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A group of 350 ”pioneers” leave for Germany on Tuesday as the advance guard of approximately 2 500 South African soccer fans. ”We’ll be handling the arrangements for approximately  1500 of the total number,” said Nazeer Camaroodeen, managing-director of the company which acts as the travel agent for the South African Football Association.
South African platinum miner Impala Platinum Holdings said on Thursday that its subsidiary Zimplats has reached agreement with Zimbabwe government that creates the platform for further large scale investments in the company. Zimplats signed an agreement with the government relating to the release of a portion of its mining claims in exchange for a combination of empowerment credits and cash.
Doctors were set to begin the reconstruction on Thursday of the face of a four-year-old Kenyan boy who was mauled by dogs when he was an abandoned newborn. Daniel Wachira, who lost much of the left half of his face in the attack, was expected to be in surgery for about 11 hours to reconstruct his jaw with one of his ribs.
William M Gumede responds to accusations of plagiarism.
English is now the most secure — and least expected — of lifelines for Afrikaans, writes Darryl Accone.
The Health Ministry has commended the deputy chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) for her address to the United Nations General Assembly about the work being done in South Africa to provide HIV/Aids treatment. The ministry said Khensani Mavasa’s address was in contrast to the ”unbecoming behaviour” of the TAC chairperson, Zachie Achmat, during a march on Tuesday.
Women trained as religious guides in a pioneer programme are not authorised to lead prayers or to hold the post of imam, Morocco’s official religious authority has ruled. The fatwa came weeks after Morocco’s first 50 female ”morchidat,” religious guides, completed training by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, which oversees Morocco’s mosques.
Alberto, Beryl, Chris and Debby. Somewhere over the Atlantic, a combination of warm sea surface temperatures and wind shear is brewing up a string of tropical storms that threaten to unleash a fresh season of devastation on coastal America. A new forecast from the respected team of hurricane experts at Colorado State University predicted 17 named storms in 2006, including nine hurricanes.
When industry giant General Motors (GM) announced that it had bought the Korean minnow Daewoo a couple of years ago, and would in future brand the Asian products as Chevrolets, I questioned whether South African motorists would buy either the story or the cars, writes Gavin Foster.
So we are all supposed to withdraw quietly now and heave huge sighs of relief. The national executive committee of the African National Congress has assured us: there is no leadership tussle; succession is a foreign concept, only applicable to dynasties and inimical to the ANC. ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe apparently does not believe President Thabo Mbeki has usurped reduced him to an administrative clerk.