South African tennis champions Liezel Huber and Wesley Moodie’s victories at this year’s Wimbledon tournament has raised questions about support for the sport in South Africa. Ian Smith, chief executive of the South African Tennis Association, told the Mail & Guardian Online that both wins were great to build support for South African tennis, especially since the two players weren’t funded and had no coach.
More than 6,2-million South Africans were infected by HIV or Aids by last year, an increase of 700Â 000 from 2003, a new health ministry report said. Though women in their mid- to late-20s were the hardest hit by the pandemic, ”it was observed that there have been increases in prevalence across all age groups between 2003 and 2004”, the report said.
More than 30 civilians were burned alive when an armed gang herded them into their huts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and set them on fire, the United Nations mission in the DRC said on Monday.
The United States has banned its 12Â 000 air-force personnel stationed in the United Kingdom from travelling to London to ”ensure their safety and security” in the aftermath of last week’s bombings in the capital. A directive was issued to all United States Air Force staff just 24 hours after the terrorist attacks.
"We were about 150m into the tunnel when a bomb went off in our carriage. I definitely knew a bomb had gone off. There was a lot of soot and dust in the tunnel," says South African Jason Rennie, who was on the London Tube when a bomb exploded in his carriage, one of the four bombs that killed about 50 people in last Thursday’s terror attacks.
There are many elements to success in business. But some, like hard work, attention to clients’ needs and sheer drive, are universally applicable. Ciko Thomas, one of four directors of the first 100% black-owned BMW dealership, attributes the success of their 18-month-old business to these and an extra ingredient — naïvety.
What began as the "insane adventure" of "a boy from the Cape who loves rugby and boerewors" has transformed into a plea for Africa and its people. And as Blair and Bush and Bono debate the salvation of the continent from war, famine, debt and disease, Riaan Manser (30) has some advice for them: "Africa needs tough love."
Over the past decade there have been 1 127 publicly announced black economic empowerment deals worth R232,6-billion, according to Ernst & Young. At the end of May, the JSE Securities Exchange had a market capitalisation of R2 800-billion. The black equity in the above companies is 0,36% of the market total. It can safely be assumed that the total is less than 1% of the JSE’s market capitalisation.
For thousands of years, girls in the area that is now the tiny African country of Djibouti have been subjected to pharaonic circumcision. Djibouti’s health ministry estimates that 98% of all Djiboutian women are circumcised — the highest rate of any country in the world. Now activists are starting to refuse to follow this age-old tradition.
To the Tibetans and their supporters across the globe, Tibet remains the world’s largest colony under Chinese occupation. Conversely, Beijing sees Tibet as an inalienable ”part of China”. Today the question is no longer one of mere politics: for the People’s Republic of China, the focus centres on maintaining and increasing Chinese economic dominance in Tibet.