Scientists want to spend more than £12-million (R144-million) in a 10-year programme to explore life’s last great mysterious domain — the treetops.
They call him God’s architect, though he is renowned for leaving his most important creation less than half finished.
The enactments of troubling incidents, such as necklace murders, that are beginning to emerge around South Africa are perhaps a cathartic way of putting into action the struggle to find language that expresses the frustrations, helplessness, disempowerment and dire poverty of people whose lives have become meaningless.
As United States President George W Bush soars away from our country, one has to wonder whether he will really know more about the African continent at the end of his safari than he did at the start.
The black economic empowerment (BEE charter) for the country’s financial sector is expected to be finalised before the end of September.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) soccer clubs St Lupopo and TP Mazembe came, saw, but could not conquer last week when the Kudu Horn trophy returned to Kaizer Chiefs in the Vodacom Challenge.
The candidate hoping to become Africa’s first woman president is not worried about her big-name rivals.
Analysts in Nairobi suspect that United States President George W Bush left Kenya out of his five-day African tour as a way of punishing the East African nation for its failure to support the US-led war against Iraq.
World Bank projects costing hundreds of millions of dollars and aimed at cutting malnutrition among children in developing countries have completely failed to make a difference, according to a report published last week.
The widening gulf between the global haves and have-nots was starkly revealed this week when the United Nations announced that while the United States was booming in the 1990s, living standards fell in more than 50 countries.