subsidies. The benefits to developing countries would be four or five times the value of aid they receive, it says.
Famine in Africa could worsen unless action is taken to tackle the continent’s HIV/Aids epidemic, according to a senior United Nations official. “Unless urgent interventions are made, the epidemic could cause a steady fall in agricultural production, which would fuel serious famine in African countries,” said Peter Piot, executive director of the joint UN programme to fight HIV/Aids.
I miss the anti-globalisation movement. Not because I want to smash capitalism, and not because I think two dark towers on the swampy banks of the Potomac are responsible for poverty, disease and the voice in the back of my head that keeps telling me to buy new Nikes — but because the most creative street protests since 1968 made it respectable to talk about the international financial system over dinner.