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/ 13 October 2006
Maurizio Montalbini is Italy’s least gregarious citizen. The 53-year-old sociologist has distinguished himself by spending almost three years of his life in total on his own and underground. On Thursday Montalbini vanished into a pothole near the eastern Italian town of Ascoli Piceno having instructed his support team that, so long as all went well, he should be left undisturbed for another three years.
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/ 13 October 2006
Oilgate company Imvume this week stumbled in its Johannesburg High Court bid to unmask the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s confidential sources of information. Judge Dabi Khumalo on Tuesday issued a damning judgement on Imvume’s conduct before the start of the hearing, set down for this week, meaning Imvume will be disadvantaged should the matter proceed.
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/ 13 October 2006
The twelve-week long Shoprite Checkers strike that reportedly closed six stores across the country came to an end on Thursday after all-night negotiations. But this strike was just one of several months-long strikes this year in the service industry, a sector of the economy that is experiencing the strongest employment growth and the weakest labour relations.
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/ 13 October 2006
The Zimbabwean police have ignored a written order from the attorney general’s department to arrest state secret agent Joseph Mwale so he could face trial for allegedly murdering two opposition activists six years ago, sources told <i>ZimOnline</i>.
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/ 13 October 2006
Top parliamentary officials are ignoring their own policy guidelines to protect African National Congress chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe from court action aimed at getting him to pay maintenance for two children he fathered. The Sheriff of Cape Town has repeatedly requested permission from the legislature to serve Goniwe with a summons to appear in the Bedford maintenance court.
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/ 13 October 2006
<strong>CD of the week</strong>: The Narrow: Self-Conscious
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/ 13 October 2006
“There’s an old Italian saying: you fuck up once, you lose two teeth,” growls crime boss Tony Soprano in the hit drama series The Sopranos. Fans of this tough but troubled character (played so well by James Gandolfini) and his two families — his wife Carmela (Edie Falco) and kids, and his gun-toting crime associates […]
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/ 13 October 2006
Nelson Mandela’s favourite tales come alive on stage, thanks to Janice Honeyman’s obsessive inclinations, writes Guy Willoughby.
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/ 13 October 2006
Let us not ask what the government, or to be more precise Deputy Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba, really wanted the Films and Publications Amendment Bill to achieve when he approved it for tabling in Parliament. Let us stick instead to the more readily discernible facts: what they said they wanted it to achieve, and the mechanisms the Bill proposes.
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/ 13 October 2006
General Motors is set to reap a giant-sized return on its investment into a Hummer assembly plant in Port Elizabeth. GM announced last year that it was investing $100-million (R773-million) into its South African operations, primarily in the production of the Hummer H3, a mid-size version of the vehicle Arnie Schwarzenegger made famous, the Hummer.