As in the old apartheid days, police will escort the luxury buses that transport MPs from their parliamentary villages to work. That’s if proposals by the joint committee on members’ support are approved.
One of the first English signs one encounters on arrival at Yaounde airport in Cameroon reads: "Persons making inappropriate comments concerning hijacking, carriage of weapons or explosives or pose [sic] a threat against [sic] air transport will be prosecuted. Penalty: life imprisonment."
Twenty-one people were feared dead on Saturday after the explosion of a rocket at Brazil’s Alcantara Space Center, officials said.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma will not be prosecuted for anything related to South Africa’s multi-million rand arms procurement deal, Public Prosecutions head Bulelani Ngcuka said on Saturday.
Israeli and Palestinian officials, bracing for a new escalation in violence, looked Saturday to the United States to salvage a peace plan left in tatters by the collapse of a shaky truce.
The department of environment affairs says it has demanded ”as a matter or urgency” that the owners of the stricken Sealand Express come up with a plan to remove its cargo.
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.
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.
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.
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.