Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, will spend his third week during a private visit to Africa building fences and planting trees at a rural orphanage in the small mountain kingdom of Lesotho, a royal spokesperson said on Wednesday.
The Constitutional Court began hearings on Tuesday into three cases challenging the customary law of inheritance. There were many frowns in evidence as advocates thrashed out the issues which could affect the lives of thousands of women and children living under customary law.
First was Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. ”But what’s wrong with registering journalists?” was the bottom line of her message. Then came Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Penuell Maduna. The gist of his theme: ”Why assume that registration of the media is necessarily bad?” Their mantra has been making many media people angry, because it whitewashes Zimbabwe’s repression of the press via registration.
STMicroelectronics, Europe’s largest chipmaker, announced last week that it will spend $100-million on two design centres in India to cash in on the country’s large, cheap but highly educated workforce.
The domestic airline Sun Air, operating between Johannesburg and Cape Town, was liquidated on Tuesday and all flights have been cancelled until further notice, the managing director said. Rowald Kresfelder said the airline was liquidated at 5pm after suffering losses and developing a cash flow problem during the past four months.
More than a year ago, Volvo Car Corp. gave women employees a special project: design the car they would like to drive. The result — a roomy, 215-horsepower coupe — makes a statement about what women want. Simply put, they want more.
David Kay, the man who led the CIA’s postwar effort to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, has called on the Bush administration to ”come clean with the American people” and admit it was wrong about the existence of the weapons.
Senator John Kerry drove his last rival, John Edwards, out of the battle to secure the Democratic nomination to challenge George Bush in November’s presidential election, with a string of victories, according to early exit polls, in Super Tuesday primaries.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sitting in his car on the tarmac at Port-au-Prince airport early on Sunday morning waiting for the plane to take him to exile when the United States diplomat Luis Moreno tapped on his window. ”Mr President, with all due respect, the plane is 20 minutes away, I really need the letter,” Moreno said, meaning Aristide’s letter of resignation.
Still no Aristide asylum request
Iraq on Tuesday suffered its worst day of violence since the war’s end, when its majority Shia community was targeted in a series of sophisticated and simultaneous attacks that killed as many as 223 people and left its religious leaders blaming the Americans for multiple security failures.
‘Today war has been launched on Islam’