According to a recent survey, 80% of Zimbabwe’s doctors, nurses and therapists who gained their qualifications since independence in 1980 have gone to work abroad, primarily in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US.
Former British colony Somaliland is seeking recognition as an entity free from its paralysed southern neighbour, Somalia. Somaliland stands accused by the AU of the cardinal sin of secession.
A lacklustre Kaizer Chiefs crashed out of the SAA Supa 8 Cup on Sunday when they were beaten 2-1 by Wits University in a tense quarter-final clash played in front of 20 000 fans at Orkney’s Oppenheimer stadium.
Kim Clijsters has dethroned Serena Williams for the world number-one tennis ranking, which could signal an attack on the power tennis of the William sisters by Belgium’s tennis stars.
David Beckham may have yet to pull on the famous white shirt in a competitive match, but after four friendlies on his new club’s Asian tour he is already seen as a fixture in Real Madrid’s star-studded side.
Soft drinks sold in India by Coca-Cola and rival Pepsi have ”dangerously high” levels of pesticides, an independent environment watchdog said Tuesday — a claim vehemently denied by the US beverage giants.
The Scorpions are investigating the circumstances in which a government tender committee recommended awarding a R3,5-million contract to a company co-owned by the then head of the government department that put out the tender.
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Taylor’s 14-year career as one of Africa’s big men is due to end at 11.59am tomorrow, when he bows to his enemies and cedes power. He plans to address the nation today, but there is no electricity and, in any case, most televisions and radios are destroyed or looted.
Clutching her daughter’s photograph to her breast, Rebecca throws back her head and wails. Fighters burst into her home and raped the 10-year-old girl before the helpless mother, leaving the child lying in a pool of blood and vomit — dead.