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/ 10 November 2006
President Armando Guebuza pledged to step up the fight against the crippling levels of poverty in war-ravaged Mozambique on Friday as he opened the long-time ruling Frelimo party’s national congress. Frelimo has begun to make inroads into levels of poverty in the past few years.
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/ 10 November 2006
Khoisan rights supporters marched through Cape Town’s city centre on Friday to protest what an organiser said was the lack of Armistice Day recognition of the historic role of indigenous Khoisan warriors. The City of Cape Town will hold its annual Armistice Day ceremony at the Cenotaph in Adderley Street on Saturday morning.
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/ 10 November 2006
Typhoon Chebi was on course to hit the north-eastern Philippines early on Saturday, promising to become the second to slam the country in as many weeks. Authorities upgraded Chebi from a tropical storm on Friday and told residents to brace for possible floods and landslides.
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/ 10 November 2006
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon lambasted the government on Friday, and particularly Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk, for neglecting the critical issue of climate change. Leon said climate change was arguably the biggest threat to the planet, evidenced by shrinking glaciers and soaring carbon emissions.
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/ 10 November 2006
The Namibian government sparked fears among white farmers on Friday that their land could be expropriated after sending teams of inspectors to carry out surveys of their property. Lands Minister Jerry Ekandjo informed 45 landowners in letters that the assessments were necessary ”to create a land-use model”.
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/ 10 November 2006
Kwanele Sosibo talks to the makers of <i>Bunny Chow</i> about their low-budget road movie and what drives the audience.
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/ 10 November 2006
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Writer-director Rian Johnson’s latest feature, <i>Brick</i> looks good in an understated, unfussy way, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 10 November 2006
Zukiswa Wanner’s <i>The Madams</i> flips the notion of white madam, black maid on its head. This is an extract from the fourth chapter.
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/ 10 November 2006
Michael Raeburn’s unusual and mainly credible novel, <i>Night of the Fireflies</i>, shows life as far more than everyday humdrum reality and politics, writes Jane Rosenthal.
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/ 10 November 2006
Jocelyn Hellig reviews Dr Warren Goldstein’s <i>Defending the human spirit: Jewish law’s vision for a moral society</i>.