”I trust that God almighty will free my wife from the yoke of slavery,” says Cheikhna Ould Beilil, a middle-aged Mauritanian man, fighting back the tears. Ould Beilil’s story constitutes rare testimony to the continued practice of slavery in the northwest African Islamic republic, despite claims by President Maaouya Ould Taya’s government that it has all but been wiped out.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>The next government needs to put more money into further education, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. Visiting Tshwane North College’s Mamelodi campus outside Pretoria, Mbeki braved the driving rain to meet the staff and students as part of the African National Congress’s election campaign.
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The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was up marginally just before noon on Friday in a market that lacked major drivers. Volumes were extremely light as players awaited the release of United States jobs data at 3.30pm, with dealers saying that a better-than-expected report could spark buying interest on global bourses.
McDonald’s is already well on the way to phasing out the few ”super size” menu items that it offers in Europe, a regional spokesperson for the United States fast-food chain said on Thursday. ”In most of Europe, there aren’t portions of that size,” McDonald’s Europe spokesperson Mike Love said in London.
As Lyndsay Williams trudged along snow-covered paths and passed by shop windows one recent day in Cambridge, England, so too did her SenseCam — automatically snapping hundreds of photos along the way. Later that day, Williams could have used those pictures to figure out where she’d left her car keys, or to show a friend the sweater she saw in a window.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma ‘s prospects may hinge on the election in KwaZulu-Natal.
After exhausting the land reform programme theme as a vote-catching gimmick, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has embarked on an anti-corruption crackdown as yet another ploy ahead of next year’s parliamentary election.
There is a still moment near the end of Gillian Slovo’s 1997 family memoir when, in the cold of 5am, just after her father has died, Nelson Mandela says exactly the right thing. Slovo’s parents had been part of the fight against apartheid since the early 50s.
Two days after his coronation as the Democratic party’s presidential nominee, John Kerry faced up to a hard truth on Thursday: George Bush has a -million head start in the election campaign fundraising race. While Bush has -million in hand, Senator Kerry enters the presidential race with his reserves depleted by his party’s primary contest.
Twelve Russian scientists were stranded on a disintegrating free-floating icepack near the North Pole on Thursday night with dwindling power and food supplies, after 90% of their research base was destroyed when the icepack it was built upon began to fragment and sink.