The price of fuel in Zimbabwe went up by more than 500 percent on Wednesday as the government announced a deregulation of the petroleum oil industry.
Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, is building a lavish palace costing R43-million (£3,75-million, ,8-million) on the outskirts of the capital, Harare. Furnishings and security are expected to send the cost to more than R69-million (£6-million, ,4-million) at a time when nearly half of Zimbabwe’s population is dependent on international food aid.
Fuel price up by 500%
Harrowing transcripts of emergency calls made from the World Trade Centre during the terrorist attacks will be released under court order today, revealing the last words of people trapped inside after the towers were hit and before they collapsed.
An eleventh hour deal to provide cut-price drugs for the world’s poorest people was being finalised in Geneva last night in an effort to save next month’s trade summit in Cancun, Mexico, from collapse.
The three-week pursuit of a Uruguayan boat accused of poaching nearly £1m worth of rare fish from the Antarctic ended last night as Australian and South African officials boarded the vessel and arrested its crew.
Media diversity and its inherent role in ensuring the right to freedom of expression stands a better chance of surviving in South Africa than in the United States, according to <i>The Media’s</i>’s Kevin Bloom.
Mbeki reasons that capital has no soul. However, a requirement to convert the majority of the population into the mainstream of workers and spenders must include someone with a soul to make this transition to the new mainstream possible. In this endeavour I have first-hand experience, writes David Webber.
Despite more developing member countries having become more informed and proactive on the organisation’s thoroughly undemocratic functioning and biased agreements, the WTO remains a virtual battlefield.
Another country exists out there in the townships of Limpopo, as Sharon van Wyk discovered. And thanks to tour guide James Ndhlovu, she feels she has finally discovered the country she is living in.
The Border Bulldogs rugby team, who play the Leopards in Potchefstroom on Friday in a Currie Cup first Division match, have been hard hit by injury.