Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was set to swear in a new Cabinet in the West Bank on Sunday, further sealing the divide sparked by the bloody seizure of the Gaza Strip by his Islamist rivals. Palestinian officials hope the creation of an emergency Cabinet without Hamas will lead to the lifting of a crippling Western aid boycott.
They range from surgeons and scholars to illiterate refugees from some of the world’s worst hellholes — a dizzyingly varied stream of African immigrants to the United States. More than one million strong and growing, they are enlivening American cities and altering how the nation confronts its racial identity.
Education Minister Naledi Pandor has called for a meeting to discuss the effects of the public-sector strike as well as recovery plans with provincial education minister. The Sunday Times reported that high-school pupils disrupted a Youth Day speech by President Thabo Mbeki on Saturday, demanding that he end the strike.
Disruptions to livelihoods caused by President Robert Mugabe’s controversial land-reform programme hastened the deaths of thousands of Zimbabweans and led to the loss of billions of dollars’ worth of property, says a new report released on Saturday by the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum.
A campaign to record the names and burial places of all those killed on June 16 1976 was launched on Saturday, Youth Day, in Soweto at the memorial of Hector Petersen, one of the first children to die in the uprising. ”We need to know more about who they were,” said Ali Hlongwane, chief curator at the adjacent Hector Petersen Memorial.
Abandoned in a bar as a baby and given just weeks to live by doctors seven years later, Tommy Jarvis is living proof Aids is no longer an automatic death sentence for youngsters in South Africa. Tommy, now a strapping 13-year-old who spends his spare time riding his bike and practising karate, makes light of the day that medics gave up on him.
The 12Â 000 runners in the 2007 Comrades Marathon were sent on their way at 6.30am on Sunday from outside the Pietermaritzburg City Hall to the sounds of a Zulu praise singer and the traditional Chariots of Fire theme music. The first runners were expected at the Sahara Stadium in Durban at about 11am. A fast time was anticipated in both the men’s and women’s races.
The ambition of Manuel Santos Uribelarrea is written in big black letters on the side of machines reaping the plains of South America: MSU. It is harvest time and the state-of-the-art behemoths bearing his initials have a mission to revolutionise agriculture, change the world’s eating habits and make their owner very, very wealthy.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed to commit British troops to battle in Iraq in the full knowledge that Washington had failed to make adequate preparations for the post-war reconstruction of the country. The disclosures come in a new television documentary about Blair’s decade in Downing Street.
As children, we used to play a game of hide-and-seek called ”black mampatile”. One of us was asked to look the other way while the others would quickly scatter in search of a place to hide. Another version of the game involved hiding an object; to know that s/he was looking in the right direction, the searcher would be guided by those who knew the location of the object.