Portugal’s reputation as one of the sleepiest nations of Europe is something to be proud of, according to a pressure group intent on saving the country’s traditional, but threatened, after-lunch siesta.
Africa had bitten off as much aid as it could chew with the development package the G8 industrialised nations had agreed to fund, President Thabo Mbeki said on Tuesday.
The conflict in Iraq has left lasting rancour, with anti-American sentiment widespread and at an all-time high in the Muslim world, a global research project released yesterday said.
If there was justice in this world (which there ain’t), Happy Sindane’s story would have been immortalised on the silver screen before many more moons had passed.
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I remember the hot expression in primary school was "tazz" — as in "that’s a tazz bonie you’re <i>trapping</i>, my china!", which meant the bicycle your friend was peddling possessed an innate desirability.
The Zimbabwean situation focuses a harsh spotlight on the credibility of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development’s (Nepad) peer review mechanism, and tough questions are sure to be raised at the G8 summit in Evian which started on June 1.
Unemployment now stands officially at 30,5% — almost double the rate eight years ago. The result is deepening inequality, poverty and social conflict.
Long mistrusted and branded as unpredictable, the online publishing arena has always struggled to gain the same credibility as print publications in the minds of media planners.