If you didn’t pluck up the courage to propose to him on February 29, why not book a romantic vacation and pop the question later in the year? Here are the top places to bend your knee. From Prague and Las Vegas to Cape Town and Cyprus, Liz Bird hunts far and wide for the world’s top romantic getaways.
Angola’s ruling party on Thursday unveiled 14 preconditions for upcoming presidential and general elections, saying these had to be fulfilled before any ballot was held in the war-scarred country. ”We have to first fulfil these conditions and then prepare for the elections,” a party spokesperson said.
Minister of Public Enterprises Jeff Radebe handed over R100 to South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) leaders in a symbolic gesture of solidarity in Pretoria on Friday, after being asked to intervene in the baggage-handling strike involving private black empowerment company Equity Aviation Services.
The blasts in Spain that killed nearly 200 people could illustrate a trend towards "spectacular" attacks, with terrorist groups adopting tactics proven to cause mass casualties, British experts said on Friday.
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<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=32603">The war moves to Europe</a>
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"Number Four has always been a part of black life in Johannesburg. As children, many of us knew a brother, an uncle or even a father who had been inside. It was also common for us to witness cleansing rituals for people who came back from the prison." Steve Kwena Mokwena unlocks a door to SA’s shady past at an Old Fort prison complex exhibition.
"If Israel can boast of anything in the human rights arena, it is its treatment of lesbians and gays, whose activities were decriminalised in 1988." Israeli culture subsists on the theme of passion in a time of war, writes Matthew Krouse.
Dizu Plaatjies just got a new spring in his step. With a solo album released late last year, and a blow-away performance at the Oude Libertas auditorium last weekend, Plaatjies has been reinstated on the musical map, writes Fidel Mbhele.
Developing countries — the main clients of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank — should have more say in the policy of those institutions. This was an opinion widely expressed on Friday at a meeting in Johannesburg of governors of African central banks and other finance officials.
After opening sharply weaker on the back of world markets, the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was in the black in noon trade on Friday as bargain hunters sought out resources stocks, which were looking cheap after six days of losses. Financials and industrials remained in the red, however.