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The slogan on the side of the taxi-van told the world that its name was 2fast 2furious; the reggae was pumping, and the tout hung out of the sliding door hollering fares and destinations as the van lunged towards the kerb for a stop. The matatu is Nairobi’s answer to the transport problems but is also a death trap on wheels. New regulations seek to curb the horrifying number of related deaths.
For many subsistence farmers in the semi-arid regions of southern Africa, dependence on drought relief is tantamount to serving a death sentence. Many have been encouraged to expand their production of maize, which is the dominant cereal crop in the 14-member Southern Africa Development Community (SADC).
South African seam bowler Andre Nel, who has proved a constant thorn in the West Indian side, admitted on Sunday that there were times he thought he would not play Test cricket for his country again. Nel took a career best five for 87 to help dismiss the West Indies for 427 and go some distance in clinching the four match series.
President Thabo Mbeki is a man on a mission. He believes he can secure what he calls leadership renewal in Zimbabwe by June. But how effective will he be when, according to some soul-baring on the ANC Today website, he sees Mugabe as more sinned against than sinning — a victim of the very forces Mbeki blames for having thwarted his own diplomacy at Abuja?
The White House has retreated from its doctrine of regime change and pre-emptive military action and is returning to traditional diplomacy in an effort to repackage George Bush as a president for peace. The signs of a thaw in US relations with countries like North Korea and Iraq point to a different approach emerging in Washington.
Peggy Cidor concedes that she is not a radical feminist’s idea of a radical feminist.
All she seeks, for now at least, is to pray aloud at Judaism’s holiest site for a few hours a year. But a campaign by Cidor and dozens of other Jewish women for sexual equality at the Wailing Wall threatens to change the face of the Orthodox religious establishment in Israel.
Australia were left needing to conjure up a world record-breaking performance to give skipper Steve Waugh a winning send-off against India after the fourth day in the final cricket Test on Monday.
Former Springbok rugby captain Bob Skinstad is looking to play overseas in the forseeable future — for a while at least. After discussions with SA Rugby (Pty) Ltd, Skinstad emphasised that the break meant he could still consider plying his trade in South Africa at a later stage.
Rain halted play in the third cricket Test on Monday between South Africa and the West Indies with the hosts leading by 293 runs. When the players were forced from the field midway through the afternoon session on the third day at Newlands, Herschelle Gibbs and Jacques Kallis had steered South Africa to 188 for two.
Foreigners entering US airports and seaports from all but 28 nations will have their fingerprints scanned and their photographs taken this week as part of a new programme to tighten border security.