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The rest of Africa can learn much from South Africa’s election process, the visiting Southern African Development Community (SADC) Parliamentary Forum said on Thursday. ”We have observed nine elections throughout the SADC since 1999 and realised how much other countries can learn from South Africa,” said the mission leader.
Special Report: Elections 2004
The Pro20 cricket series launched this week is being punted as “cricket for a new generation”. All hope for the future is lost.
Corpses littered the streets of the Iraqi town of Fallujah on Thursday as United States marines met ferocious resistance in the Sunni Muslim bastion. Meanwhile, Polish and Bulgarian forces were attacked in Karbala and cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s headquarters were destroyed in Sadr City.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Now it is the turn of Colin Firth, playing a stubbled, romantic-looking Johannes Vermeer, in the speculative imagining of the 17th-century Dutch artist’s relationship with his unknown model, the film Girl with a Pearl Earring, to be captivated by the bloom of Scarlet Johansson’s untouched loveliness, writes Peter Bradshaw.
Anyone selling traditionally decorated eggs in the picturesque Polish city of Krakow this Easter will be breaking the law. A local World War II bylaw passed on March 28 1915 in Krakow forbids residents from decorating or selling the colourful eggs with their intricate traditional patterns known in Poland as pisanki.
Metropolitan, one of South Africa’s top four insurers, is currently enjoying a strong run of popularity among the investment community, reflected in both the performance of its share price, which has strongly outperformed the rest of the insurance sector so far in April, and rising trading volumes.
The messages sent out to South African youths by the government’s loveLife Aids prevention campaign are ”inadequate and dangerous”, says the African Christian Democratic Party. The campaign sends out mixed messages and causes passions to become ”inflamed by their explicit advertising with sexual images”, the ACDP said on Thursday.
Sixty-three people, 48 of them children, died from hunger last month in Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo, a health official was quoted as saying in a newspaper report on Friday.
Ghana-based mining firm Ashanti Goldfields on Thursday announced that its shareholders have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the group’s merger with South African-owned AngloGold.
As Malawi’s general elections draw closer, deepening national poverty is haunting efforts by the ruling United Democratic Front to remain in power. In March, a United Nations Development Programme study on governance in Malawi revealed that poverty in the country had worsened during the past decade of multi-party politics compared to the situation under former dictator Hastings Kamuzu Banda.