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/ 27 January 2004
South Africa’s maize belt is again facing bleak rainfall prospects, due to a tropical low pressure cyclone in the Mozambique channel drawing moisture away from the country, South African Weather Service (Saws) forecaster Evert Scholtz said on Tuesday morning.
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/ 27 January 2004
The United States will consider a request from Libya to pay for dismantling its chemical and nuclear weapons programme, Congressman Curt Weldon said on Monday during a visit to Tripoli. Seven members of Congress arrived in Libya on Sunday for a goodwill visit.
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/ 27 January 2004
France is failing miserably to assimilate immigrants, a government commission said on Monday, painting what it called a ”morbid picture” of ghettos, soaring unemployment, inadequate education, sexual inequality and rising fundamentalism in a ”socially and professionally disadvantaged” community.
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/ 27 January 2004
The father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb and another member of his secretive team have emerged as the prime suspects in a government investigation into alleged sales of nuclear technology to Iran and Libya, intelligence officials said on Monday.
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/ 27 January 2004
Two-thirds of the Great Wall of China has been destroyed by sightseers, developers and erosion, Beijing’s media reported on Monday in a warning that the world heritage site is crumbling out of existence. Survey teams are said to have found large new breaches in the ramparts, which are believed to have once stretched almost 6 400km.
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/ 27 January 2004
The epidemic of bird flu in south-east Asia has spread to Pakistan, with senior officials revealing that the virus has killed millions of chickens in the port city of Karachi in recent weeks. A six-year-old Thai boy died of the disease in Bangkok on Monday, raising the epidemic’s confirmed human death toll to seven.
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/ 27 January 2004
As in Lewis Carroll’s <i>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland</i>, nothing is ever as it appears on the surface in what one journalistic wag has nicknamed "Mugabeland". This is Zimbabwe, the politically and economically tattered Southern African country President Robert Mugabe has straddled like a Colossus since independence in in 1980.
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/ 27 January 2004
The entry of a new low-fare airline, and the price war that has erupted between budget carriers, may lead to "someone getting hurt", John Morrison, CEO of the Airline Association of Southern Africa warned last week. Morrison’s comments came as a new airline, 1Time, started selling tickets for the Johannesburg to Cape Town route.
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/ 27 January 2004
Executive airline Sun Air will cap its first year under new ownership with a profit, a new investment partner and expansion plans. General manager Robalt Keselder confirmed that a European investor has bought into the airline, "but would not like to be identified at this stage".
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/ 27 January 2004
I would like to thank the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> for the attention it has given to the drought and to respond to issues raised in your recent editorial ("A water-stressed future"). In particular, I would like to respond to your statement that "what is politically blameworthy is the failure to provide for drought in a water-scarce country … "