Fly-fishing as a valuable attraction and national asset is not yet being exploited by South Africa. This country’s game parks, mountain resorts and beaches are among the best in the world. Our fly-fishing waters, too, promise a memorable
experience for the foreign tourist.
Stanley Mogoba, president of the Pan Africanist Congress, has dissolved the Limpopo provincial executive committee (PEC), the power base of provincial chairperson Maxwell Nemadzhivhanani, his main rival for the party’s presidency.
Every day since he was secretly spirited into Iraq by the United States military, Ahmad Chalabi, the man favoured by the Pentagon to succeed Saddam Hussein, has been holding court with local dignitaries in Nassiriya. But allegations of financial impropriety linger over Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress, the most important of which concern a -million banking scandal in Jordan.
Investing in sustainable energy sources is becoming increasingly crucial to ensure a better future for all on Earth, says Richard Worthington, Earthlife Africa’s project coordinator for the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Partnership.
The Eastern Cape education department is losing R5,3-million a day because of teacher absenteeism alone, says education MEC Nomsa Jajula.
South African transport parastatal Transnet on Wednesday awarded a R2,4-billion fuel contract to seven black empowerment oil companies.
Eight municipal by-elections take place on Wednesday May 7 which will test the mettle of South Africa’s three major political parties — the African National Congress (ANC), the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).
In a society where an estimated 2,1-million people out of a population of 29-million already have HIV, Kenyan school children are tackling Aids head on. They need to — they have already lost their parents to the disease.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon are due to meet on Wednesday for talks likely to be dominated by Zimbabwe.