Government’s energy policy is a mess because it is top-down, favours the big over the small, all but ignores renewables and puts all its eggs in very few baskets, critics say. They say the ”big is beautiful” strategy ignores the fact that individual households can meet their own energy needs while contributing to national needs.
It’s a tribute to modern vehicle manufacture that the biggest problem I’ve encountered since buying a car last year is to describe its colour. ”Oyster silver” means little to anyone beyond the motor trade, while ”brown” requires several adjectives, such as ”light” and ”silvery”, to remove the look of horror from the faces of friends and relatives.
The Ethiopian Ministry of Health has announced that it will provide free anti-retroviral therapy (ART) for 58 000 HIV-positive people until the beginning of July. The ministry said on Friday that some 23 000 people had already benefited from free ART provision since January 2005.
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The woman at the centre of the Jacob Zuma rape trial has told the Johannesburg High Court about her ordeal. The complainant in the state vs Zuma said she was already asleep when the former deputy president entered her room. It is against the law to name a rape victim, unless she gives consent.. He offered to tuck her in and massage her.
A former Enron broadband unit executive faces cross-examination this week after damaging the defence with his testimony in the fraud and conspiracy trial of company founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling. Kevin Hannon told jurors that Skilling said ”They’re on to us” in a May 2001 meeting of top executives regarding a boutique analyst firm’s criticism.
A record 4 500 athletes from 71 nations will compete in 16 sports in the biggest Commonwealth Games yet staged, getting underway in Melbourne next week. Fifty years after hosting the Olympic Games, Australia’s second-biggest city of 3,5-million people will host the fourth Commonwealth Games in Australia.
Standing astride a fume-choked footpath in the Indonesian capital, her year-old baby perched on a hip, Dewi bin Suparno signals cars with a surreptitious finger. Suparno is among an increasing number of poor women becoming "car jockeys" — someone who rides in a car so it can meet the quota of three people required to travel at peak times in Jakarta’s so-called fast lanes.
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The Jacob Zuma rape trial was adjourned shortly after he pleaded not guilty at the Johannesburg High Court on Monday. This was to allow court officials to choose who will be allowed inside the court for the complainant’s testimony to be held in camera.
An increase in minimum wages for farm workers — introduced on March 1 — is not the main reason for dismissals in the agricultural sector in Mpumalanga. This is according to Glen Cormark of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), who also noted that there were 600 cases of unfair dismissal in the sector since last April.
Foreign big game hunters bid ,5-million to shoot leopards, lions, elephants and buffaloes in Zimbabwe this year, the state media reported on Sunday. In an annual state auction for hunting trophy ”bags” on Friday, 64 local agents and foreign hunters, including bidders from Austria, Germany, Russia, Spain and the United States, paid a fixed fee of four-million Zimbabwe dollars () for a licence to kill a lion.