The Egyptian charter airline whose Boeing 737 crashed on Saturday killing all 148 people on board, including 133 French tourists, has been banned from flying to one European country for more than a year because of safety concerns, it emerged on Sunday.
Luxury lodges earn millions of dollars each year from foreign tourists looking for an exclusive African getaway. The tourism industry is growing into a juggernaut of the South African economy. Yolandi Groenewald takes a look at some of them that are spreading the benefits of tourism beyond their own bulging pockets.
"Seeing as it’s just after the media atrocity known as ‘Christmas’ I thought it’d be useful to find out a bit more about this Jesus person who keeps being mentioned on boring TV shows. Luckily this Jesus guy has his own homepage." And for those of you in need of the ultimate hangover cure, Ian Fraser has just the tonic.
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.