The past week has seen a flurry of feminist presidential activity. President Thabo Mbeki is emerging as a leading new man — the term to describe that individual who has seen the light, found his feminine side and can walk the talk as well as change the nappies. It’s never too late for a brother to find his inner woman and not too early to anoint his chosen woman.
For once the Premiership is not going to be the be-all and end-all of the weekend headlines. England’s record-breaking cricketers won’t take the glory. Neither will the Olympians in their final weekend of manic medalling in Athens. As for the Michael Schumacher-dominated Formula One Grand Prix in Belgium, forget it.
I think therefore I am, said Socrates, and he was right. Obviously times have changed, and today’s thinkers, people like Gene Roddenbery and Gnome Chomsky, are more insightful on the whole, but Socrates’s motto is still worth celebrating, as our capacity to think is what separates us from the animals.
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Tens of thousands joined a march in Dhaka on Thursday in honour of 20 people killed in a grenade attack on an opposition rally by suspected Islamic militants a week ago, officials said. About 30Â 000 opposition activists, barefoot and holding black flags, took part in the silent march held under tight security.
A grenade exploded at a crowded market in the north-eastern Assam state of India on Thursday, injuring seven people hours after two bomb blasts elsewhere in the state left four dead and 39 others wounded, police said. Suspected militants from the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom hurled the grenade at the market.
On a national tour ahead of the floor-crossing window for councillors, Inkatha Freedom Party national chairperson Ziba Jiyane is stressing its ”centre-right” position and its standpoint on family values. He also criticised the appointment of women with wealthy husbands in jobs above breadwinners.
At least 74 people were killed and 376 wounded in a mortar attack at a mosque and shooting on demonstrators loyal to rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the southern city of Kufa, the Iraqi Health Ministry said. Officials were unable to distinguish between those who died in the double mortar bombing and the shooting.
Six Armenian air crew members accused of helping to plot to oust Equatorial Guinea’s long-time leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema told a court in Malabo on Thursday that they had nothing to do with the alleged plot. They said they were until recently unaware on what charges they were being held.
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A 31-year-old American man was in a Berlin jail cell on Thursday after allegedly running up 000 in bills at luxury hotels in the German capital by claiming he was a visiting dignitary or bank executive. The man reportedly told police when as they clamped handcuffs on him: ”Oh well, it was good while it lasted.”