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The expensive silverware to be awarded to the winner of the Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean has been damaged while on display in India, organisers said on Friday. A gold ring below the coins depicting previous winners of the sport’s biggest prize got detached from the wooden base of the 11kg trophy.
Zimbabwe’s Information Minister on Thursday dismissed as a ”grandiose flight of imagination” claims by a Brussels-based think tank that President Robert Mugabe’s iron grip on the country was being challenged and could result in political change by next year.
President George Bush on Thursday night started a five-nation tour of Latin America in an effort to salvage Washington’s reputation in the region and counter the influence of Venezuela’s President, Hugo Chávez. Violent clashes were taking place between police and masked protesters in the financial centre of São Paulo, the president’s first stop.
Gautengers rejoice, your cost of living is in the bottom quartile of 135 cities surveyed by <i>The Economist</i>. Johannesburg and Pretoria are ranked 100th in a survey of the world’s most expensive cities, having dropped 23 places since last year. This is according to the Worldwide Cost of Living survey, released by <i>The Economist</i> intelligence unit.
A total of 1,000 journalists were killed between January 1996 and June 2006, according to a study released by the International News Safety Institute (INSI) this week. “Nine out of 10 murderers in the past decade have never been prosecuted- This is the most shocking fact at the heart of the inquiry,” says Richard Sambrook, BBC global news director and chairman of the INSI study.
If you’re buying on credit at your friendly filling station you have to take two credit cards with you, one for fuel and one for the other stuff. So sensitive were the authorities in the past to the spectre of discounted petrol, that a whole separate credit card had to be issued just to ensure there was no discounting.
Gautengers rejoice, your cost of living is in the bottom quartile of 135 cities surveyed by <i>The Economist</i>. Johannesburg and Pretoria are ranked 100th in a survey of the world’s most expensive cities, having dropped 23 places since last year. This is according to the Worldwide Cost of Living survey, released by <i>The Economist</i> intelligence unit.
When North West Premier Edna Molewa went walkabout in Khutsong two weeks ago she was sworn at by residents who told her to bring back Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa. She was welcomed by only a few residents, particularly those invested in the system.
African National Congress (ANC) alliance partner the Congress of South African Teade Unions (Cosatu) has announced a radical strategy aimed at changing the ANC’s leadership and overall policy direction. Cosatu has also warned that it may not endorse the ANC in the next election if the ruling party does not deliver results for workers.
An estimated 4,2-million unsafe abortions are performed each year in Africa and 30 000 women die as a result, a seminar heard on Thursday. ”Tens of millions of women of reproduction age in Africa today will experience an unsafe abortion in their lifetime,” said Liz Maguire, president of Ipas — an international NGO that promotes women’s health.