Nigeria is to invite Cameroon, with whom it has had a recent border spat, to join a group of west African nations bidding to stage the 2010 World Cup, officials said on Tuesday.
In certain circles it has become old-fashioned to talk about race and class as categories through which to make sense of the behaviour of people around the world in general, and in South Africa in particular.
Israeli online publication Ha’aretz.com reports that advisers to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have conceded that Sharon received ,5-million from a South African businessman, but denied any connection to criminal activity.
Ariel Sharon’s secret SA benefactor
This is what we know for sure: Apple computer chief executive Steve Jobs will walk onto the stage of the Moscone Centre, San Francisco this Tuesday afternoon. What happens beyond that is anyone’s guess — and almost everyone is having a guess.
The British and Israeli governments were engaged in a full-scale row yesterday after Ariel Sharon banned Palestinians from attending a peace conference in London next week.
Six municipal by-elections are to be held in South Africa on January 22, four in African National Congress strongholds, one in an Inkatha Freedom Party stronghold and another in a more marginal seat vacated by a Democratic Alliance councillor.
Anne Boher, a French journalist working for the Reuters news agency was briefly detained by Ivory Coast authorities and released without charge, Reuters said on Tuesday.
French police defended themselves on Tuesday over an incident in which they detained a television news crew from the west African state of Mali and erased part of their camera tape after being filmed manhandling two Malian illegal immigrants.
The 128 000 member Solidarity trade union has asked the US government and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to ban the listing of South African telecommunications utility Telkom on the NYSE.
Pledged financial aid from the international community started to pour in to the Middle East this week as Arab states brace for a US-led war on Iraq.