Six executive members of the Umtata-based Uncedo Taxi Association were sentenced to seven life terms each in the Umtata High Court on Monday for the murder of six members of a rival taxi association and a truck driver.
A total of 115 people were killed when an airliner of the national flag-carrier Sudan Airways crashed in eastern Sudan early on Tuesday, state-owned Radio Omdurman reported.
A US motorist drove home with the legless body of a pedestrian in his front windshield before calling authorities to report that he had struck the man with his car, officials said.
President Charles Taylor said he is ready to step down ”in a jiffy” — but only after an international stabilisation force arrives to ensure an orderly transition in this war-divided country.
African trade ministers warned trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt yesterday that the price of a successful conclusion to the new round of global trade talks will be further cuts to Europe’s farm subsidies.
The war on global poverty is a sweetener to help rich nations’ bad medicine go down.
Some criticism of the Broad-Based Economic Empowerment Bill would be accommodated, but the law’s "basic architecture" would remain intact, a senior government official said last week.
A debate about the "sugar daddy" concept is raging in Namibia after a 17-year-old schoolgirl killed herself over a love affair with the number two officer in the Namibian police.
India and China will challenge the West’s control over global trade rules with a united front at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Cancun this September.
Things American may not be the flavour of the month in France right now, and motor-mouthed Texans least of all, but in one far-flung corner of old Europe a small-time farmer bucks the trend. Except that this is no ordinary paysan, and he is not thinking of George W Bush.