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/ 22 September 2004
The United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, on Tuesday delivered a stern rebuke to nations that ”shamelessly disregard” international law, explicitly chastising the United States, Sudan, Russia, Uganda, Israel and the Palestinians. He also mentioned the human rights abuses in Iraq committed in Abu Ghraib prison by American soldiers.
Annan on Darfur: World must act now
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/ 22 September 2004
The interim President of Haiti, Boniface Alexandre, on Tuesday appealed to world leaders for aid as the death toll from the country’s second flooding disaster in four months reached more than 700. Alexandre made his plea at the United Nations in New York after Tropical Storm Jeanne inundated many cities at the weekend and mudslides buried houses.
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/ 22 September 2004
Iraq’s justice minister on Tuesday night pledged to release one high-profile Iraqi woman prisoner and to consider the release of a second in a last-minute concession that may save the life of the British kidnap victim Kenneth Bigley. The sudden change in policy came as an Islamic militant group said it had killed a second American hostage held with Bigley.
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/ 22 September 2004
The new breed of citizen journalist, the person who blogs, takes photos on their mobile phone and uploads them to a mobLog (mobile weblog), records video, sends it to a video blog and participates in what is commonly becoming known as the "We Media", relies heavily on Open Source Software, often running on Linux servers.
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/ 22 September 2004
After not receiving a reply from the SA Guild of Motoring Journalists on his July article, David Bullard addresses this one to the SA Guild of Motoring Industry Publicity Generators.
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/ 22 September 2004
Time for a rant. The whoring of editorial space that masquerades as motoring journalism is the subject. Although the sentiment will sound naïve in the extreme, maybe what we have here is an opportunity to lend some real world meaning to the collective hand-wringing at media’s recent humiliations.
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/ 22 September 2004
<b>Director: Water, Environment and Forestry Technology, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Environmentek</b>
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/ 22 September 2004
<b>Executive Director: People and Conservation, SANParks</b>
Razeena is intent on healing these divides. When SANParks identified a need to involve local communities in conservation efforts within parks, the Directorate for People and Conservation was created. “It is important to bring people into conservation. Our parks should no longer be silos of isolation,” she says.
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/ 22 September 2004
Chief Operating Officer: Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism It takes a very special person to keep DEAT running smoothly. Like the mother of a large household, Pam’s job is to ensure that the disparate parts of this diverse government department run like a well-oiled machine. ‘I thrive under pressure,” she says. ‘Every day is […]
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/ 22 September 2004
It’s funny that the guys who probably personally ordered 9/11 (Haliburton Oil’s ex-CEO Dick Cheney and the son of the former head of the CIA, George Bush) had to hold each other’s hands during the whitewash known as the 9/11 commission. It’s also funny that you never really got to read what they said, as they sat side by side (but not under oath). Ian Fraser reveals little-known transcripts, and much more.