The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project and 18 other applicants on Thursday filed an application in the Johannesburg High Court challenging the laws that prevent two people of the same sex from entering into a legally recognised marriage. The Equality Project’s Wendy Isaacks said such acknowledgement is long overdue.
Ugandan insurgents killed more than 100 people while raiding villages in southern Sudan in late June, a church leader in the war-torn region said on Friday. Reverend Paul Yugusuk, the head of the region’s Anglican deaconry, said in Kampala that rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army had gone on a killing spree in the area.
The Department of Foreign Affairs on Friday released a statement objecting to a report in the Mail & Guardian saying that Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma backed Zimbabwean government moves to stifle an explosive report on human rights abuses in Zimbabwe at this week’s African Union summit.
How SA backed Zimbabwe lie
A multimillion-dollar project aimed at cutting pollution in the western Indian Ocean was launched in Madagascar this week, South Africa’s deputy minister of environment said on Friday. The three-year project is expected to help eight countries devise plans to curb pollutants entering the region’s rivers and coastal waters.
Two trade unions have rejected a guaranteed 5% pay hike offer by steel manufacturer Iscor, setting the stage for a strike. Solidarity and the United Association of South Africa said on Friday they have declared a dispute with Iscor. ”Any talk of industrial action is premature,” Iscor said.
The African National Congress is playing a ”cat and mouse” game with minority groups, and in the process making young people despondent, according to Freedom Front Plus labour spokesperson Willie Spies. The FF+ endeavours to free young people of the limitations of affirmative action.
Given recent economic developments, South Africa’s domestic growth prospects seem positive and in general most factors favour a containment of inflation within the target range, according to South African Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni. However, he had a word of caution about the rate of increase in CPIX.
Sami Shamlawi has turned out most days over the past month for the now ritual showdown with the bulldozer. On a good day, the 48-year-old school caretaker and hundreds of other Palestinians from al-Zawiya bring work on the cage under construction around their West Bank village to a halt.
Police will maintain a strong presence in Diepsloot following violent protests in the township earlier this week, police said on Friday. ”We will continue to keep a strong presence in the area. We are prepared for any eventuality that might occur,” said Pretoria police spokesperson Inspector Percy Morokane.
Here she is, this Nabakovian sun-child, crystal-cold Russian tanned to honey by a decade in the heat of American skin-worship, giggling as she lifts her trophy. Ten thousand Humbert Humberts, comparing over-earnest notes on her forehand, look at the girlish knees, the still-soft calves, hair the colour of a Ukrainian wheat-field, and endure the delicious torment of being old and ugly in the shadows as this new loveliness dawns over the tennis world.