The United States and Britain offered conflicting predictions in the second week of March about the chances of winning a majority in the United Nations Security Council for a new resolution on Iraq.
Zimbabwe’s Zanu-PF-led government dismissed a seminar on Zimbabwe – that was organised by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa – as part of a “British-led campaign to isolate the country following a series of diplomatic successes by Harare”.
Shaun Pollock has been ”relieved” of the captaincy of the South Africa cricket team, the United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCB) announced on Saturday.
Those who doubted Kenya’s right to a place in the World Cup semi-finals might have been given pause for thought at Kingsmead last night as the east Africans gave mighty Australia a run for their money in the tournament’s last Super Six match.
New Zealand’s hopes of staying in the World Cup hang by the slenderest of threads after India won their Super Six clash by seven wickets at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Friday.
Those worst affected by Aids need much more than anti-retrovirals. If the money is available it should arguably be spent on extending social welfare, basic services and supporting subsistence agriculture as well as boosting prevention programmes if we really want to help those worst affected by HIV/Aids.
A collective sigh of relief was heard throughout South Africa on April 17 last year when the Cabinet at last acknowledged its programmes would be based on the premise that HIV causes Aids and promised to introduce a national treatment and prevention programme. But health providers throughout South Africa believe the government has failed to keep this promise.
A coalition of NGOs working in the area of violence against women and children has called on the government to recognise the scourge as a hindrance to development and to establish a special fund to fight it. The fund is to be located in the Department of Trade and Industry.
A Nigerian drug lord once offered Senior Superintendent Ernest Madzhie R1-million to look the other way; the cop stared him straight in the eyes, handcuffed him and escorted him to jail.
Former folk-rock singer Yusuf Islam, better known as Cat Stevens, arrived in Johannesburg on Friday to record a song with local artists which will be broadcast as part of the entertainment community’s efforts to stop the war in Iraq.