The deadline for entries into the 2010 Daniel Pearl Awards competition is 15 January 2010. The awards honour the world's best cross-border investigative journalism and are given by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a project of the Centre for Public Integrity in Washington, DC.
As South Africa steps closer to the first-ever hosting of the FIFA World Cup on African soil, it is becoming increasingly difficult for Local Organising Committee (LOC) CEO Danny Jordaan to contain his smirked expression. And rightly so, since being awarded with the privilege to host the event, the LOC has overcome many a hurdle to convince world perception that South Africa has the capacity to ...
EISH peeps, I'm as stuffed as a ballot box oops, I mean a Christmas turkey!
THE Department of Works needs an estimated N$1 billion to maintain Government properties across the country.
SOME of the eight horses found grazing on the Gross Barmen road outside Okahandja in early November, and rescued by Okahandja Police Detective William Grey, are currently living on a nearby farm.
THE sole ownership of football teams in our domestic league can have serious implications for the future sustainability of the clubs' operations, while the financial well-being of the players can be severely compromised.
AS 2009 draws to a close, the final month of the year ushered in a new all-time high for the gold price, trading in excess of US$1 200 per ounce.
THE national and presidential elections were "the most shambolic to date" and Victor Tonchi, Chairman of the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN), should be fired immediately, the president of the Congress of Democrats (CoD) said yesterday.
Early speaker names for the Design Indaba, running from 24-26 February 2010 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) have been announced.
ZIMBABWE booked a berth in the quarterfinals of the 2009 Orange CECAFA Senior Challenge tournament despite losing 0-1 to Rwanda at the Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi Kenya Saturday.
Africa's big three -- Ghana, Cameroon and Cote d'Ivoire have announced their training bases for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations and World Cup giving Zimbabwe a wide berth.
ZIMBABWE'S Sevens rugby team, the Cheetahs lost 38-7 to Wales in the Bowl final of the IRB Sevens World Series last night ending their fruitless tour to conquer the world.
REIGNING South African premiership champions, Supersport will be assessing Caps United midfielder Lionel Mtizwa next week.
The success of the new constitution-making process hinges on the national healing and reconciliation programme that seeks to address Zimbabwe's deadly culture of political polarisation, Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga said recently.
WHEN Lilly Napata was diagnosed with HIV in 2005, she thought it meant the end of life and for some moments, the whole world seemed to be crumbling on her. Narrating her ordeal, she said she could see all hopes of a better life vanishing in the air and all that lay ahead was misery, a hell on earth experience.
THE United States Agency for International Development (USaid) last week honoured groups and individuals for their contribution to raising awareness about HIV and Aids as well as fighting stigma. The annual Auxillia Chimusoro HIV and Aids awards were presented by visiting American actor Debra Messing on Thursday.
Three Western Cape teenagers have asked the climate dealmakers in Copenhagen to consider their future in a book of messages from children around the world.
Metrorail has announced scores of under-utilised trains are to be temporarily withdrawn from service for maintenance reasons - with a 10 percent average service reduction on weekdays.
Thieves have also targeted Cape Town Stadium. Although the city's 2010 spokesman Pieter Cronje downplayed the situation there, "kilometres of cabling", copper wire and a ton of bolts have disappeared from the site. Most of the thefts are believed to be inside jobs.
TOP South African female disk jockey DJ Cndo is expected in the country for a show at Stars Club on Saturday. She returns to Stars due to public demand following a sold-out show at the same venue in October.
BIG Brother (BB) 4 Revolution has come and gone just like Project Fame and Idols and now the question that must be uppermost in the minds of most of local fans and former participants in the shows is: "What next?" Itai Makumbe flew back into the country last Tuesday from South Africa where he had a good run on the Big Brother reality show that ran for three months on Dstv.
RISING author Shepherd Magombedze has launched a motivational book titled Passion for Excellence. The book, which is the author's first publication, was launched at an entertainment joint in the capital recently.
A new international report has exposed how Zanu PF supporters engaged in a "widespread and systematic campaign of rape and sexual terror" during their violent campaign in last year's presidential election run-off. As the Zanu PF's 5th National People's Congress got into full swing in Harare at the weekend, international HIV/Aids rights organisation Aids-Free World on Thursday released a report on ...
WHETHER you are the woman selling tomatoes on the street or the venerable economics professor at the university, every Zimbabwean knows that the main cause of inflation was the wild printing of paper money. Paper money increased by 400 000% in August 2008 and by 2 million% by February 2009.
Much has been made of the country's image-perception management programme and how it is the panacea to attracting more tourists to Zimbabwe ahead of next year's soccer extravaganza. But the recent announcements by nations coming to the World Cup in South Africa and the Orange Africa Cup of Nations in Angola suggest otherwise.
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