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South African Tourism hopes to attract visitors by offering them real human contact experience. Presenting a new strategy for tourism on Wednesday in Kyalami north of Johannesburg, strategic relations manager Chantal Cuddumbey said the new approach demonstrates experiences that South Africa has to offer.
About 300 000 civilians have fled their homes in the area of Kalehe in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where a rebel general is holding out against government troops, relief workers have reported in Kinshasa. Clashes have occurred around Kalehe, about 60km from the key town of Bukavu.
The recent brutal murder of a university student and the shooting of a soccer coach by a referee have rekindled the long-running debate about gun control in South Africa. Gun-related violence claims about 10Â 000 people in South Africa each year, according to the campaign group Gun-Free South Africa.
Namibian church leaders called on the country’s government on Wednesday to be cautious as it moves toward the first expropriations under its land reform programme. A 14-strong delegation from the Council of Churches in Namibia made the appeal after meeting with Prime Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab.
Two people burnt to death after their car was engulfed in a huge forest fire in Spain, officials said on Wednesday as firefighters battled blazes in many parts of sweltering southern Europe. Portugal appealed for more help from its European partners and in France authorities said they had succeeded in containing a large blaze.
The Inkatha Freedom Party on Wednesday rebuffed a call by KwaZulu-Natal’s minister for safety and security, Bheki Cele, to extradite Philip Powell from Britain to stand trial in connection with arms smuggling before the 1994 elections. The call was made after the discovery of weapons caches in the Ulundi Legislative Assembly two weeks ago.
South Africa’s opposition Freedom Front Plus says it is concerned about the black economic empowerment charter for agriculture — dubbed AgriBEE — because it introduces unrealistic time frames with too little emphasis on productivity as well as creating unachievable expectations.
The carpet that for many years carried visible stains of the blood from the stabbing of South Africa’s apartheid Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has been removed from the Old House of Assembly at Parliament in Cape Town. Veteran politician Helen Suzman on Wednesday said she wondered what "had been swept under it over the years".
An envoy of the African Union’s chairperson, Nigerian President Olesegun Obasanjo, views the Darfur problem as an internal African issue to be solved by the AU alone, Sudanese media reported on Wednesday. ”The Darfur problem is a purely African one that has to be resolved by the AU,” General Abdulsalami Abubakar said.
Sudan to face ‘genocide’ inquiry