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(NNPA/GIN) – As South African Pres. Jacob Zuma rushed home from China to broker an end to the three-week-long nationwide strike, his ANC party was under heavy criticism for bringing the country to the brink. In pictures seen around the world, schools and hospital went unstaffed as close to a million people stayed out of […]

(GIN) – Africa’s knowledge base was the focus of the third Walter Sisulu University Research Conference held this month at the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital. Over 200 papers were presented at the three day conference. Titled “Consolidating Research, Innovation and Technology Platforms for a Knowledge-based Economy,” the meeting attracted delegates from as far as Japan […]

(GIN) – Rwandan President Paul Kagama is said to be fuming over a leaked United Nations report that ties him to the massacres of Hutu men, women, children and the elderly.? The massive 600-page “mapping” report, prepared for the UN but leaked to Le Monde, a French newspaper, states that after the 1994 genocide in […]