South Africa is in a health care crisis. Doctors and nurses are leaving the country. Equipment, supplies and hospitals are inadequate. And, there are charges that the health care system is rife with fraud and mismanagement. Martin Phillips reports for VOA from Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province.
afrol News - Huge diamonds found in DRC : "A Canadian mineral exploration firm, Mexivada Mining Corp, has reported the discovery of two large diamonds in its 100% controlled Malambani Permis de Recherche concession, located near Mayoko in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mexivada described the first stone as a white, modified octahedron 7.5 milimetres in diameter while the second stone was a shiny 6 milimetre greenish-white coloured dodecahedral diamond. Each of them weighs 0.1 gram"