South African Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says the burden of the funding for the African Union — including the Pan African Parliament — will fall on the biggest economy in Africa, South Africa. Asked about funding problems for the Pan African Parliament, she said there is "always a shortage of funds".
Short-term insurer Santam on Wednesday reported a 181% increase in its interim headline earnings per share to 518 cents for the half-year ending June 2004, up from 184 cents in the same period in 2003. The group also declared an interim dividend per share of 95 cents, up 32% from 72 cents in the previous comparative period.
Although blessed with natural wonders, Malawi is struggling to woo visitors and fulfil the poor Southern African country’s ambition of turning tourism into a strong generator of foreign currency. Malawi, which dubs itself the ”Warm Heart of Africa”, boasts a slew of national parks, game reserves, mountains and Lake Malawi — Africa’s third-largest freshwater lake.
A R5-million aid package will be taken to Nyala, West Darfur in Sudan by the Gift of the Givers Foundation on Wednesday, to help ease the region’s humanitarian crisis. The organisation will charter an aircraft to fly the package to the El-Geneina camp near the Chad border, inside Sudan, where there was a huge concentration of internally displaced refugees.
The fire that claimed the lives of three Pollsmoor inmates is only part of a cycle of violence that prison staff fear has yet to reach its bloody climax. That climax, they say, may be the stabbing of one of their own colleagues. There have been three fires in the prison’s cavernous admissions centre over the past three days, the first on Sunday and the others — including the fatal one — on Monday afternoon.
An official report on the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal on Tuesday blamed a failure of leadership at the Pentagon for negligence over prison conditions and confusion over interrogation rules which led to Animal House sadism in the Iraqi jail. The report did not pin direct responsibility on the United States defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, by name, nor did it find any top officials legally culpable.
”’Times they are a-changin”’: The once famously private 60s legend Bob Dylan, whose music moved a generation, is poised to tell all in a memoir to be published this autumn. Dylan, who at the age of 63 is planning to go on tour with Willie Nelson this summer, is set to focus on significant and influential periods of his life in the first of three books called simply Chronicles: Volume One, according to his publisher.
The wreckage of a Russian airliner, which went missing on Tuesday night with 46 people on board, has been found near Russia’s southern city of Rostov-on-Don, emergency officials said on Wednesday, hours after another airliner, which crashed at the same time, was found south of Moscow with all 44 aboard dead.
One lucky reader who takes out a subscription to <i>Earthyear</i> magazine before September 15 2004 will win a weekend getaway for two at birders’ paradise
Ndumo Wilderness Camp worth R6 720.
For many years, during apartheid, the Ndumo Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal was an area the local Mathenjwa community avoided, a place that held the animals they were not privileged enough to enjoy. But, when the Ndumo Wilderness Camp was erected in 1995, the community gained a stake in the wildlife that previously had held no interest for them.