About 1,4-millions Kenyans are short of food, especially in regions affected by prolonged drought, and will require about 85 000 to 90 000 tonnes of aid rations for six months beginning in August, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday.
Every year around 30 000 children are born with HIV/Aids in Mozambique. More than 50% of them die within the first year and the rest usually do not survive their second year. But hope is in sight for Mozambique’s HIV-afflicted children in the form of a new day clinic.
CareerJunction, an online recruitment service in South Africa, has teamed up with Tiscali UK and i2i Services to provide a job listing board for the United Kingdom market, making it one of the largest job boards in the UK.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe admitted for the first time this week that members of his family had been affected by HIV/Aids. Mugabe told a conference on Aids that unnamed members of his family had become ill from the disease. Describing HIV/Aids as ”one of the greatest challenges facing our nation”, he said, ”and that includes the extended family of the president himself”.
When, as part of a study on men’s practices, grade seven boys of a remote rural area of Nkomazi in Mpumulanga were invited to keep journals, they responded with enthusiasm. One is the journal of 14-year-old Boas, a boy subjected to deliberate neglect and brutal attacks by his father, in a context where domestic violence and rape are endemic.
Cheating normally benefits from conditions of extreme secrecy. The fewer people who know about your dirty dealing, the better your chances of success. So when you’re out there in the middle of the field with the whistle between your lips and 60 000 fanatical fans ruthlessly scrutinising your every move, surely it can’t be easy to pull a fast one? On the contrary. Here is how it is done …
Hijacker and murderer William Kekana could have been stopped in his tracks six years ago if police had bothered to perform basic forensic work during his arrest, his policeman father believes. Kekana (20) was sentenced to life imprisonment and 35 years by the Pretoria High Court two weeks ago after being convicted of hijacking and killing Jacobus Geldenhuys.
A case against a suspected serial rapist exposes multiple system failures, including alleged police corruption.
The June 30 deadline for banks to verify the identities of their clients was deferred on Thursday to an array of new cut-off points starting on December 31. Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said banks would have to confirm the identities of their highest risk customers by the end of the year and banks would themselves determine the profile of this group.
A judge sentenced a South African man to 12 months in prison on Thursday for attempting to smuggle cocaine out of Suriname last year. Abraham Nkosi (37) from Cape Town, was arrested in December after he brought two computers to a courier company for shipment to Ireland, authorities said. Police said they found 2,3kg of cocaine hidden in the computers.