The United Nations food agency on Wednesday appealed for -million in expanded food aid for Zimbabwe and pledged to assist about 3,3-million starving citizens of that country. Zimbabwe is in the throes of a chronic economic crisis with the world’s highest rate of inflation and four in every five people jobless.
Vigilante farmer patrols do not control the Zimbabwe-South African border, Limpopo police said on Wednesday. The statement came after a Sky News report into vigilantism against border-crossing aired earlier this week. The report apparently showed South African farmers capturing Zimbabweans trying to cross the border.
South African companies are beginning to follow their international counterparts in blocking workers’ access to popular social-networking site Facebook. They cite concerns over productivity, but some experts defend the site, saying it holds huge potential as a business tool.
Reckoning with former leaders who were involved in apartheid crimes should be dealt with politically and not by the National Prosecuting Authority, former transport minister Mac Maharaj said on Wednesday. Speaking at a Cape Town Press Club luncheon, he said such matters could not be ”shunted off to a bureaucracy to handle”.
All six ministers from Iraq’s largest Sunni bloc tendered their resignation from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s coalition government on Wednesday following a month-long spat. The decision by the National Concord Front effectively ends any claim by the Shi’ite-dominated coalition to be a government of national unity.
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