Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday called for swift remedial action from the governments and business in Angola and South Africa to strengthen bilateral economic ties. He was addressing the Angolan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the South African business community of Luanda.
A Greek taxi driver was hailed as a hero in Athens on Wednesday after returning an Olympic silver medal left in the back of his cab by a Dutch rower. The driver is to be honoured by Athens Olympic Games organisers for swiftly handing back the medal after it was mislaid by a member of The Netherlands’ men’s eight rowing team.
Russian Federal Security Service spokesperson Sergei Ignatchenko said on Wednesday that studies of the wreckage of the two planes that crashed on Tuesday have shown no terrorist act was carried out aboard the planes. The two planes crashed nearly simultaneously, killing a total of 89 people.
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The number of schoolchildren bunking from 15 Johannesburg schools for drinking sessions has doubled in recent months, police said on Wednesday. The head of Johannesburg’s Adopt-a-Cop programme, Inspector Alpheus Matsaba, said Gandhi Square has become a hotbed of drugs, rape and alcohol misuse, despite frequent arrests.
Is your boss a charming, well-educated and polished leader intent on climbing the career ladder? If so, he could be a psychopath, psychologists gathered in Stockholm said on Wednesday. Recent research has shown that not all psychopaths are violent killers — many of them hold normal jobs, with some rising to the highest levels of executive management.
There is a meat market, where haunches of goat hang from the thatched roof. There are tea stalls and shacks selling hair mousse and skin cream. Some women dig vegetable plots while their neighbours shape clay and water with their bare hands to build new houses. The refugee camp at Iridimi, in north-eastern Chad, is home to 15 000 people who have fled the violence in Darfur.
Botswana’s Debswana Diamond Mining Company and the Botswana Mining Workers’ Union are talking informally on a resolution to the three-day-old illegal strike at three mines. The strike could end before a contempt-of-court hearing against strikers and all union officials resumes on Thursday.
Leaders of a Botswana Bushmen organisation left for the United States on Wednesday to obtain support for their fight against their government’s efforts to relocate them. The Botswana government is trying to persuade the Bushmen to opt for relocation to settlements outside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
The United Nations said on Wednesday it is still lacking two-thirds of the money it needs to meet emergency aid needs in Sudan for the rest of the year, particularly in the war-torn western Darfur region. Families who were forced to flee their homes and abandon their fields have completely missed this year’s planting season.
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Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said on Wednesday it will withdraw from all elections unless the Zanu-PF government abides by electoral protocols ratified by the Southern African Development Community. The MDC has also withdrawn from the Harare City Council.