South Africa celebrated a ”one-down-and-one-to-go” victory at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this week when Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma secured one of the five upper-tier seats on the African Peace and Security Council (APSC).
The African Union on Thursday launched a pan-African parliament with the mission of spreading democracy, prosperity and peace across the continent. A ceremony in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, inaugurated what is to be a 265-member assembly of the union’s 53 member states.
New Zealand were 48 for two at tea, chasing South Africa’s 296 on the second day of the second cricket Test in Auckland on Friday. South Africa’s captain Graeme Smith top scored in their innings with 88 while Chris Martin took six wickets for 76.
The Sharks return home in fine shape to push for the Super 12 rugby semifinals after beating the Hurricanes 21-20 in a hard-fought match at Yarrow Stadium, New Plymouth on Friday.
Several farmers have withdrawn from an empowerment programme, leaving it on the brink of disaster
The revelation that the second national operator has run into difficulties because of disagreements among shareholders is the latest depressing episode in a long-running saga. According to reports, Kennedy Memani, the chairperson of Nexus Connection, has accused shareholders Communitel and Two Consortium of holding the process to ransom.
I hate to claim that this column, after all, always gets things right. But on the other hand, no one else is acknowledging that fact as a fact. Someone has to do it. So, as Percy Sledge once said, let it be me. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, after a few days in the unexplainable limbo of Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic (once "Empire"), has indeed been flown back to the Caribbean.
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The talk of violence in KwaZulu-Natal would cease if the African National Congress took the province in the upcoming general election, President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday. He told the community of Mafunze, near Pietermaritzburg, they should vote for the ANC to free themselves of people who ”intimidate them with spears”.
A continental Parliament for the African Union (AU) was inaugurated at a ceremony in Addis Ababa on Thursday with the swearing-in of 180 members representing the 36 countries that have signed the protocol establishing the assembly.
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President Thabo Mbeki was turned away by a chief in rural KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday in a bid to avoid possible tension between supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National Congress. Mbeki was on his way to pay his respects to Chief Ngcobo in Mafunze when he was asked not visit the chief.