Kenyan women, who claim they were raped by British soldiers in a period spanning 30 years demonstrated on Thursday in the streets of Nairobi, urging the British government to pay for the cost of raising their mixed-race children.
Libya has agreed to pay ,7-billion in compensation to families of victims of the Lockerbie bombing, family lawyers said on Thursday.
A number of criminal incidents occurring at Technikon Witwatersrand residences was the reason behind its decision to ban visitors in students’ rooms, the institution said on Thursday. Thousands of students took to the streets on Wednesday to protest against the new regulation.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=19025">Hundreds of students hauled into court</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=19015">Wits students ordered to leave hostels</a>
US President George Bush said on Wednesday that his priority was to send aid to Liberia, not to seek extradition of its former president Charles Taylor. US troops have also arrived Monrovia and will help peacekeepers get food and supplies into the war-battered city.
Gold stocks glistered on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa just before noon on Thursday, leading the upside of the overall index. Heavyweights Anglo American and BHP Billiton led the downside, after being dragged into the red by profit-taking and a stronger rand.
Former Transport Minister Mac Maharaj’s decision to resign from his directorship with FirstRand was the right thing to do, said the Democratic Alliance in a statement on Thursday.
Zambia’s parliament voted against opposition attempts to impeach President Levy Mwanawasa over allegations of violating the constitution and ”gross misconduct”.
Idasa political analyst Richard Calland has told a public radio debate on political party funding that part of the revelations concerning South Africa’s arms deal indicated that interested parties made donations to the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
Microsoft has stolen a march on rival Apple by signing a deal with a digital music company backed by singer Peter Gabriel to launch the first internet download service in Europe to sell individual tracks.
It was supposed to symbolise liberation and celestial reverence in an independent Jamaica. Two naked 7ft-high bronze figures — a male and a female — looking skywards on a dome-shaped fountain embossed with Bob Marley’s lyrics ”None but ourselves can free our minds”.