JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Wednesday MPUMALANGA is sitting on a race war time bomb where farm labourers still live like slaves, are denied basic health care and are treated worse than mechanical implements such as tractors, the leading political parties in the province have warned. The situation is so bad in some areas that racial […]
A DIVING safari company has hunted and killed a suspected man-eating shark off Dar es Salaam’s main beach in Tanzania after it allegedly ate five people. The pregnant 400kg shark, believed to be responsible for the death of a 28-year-old student last week, was killed after “a hell of pursuit” off the popular Coco Beach. […]
SOWETO councillor Trevor Ngwane will protest against globalisation in the US and Canada later this month when he speaks in the Challenging Globalisation at Grassroots campaign. The month-long campaign is being driven by Global-South, a movement against corporate globalisation, and aims to generate solidarity for social justice movements in South Africa and Bolivia. The tour […]
A WARRANT of arrest has been issued against Presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana after he failed to turn up for a child maintenance hearing in Mpumalanga. Mankahlana had denied fathering a child by Thalitha Mthethwa nine years ago, but a paternity test proved he was the father. Mthethwa, a teacher, and Mankahlana lived together for two […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday SOUTH Africa’s foreign affairs department has launched a programme to ensure that blacks will fill 80% of the posts in the country’s diplomatic missions within the next 12 months, Business Day newspaper reports. The newspaper quoted foreign affairs director-general Sipho Pityana as saying that at the beginning of the […]
ISLAMIC extremists massacred 14 members of the same family overnight after attacking their home in north-western Algeria as they slept. The assailants raided the house of an agricultural worker in the isolated hamlet of Ouled Amrane, and killed six women, four children and four men, setting about them with axes and knives as well as […]
THE newly-elected government in Mauritius is to wage war on corruption in an effort to restore the island’s economy to health. President Cassam Uteem told parliament the country’s finances needed to be cleaned up and judicial and economic reforms enacted. Uteem said the budget deficit was unsustainable, public debt was running at unprecedented levels and […]
EARLY harvests are improving food supplies in the west of Kenya but shortages in drought ravaged regions are getting worse, the government said. Harvesting in the breadbasket region has been promising, but food shortages are expected to persist in the arid Eastern, North Eastern and parts of the Rift Valley and these areas will continue […]
A ZAMBIAN court has granted a divorce to a man whose wife locked him in the bedroom every night to stop him committing adultery, a Zambian newspaper said. Apparently, the man’s wife, Lifuna Nyambe, told judge Alfred Shilibwa that she was afraid that if she left the bedroom door open, her husband would sneak out […]
PRESIDENT Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has ordered the return of a confiscated diamond, worth up to $20m, to a local businessman. The diamond, of about 267 carats, was seized in June. Its owner, Alphonse Ngoyi Kasanji, was imprisoned while authorities investigated reports that it had come from a concession owned […]