UN officials threatened to halt food relief to Zimbabwe yesterday if President Mugabe’s government goes ahead with plans to take over control of the distribution of aid.
Early in March, intelligence agents searching the western deserts of Pakistan thought they had finally tracked down the world’s most wanted man. A convoy was spotted racing along one of the remote smugglers’ routes which winds down from southern Afghanistan, through the sand dunes of Pakistani Baluchistan and into Iran. American intelligence agents had a tip that Osama bin Laden was in the group.
A 40-year-old man was arrested in Sunnyside on Friday afternoon in connection with more than 50 fraud cases after he had been evading police for almost 10 years, Pretoria police said.
It is called a demobilisation centre but a better term for what takes place inside the corrugated tin classrooms of Mutobo may be genocide rehab. Nine years after the slaughter, Rwanda’s killers are coming home and this centre in Ruhengeri province in the north-west of the country is their first stop.
Allan Boesak, the liberation cleric and founder member of UDF, jailed for fraud and theft of donor money in 2000, did not qualify for a presidential pardon, according to the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Development.
Social workers are leaving the profession in droves, discouraged by low salaries and overwork as well as by poor — and often dangerous — working conditions. Minister of Social Development Zola Skweyiya has declared social work a ”scarce skill”.
Landmark legal action has pinpointed serious abuses of the legislative power provincial education departments wield over schools.
Old hat JM Coetzee, Barbara Trapido and Damon Galgut are among some local nominees on the esteemed Booker Prize longlist of 23 novels this year, writes John Ezard in London.
"How about a jazz radio station? Yeah, why not?" It’s a simplistic statement sure, but when it is expressed and discussed at the launch of the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz, be sure that it may not just be talk, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
"There’s been too much Missy Eliott and way too little Lebo Mathosa on my poor eardrums," types Thando Mkhize. Nadia Neophytou considers how the increased local content quota will benefit music.