US Secretary of State Colin Powell is to travel to several countries in Africa this month before heading to a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Hungary. Powell is expected to depart Washington for Mali, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and possibly Malawi on May 22. – AFP
AT least 42 people were killed on Friday and Saturday in heavy fighting between government troops and militia opponents battling for control of the port in the Somali capital Mogadishu, residents said. The fighting, the most intense in the city in months, pitted soldiers of the Transitional National Government of President Abdiqassim Salad Hassan against […]
STRIKING workers at the Lilongwe Water Board, the only water supplier in Malawi’s capital, have turned off the taps to demand a 100% pay hike and better working conditions, workers said on Friday. “We are not re-connecting the water until our demands are met,” one worker said, on condition of anonymity. Employees at the parastatal […]
A SOUTH Korean court on Friday ordered the liquidation of the ailing Dong-Ah Engineering and Construction Company, a lead contractor for an ambitious project to build a canal across the Libyan desert. Libya’s waterway project is the largest of Dong-Ah’s overseas contracts and is worth $6.5bn. It has completed 98% of the work on the […]
TWENTY-SEVEN people are missing in the sinking of a ferry off the east coast of Madagascar, papers said here Saturday. Press reports said the vessel went down on Thursday with 41 people on board while sailing between the eastern port of Soanierana-Ivongo and the popular tourist island of Sainte Marie, which is some 30 kilometers […]
THE Namibian government will send 300 trainee nurses to the north-central part of the country to help cope with a malaria epidemic that claimed 148 lives in April, health officials said on Thursday. Cases skyrocketed to more than 63 000 following late rains in April in the flood-prone Owambo region, regional health director Naftali Hamata […]
Julian Schnabel made his name as a ”neo-expressionist” painter during the Eighties, when that form of highly charged canvas experienced a brief revival. His most memorable works were images splashed over huge areas covered with shattered crockery – a rather original way of providing the work with some extra texture.
Ntuthuko Maphumulo badminton For the first time in South Africa or Africa a badminton tournament of world importance will be staged on the continent. South Africa will be hosting the sixth world junior championships in November next year. About 30 countries will participate in the tournament, which will determine the world rankings. African Badminton Federation […]
Mail & Guardian Reporter The Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) has released a publication focusing on South Africa’s inability to stimulate economic growth and job creation. The publication is an edited summary of a round-table discussion of private sector economists, business leaders, government officials and the president’s economic adviser, Wiseman Nkuhlu. CDE executive director […]
The recent international documentary film festival in Nyon, Switzerland, showcased five South African works Neil Sonnekus If a recent documentary film festival in Switzerland is anything to go by, South African films are rapidly losing their cringe factor. This is largely due to Cape Town suss and Swiss expertise. The former belongs to director of […]