There was no word on Wednesday night on progress made at a tripartite alliance meeting held to discuss calls to drop corruption charges against former deputy president Jacob Zuma. ANC spokesperson Steyn Speed said at 7.30pm that he was not sure if the alliance members were still meeting.
New Zealand piled up a massive score of 397-5 in only 44 overs against a hapless Zimbabwe at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo on Wednesday in the first of a series of one-day international matches that also involves India. Lou Vincent and Stephen Fleming figured in a record partnership of 204 for any Kiwis in this form of the game.
Famine is a threat in almost half of Chad because of destructively heavy rains after a long period of drought, a food security official at the health ministry, Tao Bouhouraye, said on Wednesday. ”We can’t speak of famine in Chad, but we can talk of a risk of famine in the Sahel zone and in the centre of the country, as well as … in the west,” he said.
The FNB Stadium might be the last place on the planet Kaizer Chiefs would like to be playing soccer following the uncontrolled vandalism of their supporters on Saturday night during and after the 2-1 SAA Supa8 defeat against Bloemfontein Celtic. But, like it or not, Amakhosi return to the scene of their shame on Thursday night.
The government’s approach to land reform is the right one, albeit a ”bit slow”, and it will not be reckless or vindictive in this regard, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Wednesday. She was replying to questions in the National Assembly about her recent remarks that South Africa could learn from Zimbabwe about land reform.
Israel said on Wednesday all its soldiers will be out of the Gaza Strip within a month, ending four decades of occupation after the historic pull-out of Jewish settlers from the Palestinian territory. Minister of Defence Shaul Mofaz said it is too soon to expect further evacuations in the occupied West Bank.
Even if he doesn’t live up to his name, it’s going to take a hard-hearted magistrate to pronounce him guilty. Always Innocent is facing a charge of possession of suspected stolen goods, and was scheduled to appear for trial in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
At least 41 people were killed but 57 survived when a Peruvian jetliner with 100 people on board crashed in a storm just seconds from landing in Peru’s Amazon basin, officials said on Wednesday. A control-tower official said a violent storm with fierce winds had broken out as the plane prepared for landing.
Zambian government officials on Wednesday confirmed that 82 people were injured in a near-fatal train derailment in the country’s Southern province on Tuesday. Several coaches carrying more than 200 people derailed and overturned in the town of Mazabuka, about 200km south of Lusaka, during peak travelling time.
A life-size statue of Prince Diana and Dodi Fayed, who died together in a Paris car crash in 1997, will soon be displayed at Harrod’s department store in central London, owner Mohamed al Fayed said on Wednesday. The work shows the couple holding hands and gazing into each other’s eyes beneath a soaring albatross.