A potential water crisis in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare was averted on Monday after the Reserve Bank announced that it would provide 000 for the purchase of water purifying chemicals.
DEPUTY PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma said plans were in place to help government hospitals distribute the antiretroviral drug nevirapine, SABC Radio news reported on Saturday.
”Vukovar looked like all the devils were running wild in it, a distant red-hot spot that was falling apart under thundering and shooting.”
A Nigerian woman will be able to give birth outside of prison and, along with her former lover, prepare an appeal against a sentence to death by stoning.
Police freed 46 captives — many of them chained and badly beaten — in raids on five ”torture centres” run by an increasingly feared Nigerian vigilante group.
The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project on Friday said it had expected that the Pretoria High Court would dismiss an application by lesbian couple Marie Fourie and Cecilia Bonthuys for same sex marriages to be legalised, recognised and registered.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak were due to hold talks Wednesday in Amman on the Middle East crisis, as Israel reoccupied Palestinian land following a bloody bomb attack.
South Africa’s Minister of Defence has offered the Kissama Foundation of Angola the services of the South African Navy to transport about 200 elephants to Angola’s national parks to replace those killed by poachers during the civil war.
The Irish rock star and the American treasury secretary joked and argued their way across Africa for 12 days, raising awareness of the problems faced by the world’s poorest continent.
President Thabo Mbeki made a strong call on Friday night for all South Africans to embrace transformation.