South Africa’s Western Cape wheat growing area, the Swartland, experienced 10% of its normal rainfall in June and if rainfall in July similarly is low the probability of wheat crop failure in the area is very high, grain broker Commodity Trading House said on Wednesday.
US President George Bush has demanded that Liberian President Charles Taylor leave the war-ravaged west African nation, as he neared a decision on sending US peacekeeping troops there.
Is there no limit to the mindless incredulity of modern movie audiences? That seemed to be the question on the minds of many movie critics on Wednesday when Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines opened in US cinemas with high hopes of becoming the biggest hit of the summer.
The pharmacy clerk pulls a box of skin lightening cream from a glass cabinet, places it on the counter, and says it’s obvious why he sells so much of it.
It’s Thursday evening, in a stuffy conference room at the Harvard law school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and weblogging champion Dave Winer is holding court.
The South African courts and the Truth and Reconciliation process largely failed to unravel the whole truth around apartheid atrocities, and this left people angry and disquieted, Cape High Court Judge Dennis Davis said on Wednesday.
BAE Systems plc did not give former South African defence minister Joe Modise two motor vehicles, and funding of the Umkhonto we Sizwe Veterans’ Association was all above board, a representative for the company said on Wednesday night.
Arms ‘agent’ denies graft charge
East London might be small, but has a lot of bluster. The city was officially named South Africa’s least calm city on Wednesday, as it always has wind blowing even if its residents cannot feel it.
The Israeli government has confiscated hundreds of acres of Palestinian land on the West Bank this week — for the purpose, Palestinians allege, of building settlements — in flagrant breach of commitments under the US-led road map to peace.
World Bank projects costing hundreds of millions of pounds and aimed at cutting malnutrition among children in developing countries have completely failed to make any difference, according to a report published today.