Train services on Zimbabwe’s busiest railway line have been closed for the past three days after illegal gold miners in central Zimbabwe dug large tunnels underneath and right next to the railway line, railway authorities said on Friday.
South African economic policy makers will be faced with a dilemma over interest rates in 2003 — whether to lower them as quickly as possible to support economic growth or to cut them more slowly to maintain capital inflows to support the rand.
The South African government has confirmed that it has received a request to assist in an investigation into alleged irregular funding by a South African citizen of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s election campaign.
Computer vendor Beachware Computers CC has been ordered by the Durban magistrate’s court to pay the Microsoft Corporation R243 620 in damages after Microsoft filed claims against the vendor during the middle of last year for infringing copyright laws.
Zambia’s founding president Kenneth Kaunda hit out on Wednesday at ”globalisation with slave trade”, accusing western financial institutions of exploiting Africa.
While the road death toll since December 1 mounted to 1 236 by Monday, the Democratic Alliance demanded the resignation of Transport Minister Dullah Omar, or his removal from office.
The government authorities in Ivory Coast have arrested a French journalist working for the Reuters news agency, accusing her of spying for rebels in the west African state, official Ivory Coast radio said on Tuesday.
A female activist in Indonesia’s Aceh province was on Tuesday sentenced to six months in prison for defaming President Megawati Sukarnoputri at a rally last year.
I have started smoking about seven times. The best one was the last. It always is. Practice makes perfect, so you have a more textured awareness of what is unfolding. There’s the moment of fatal nostalgia, the decision, the dizzy embrace and, between 10 and 15 minutes later, the desire to repeat.
When the crude, animal-polluted ponds in the central Ethiopian village of Deyata Dodota used to run dry — as they always did for six months of the year — the women would set out at 4am on a long, back-breaking journey. They’d trek 20km to the nearest water source.