Ariel Sharon has told his cabinet that he plans to extend the ”security fence” Israeli is building along the length of the West Bank so that it entirely encircles any Palestinian state.
Banking group FirstRand (FSR) confirmed on Monday it has appointed a leading firm of attorneys, Hofmeyr, Herbstein & Gihwala Inc, to conduct an independent inquiry into recent allegations made against one of its directors, former Transport Minister
Mac Maharaj.
Connie Molusi has been appointed the new group CEO of Johnnic Communications (Johncom, JCM) with immediate effect it was announced on Monday.
Rape is being used as a political weapon by the youth militia and other groups allied to Zimbabwe’s ruling party, according to human rights workers and church groups. Investigations by the Guardian reveal allegations of politically motivated rape against opposition supporters.
Were it not for the scientific shenanigans of Nobel Prize winners Francis Crick and James Watson, Rosalind Franklin might well be commemorated today as the discoverer of DNA.
The Cold War and the seven decades of the Soviet Union live now only in the history books. Or at least that’s how it looks. In fact, the reverberations of that place and time rumble on even now. Fifty years after his death, Joseph Stalin is still a presence in our world.
The most direct threat to animals in the Great Lakes region is poaching for bush meat. Arthur Mugisha, executive director of the Uganda Wildlife Authority, says: ”The biggest threat to conservation in this region is human expansion. We are talking here about small countries where populations are increasing and people urgently need land and food.”
Many Zimbabweans feel betrayed by South Africa’s response to the crisis in their country. A group of about 50 leading Zimbabwean human rights and democracy activists heard a representative of the government speak with impeccable clarity about South Africa’s approach to its northern neighbour at a conference facilitated by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa.
About half the country’s adults have less than nine years of schooling, and three million no education at all. But there has been “no significant progress in adult literacy since the end of the apartheid era”and adult basic education receives less than 1% of the education budget.
Soweto golf will take centre stage this weekend when two of the township’s rising young stars tee it up in President Thabo Mbeki’s Presidential Golf Classic at the lavish Woodhill Country Club in Pretoria.