<strong>CD of the week</strong>: Cofield Mundi: Ceremony
Tamara Dey is an individual, and her music represents that as much as her fans applaud her and her role as an emissary of local music’s many faces. Jason Curtis lends an ear to her new album.
Bulldozers have begun removing layers of soil from a mass grave believed to contain several hundred victims of Bosnia’s war in the 1990s and which could be the largest ever found.
The rebel group besieging the Liberian capital Monrovia for the past week appears to have little political agenda beyond ousting President Charles Taylor, according to analysts.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has come up with a plan for workers to take control of the tripartite alliance and the African National Congress.
Or is it? As the Cabinet’s crucial pre-election lekgotla to assess delivery gets under way, Rapule Tabane takes the pulse of change in Ventersdorp.
State-sponsored political violence increased with 113 cases of torture, assault and other human rights violations recorded in June, according to a report released by Zimbabwe Human Rights on Monday.
The leaking of questions put to South African deputy President Jacob Zuma to the media by the elite investigation agency, the Scorpions, is evidence that a succession war has begun, says United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa.
The violent death rate in Africa is more than double the world average and ”substantially higher” than that of other parts of the world — such as Latin America and Eastern Europe — where violence is also a major public health issue.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and the Steel, Engineering Industry Federation of South Africa (Seifsa) will once again meet on Wednesday in last chance in-depth talks to avert a strike in the metal industry.