South Africa’s vibrant game auctions replete with animals ranging from rhinos to giraffes are being seen as a key element to the country’s conservation efforts. As game hunting as well as camera safaris and eco-tourism earn mega bucks, more and more people are being lured to open game farms.
An X-ray of Kamil Abdel Qader’s lungs show a lower third that is entirely scarred — lasting damage from the poisonous gas that rained down on the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988. Doctors say he needs to get a fist-size chunk of tissue removed from his damaged lungs if he is going to survive, but he still considers himself the lucky one.
It would not take an expert cryptographer to discern the true mission of the train that rolled out of London Waterloo on Tuesday night bound for the Cannes film festival. Though the train — named the Da Vinci Code, and carrying Tom Hanks, Ian McKellen and Audrey Tatou — was apparently trying to break the world record for the longest international non-stop rail journey, some suggested it was little more than a glorified publicity machine.
Max Ozinsky, widely credited with being the strategic mastermind behind the Western Cape African National Congress, is weary of attracting attention. The provincial party’s only white ANC office-bearer, he prefers the shield of collective leadership. The Mail & Guardian spoke to the man who has often been described as an intractable revolutionary.
Typhoon Chanchu churned its way towards Hong Kong and Southern China on Wednesday, causing the cancellation of some flights and ferry services as the region battened down to prepare for the storm. The typhoon, which killed 41 people when it tore through the Philippines, is the strongest on record to enter the South China Sea in May.
<i>Rolling Stone</i>, the American music and pop culture magazine, is celebrating a milestone this month with the release of its 1Â 000th issue. For 39 years, the magazine has straddled the divide between countercultural and conventional journalism, with covers that have depicted and even created modern-day icons.
A 25cm fossil meteorite has been discovered in the 145-million-year-old Morokweng crater, about 766m beneath the Kalahari Desert in the north-west province of South Africa, the University of the Witwatersrand announced on Wednesday.
Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) of Azania president Motsoko Pheko made a qualified apology on Tuesday for comments the Human Rights Commission condemned as anti-gay. The South African Broadcasting Corporation quoted Pheko as saying the PAC did not care if it failed to get votes from gays and lesbians as they faced extinction and could not bear children.
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A strong earthquake measuring 6,8 on the Richter scale struck near Indonesia’s Nias Island late on Tuesday, seismologists said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The underwater quake hit at 10.28pm local time at a depth of 1,9km, some 270km south-west of Sibolga on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the United States Geological Survey said.