The Rwandan genocide may hold the sad record for the 20th century genocide with the most killers, but calculating exactly how many people were killed has proven to be a much more difficult task.
At least 18 people, including a soldier, were killed when Nigerian troops raided a town to quell a protest over ballot-rigging in last week’s local government election, a local reporter said on Tuesday. Some press reports, citing witnesses, put the death toll in Sunday’s clash as high as 30.
Of all the world’s great writers, Petrarch is the best known for losing his head. On Good Friday in 1327, the then 23-year-old writer and scholar fell madly — and forlornly — in love with a woman he saw in a church congregation.
The digital divide is growing rather than narrowing despite efforts to rectify the imbalance, said Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana in Pretoria on Tuesday. ”The information, communication and technology sector in our country reflects the skewed landscape of ownership, control and access to resources,” he said.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the Solidarity trade union pledged their support on Tuesday for the National Union of Mineworkers in its fight against Harmony Gold over the possible closure of at least six mine shafts. Harmony announced on Friday that it might have to close the shafts.
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HIV-positive women are less likely to get pregnant and more likely to have a miscarriage, according to a study conducted in Uganda.
The South African Human Rights Commission must protect the national organiser of the Landless People’s Movement (LPM), Mangaliso Kubheka, and retract its hate-speech finding against him, the LPM said on Tuesday. Kubheka was reported to have said that LPM members would ”take farms and chase away white farmers like dogs”.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>The Independent Democrats said it has whisked away seven Democratic Alliance members on the eve of elections, although the DA says the ID is guilty of "double-counting defections". Themba Sono, deputy leader of the ID, welcomed "senior registered members of the DA" at a media briefing in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
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Road accidents are the biggest cause of death in South Africa among children between the ages of four and 15, and a national plan of action is needed to combat this ”epidemic”, Western Cape provincial minister of health Piet Meyer said on Tuesday. He said on average two children die every day on the country’s roads.
In an effort to arrest worsening humanitarian conditions in Zimbabwe, the United Nations is seeking additional funds to support relief efforts through to the end of the year. The total of $95,4-million in funding requirements for 2003 to the end of 2004 includes $31,1-million requested by local and international NGOs.