In an about turn a Malawian High Court on Thursday overturned a previous court ruling declaring unconstitutional a ban by President Bakili Muluzi on public protests over his third term in office.
South Africa is feeling quietly confident as it heads off to its World Cup Group B match against Slovenia.
The relatively unscathed passage through Cabinet of the proposals of Minister of Education Kader Asmal’s National Working Group on higher education opens up the most far-reaching restructuring of the sector since Hendrik Verwoerd’s initiatives in the 1950s and 1960s.
Not since Superman wore his on the outside was there so much debate about a man’s underwear (though South Africa later scooped the world by becoming the first country to have a pair of Y-fronts as its national flag). So why so little discussion of what men wear?
A United States envoy said Pakistan’s president assured him that he wants to do everything he can to avoid war with India. Richard Armitage also said the US military effort against al-Qaida has not been affected by the rising tension between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
South Africa’s giant public transport utility Transnet used millions of rands in taxpayers’ money to provide lavish accommodation for controversial former South African Airways (SAA) CEO Coleman Andrews. The utility spent about R5-million in 1998.
Communications Minister, Ivy Matesepe-Casaburri, tried to reassure critics on Friday that she had no intention of controlling electronic commerce in South Africa.
His team lost their first game in South Korea, but Bora Milutinovic can still lay a strong claim to being the most popular manager in the history of the World Cup. He is the only coach to have guided four nations to the second round of the tournament.
Shall I stay or shall I go? To be specific, shall I go to Australia? And should it be Sydney or Perth? What’s rent like, and house prices, salaries and medical care, and how much are the movies and eating out? What’s it really like to emigrate?
”Deep dissatisfaction” with Unisa’s management accounts for an ”abysmal” voter turnout in elections last year for two of the university’s most important bodies, suggests a report written by Dr Marie Heese, election officer and chair of the Electoral Commission.