Ronald Matsito has been unable to pick up the pieces since his home of 15 years and his small hardware shop were bulldozed two months ago during the Zimbabwe government’s clean up campaign. ”I can’t see a way forward,” says Matsito (55) a father of five who lives in Mufakose. ”I’ve lost everything.”
They’re being bred now by the millions, the mutants, created to carry the ghastliest of diseases for the benefit of the human race. Since researchers published the mouse’s entire genetic make-up in map form three years ago, increasingly exotic rodents are being created with relative ease.
Sudan said on Monday it had formed a committee to probe the death of first vice president and former rebel leader John Garang when a Ugandan helicopter crashed on its way to south Sudan from Uganda. ”A higher national committee has been formed to investigate the crash of Dr John Garang’s aircraft in southern Sudan,” Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail told reporters in Khartoum.
Ten protesters were injured, two seriously, in Germiston and over 40 arrested in Pinetown in clashes between police and protesting municipal workers on Monday. Ekhurhuleni metro police spokesperson Vusi Mabanga said that protesters marching in central Germiston started breaking traffic lights and littering.
South African mediators have deemed that laws passed by Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo last month do conform to the country’s peace plan, dealing a blow to rebels who had refused to start disarming and said the laws were inadequate. Opposition parties claimed that the laws, passed without approval by the Parliament, would restrict the number of people eligible to vote in elections.
The summer transfer window does not close until the end of August, but despite some frenetic wheeling and dealing it will be the tried and trusted players that the big clubs rely on as they look to win the title. For a team with a billionaire owner, champions Chelsea have been relatively frugal this summer.
Inayat Bunglawala was born in northwest England, speaks English as his native language and only once visited his ancestral homeland, India. That makes him bridle at a proposal being floated in the government to start calling him Indian-British to strengthen his bond to Britain.
The Black Angel by John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton) Connolly takes his Charlie Parker series from the serial-killer realm towards supernatural horror. Killer Louis is searching for his junkie-whore cousin and her abductors; Parker comes to realise that this disappearance is part of an older mystery — one linked to a church of bones in […]
The British team who aided the rescue of seven Russian submariners from the depths of the Pacific flew home on Monday night, as details emerged of the crew’s horrifying 76 hours spent in the icy dark, their vessel enmeshed in a fishing net. Pictured strolling the grounds of their hospital, the crew said they had survived on only three to four gulps of water a day.
A smartly-dressed young mother, the head of the healthy children’s committee, stands before the parent-teacher association to demand that fizzy drinks be removed from the school vending machines. Moments later she is negotiating a deal to buy a large quantity of marijuana to sell to teenagers and their parents.