Zimbabwe Cricket Union (ZCU) chief executive Vincent Hogg has resigned. Hogg has notified ZCU chairperson Peter Chingoka and the 12-man board of directors of his decision and will quit his functions after the ZCU annual meeting scheduled for August 8.
The June 30 deadline for banks to verify the identities of all their clients was deferred on Thursday to an array of new cut-off points starting on December 31. By May 31 next year, banks would have had to verify the details of at least 50% of their clients, Manuel said.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu did not cancel a trip to Alabama in the US because of a personal emergency, as claimed by the organiser of a fund-raising event the Nobel laureate was to attend, says Tutu’s assistant. The assistant would not discuss the circumstances of the archbishop’s decision not to attend the fund-raiser.
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon accused the ruling party of seeking control of ”all levers of power” and pursuing a ”narrow racial nationalism” in his Youth Day speech in Soshanguve. He said the ANC was concentrating power in the hands of a few ANC party bosses, regardless of whether it was ”in pursuit of noble aims”.
UN agencies, whose work benefit an estimated 50-million people worldwide, need ,25-billion until the end of 2004 to implement their programmes. The UN reports the increased funding is essential for effective response to millions of people affected by 25 crises in Africa, Europe and Asia.
Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge on Wednesday denied that Zimbabwe was snubbing a top UN official on a food assessment mission who was scheduled to meet with government ministers this week. Mudenge told journalist at a press conference, ”You all read big things into small things.”
A deceased tribal chief was among 47 diplomats, activists, trade unionists and other people honoured in Pretoria for their contribution to South Africa’s well-being. There were big names at the national orders investiture ceremony, but the loudest cheers were reserved for the long dead chief Frans Rasimphi Tshivhase.
Ten years after Rwandan Hutu extremists massacred their country’s Tutsi minority, ethnic Tutsis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have claimed they are the target of a new genocide and threatened Kinshasa with war if nothing is done about it.
Legal and financial constraints are preventing millions of black South African township residents from capitalising on their properties, a new study has found. Research has indicated that homes in black townships are worth an estimated R68,3-billion, but the use of residential property to create wealth remains limited.
Three Pakistanis and a Singaporean were charged in a Malaysian court on Wednesday with abducting a South African diplomat. Deputy High Commissioner Nicky Scholtz reported that he was forced into a car as he walked along a Kuala Lumpur street, robbed and held prisoner for several days before being freed.