A severe shortage of Zimbabwean banknotes has led to riots in Harare as people have shattered banks’ plate glass windows and desperate workers, including police and army troops, have camped outside banks to wait for deliveries.
A Malawian journalist has been sacked from an Islamic radio station for broadcasting an interview with wives of five alleged al-Qaeda members deported last month from the southern African country under US orders, a radio official said on Thursday.
The world cannot just watch as west Africa falls apart, the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, said last week.
It’s a special offer for this month only: a race-based bonus in the name of integration, diversity and the good Lord himself. A church in Louisiana will pay white people to attend its services, offering per hour for those who attend its Sunday services and for anyone who comes on Thursday.
On Sunday, April 6, at the Al Kindi hospital in downton Baghdad, Samia Nakhoul stumbled across the most horrific thing she had ever seen. In the last, chaotic days of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Nakhoul, the Gulf bureau chief of Reuters, had taken to touring the hospitals daily to monitor the casualties from the blitzkrieg of American bombing that was battering the Iraqi capital.
Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s inspiring announcement last week about a herbal remedy for Aids-related diseases was yet further proof of our health department’s imaginative approach to crisis.
From the moment Graeme Smith won the toss at Edgbaston, he defied a recent spate of Test-match results at this venue by batting first. In recent times, the teams batting here first have lost.
South Africa went on trial this week: a trial of conscience, integrity and commitment to the values enshrined in our republic’s founding document. It is time for the nation to ask what our attitude to malfeasance is.
Analysts cautiously welcomed the Randgold & Exploration Company’s black empowerment foray this week, saying the novel asset-swap element in its R235-million deal with consortium Phikoloso Mining was a positive development.
The spectre of falling inflation has prompted growing demands for further interest rate cuts. But some experts have warned that higher wage settlements and buoyant credit demand may delay such a decision by the Reserve Bank.