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.
Landmark legal action has pinpointed serious abuses of the legislative power provincial education departments wield over schools.
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”.
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.
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.
Allister Sparks, a grandfather of South African journalism, has fired one of the first volleys in the 10-year assessment with <i>Beyond the Miracle</i>, the third in his series on South Africa, writes Ferial Haffajee.
An African celebration by one of South Africa’s most famous artists stands on the brink of destruction as hammers and drills await the word from developers bent on enlarging one of Johannesburg’s richest shopping centres, reports François Ebersöhn.