A group of 54 Indian jewellers will be deported after a year-long stay during which they were unpaid and often unfed. They are the last of a group of 110 left penniless for almost a year after being recruited from their home country with promises of jobs with a state-funded beneficiation project.
A s statements go, wearing skimpy clothes is generally considered to be one of the more straightforward. A miniskirt and plunging neckline will be met with catcalls, not wardrobe deconstruction. The message, received loud and clear, is sex.
When the government created the position of public protector, Oom Krisjan had all these wonderful mental images of a brave warrior brandishing his spear at miscreants, in courageous defence of the Constition. But as time went by the manne at the Dorsbult became a little concerned.
England moved this week to repair the damage to their bid to host the 2007 World Cup after Australia revealed that they were in talks with England and South Africa to stage an annual Tri- series at Twickenham from 2004.
Washington this week revealed its intention to use United Nations weapons inspections as a possible first step towards a military occupation of Iraq by sending in troops, sealing off ”exclusion zones” and creating secure corridors throughout the country.
Illegal sales: Aids drugs supplied to Africa at cut rates have been illegally resold in Europe, threatening to undermine a system of preferential medicine pricing for poor countries, GlaxoSmithKline said on Thursday.
In a new twist to the Myanmar (formerly Burma) embassy child sex scandal, information has emerged that the 15-year-old Asian girl at the centre of the saga was brought into the country as a ”domestic worker” for the Myanmar ambassador, U Tin Latt.
South Africa’s highest court has ruled that elected politicians at all three levels of government may defect to another party without losing their seats.
Everyone and his Aunt Nellie has a theory as to why South Africa offered their flabby underbelly to India in Sri Lanka last week. National coach Eric Simons may have come as close as any when he pondered whether the capitulation could be put down to factors ”other than cricketing reasons”.