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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.
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/ 13 October 2006
Baroness Coral von Reefenhausen, arguably South Africa’s reigning drag queen, chats to Matthew Krouse.
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/ 13 October 2006
South Africa’s favourite edutainment series returns and is sadder than ever, writes Matthew Krouse.
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/ 13 October 2006
The chief whip of the ANC in parly is making the manne weep for the return of Tony ”Fabiani” Yengeni, now resident of Malmesbury. Mbulelo Goniwe (pictured above), not the brightest crayon in the box at the best of times, looks to the long-drop for political inspiration. To wit. When the Mail & Guardian revealed in 2004 that he had not declared his business interests, he told us: ”So what? I am not going to take this shit of yours any more.”
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/ 13 October 2006
The last ANC congress in Stellenbosch in 2002 signified a humiliating defeat for the leftists in the congress movement. None of the candidates they nominated for inclusion in the ANC’s national executive committee made the final list. The stage had been set a few months earlier when ANC president Thabo Mbeki called for the isolation and defeat of the “ultra leftists” in the movement.
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/ 13 October 2006
Baghdad resounds to the tales of the dead. Not the distant, dry accounting of news wires, but terrifying close-up accounts. Six beheaded corpses are dumped with their heads between their knees in Muhammad’s street in Ghazaliya, a largely Sunni suburb of Baghdad. United States soldiers ask him to search the bodies for IDs, fearful the corpses may be booby-trapped..
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/ 13 October 2006
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh and the Grameen Bank which offers loans to poor people without any financial security. The committee said: ”Lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty.”
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/ 13 October 2006
With its machine-gun dialogue, crackling wit and political savvy, The West Wing has dominated American TV drama for almost four years. But now Aaron Sorkin, the genius who created it, is leaving, reports Oliver Burkeman.
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/ 13 October 2006
A new move to provide music to Internet users is supported by record labels, reports Neil McIntosh.
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/ 13 October 2006
President Thabo Mbeki hit back at SACP leader Blade Nzimande in a fiery retort at the party’s national executive committee last weekend. His response was that of a party man: he quoted several SACP and ANC historical documents to prove his points and disprove Nzimande’s.