UN Report of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance Durban, 31 August - 8 September 2001.

The pre-Forum virtual conference series features monthly topics from February to July 2002. COL will host the conferences, but each will be moderated and co-ordinated by a different member organisation of the Federation of Commonwealth Open and Distance Learning Associations. There will be six monthly conferences, each lasting two to three weeks, and a plenary session will be held at the Forum where moderators’ reports will be presented and discussed.

The Umsobomvu fund, established by government in 1998 to aid job creation and skills transfer to the youth, this week announced a R17-million joint venture with the National School of Accounting to offer bridging courses for post graduate students who want to be chartered accountants in SA.

In 1996, Rwanda's fertility index was one of the highest in the world, the product of a culture in which families of all social backgrounds typically have many children. Rwanda's 1994 genocide, which claimed an estimated 800,000 lives over the course of 100 days, left permanent scars on Rwanda, its culture, and its children.