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/ 7 September 2007
This week, in a rare victory for the barrier’s critics, Israel’s Supreme Court ordered the government to reroute the barrier away from Bil’in in Palestine, which should eventually allow villagers to reclaim some of the large slice of their farmland that has been cut off from them for nearly three years.
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/ 7 September 2007
If continuing talks between Telkom, Vodafone and MTN materialise into a deal where Telkom offloads its 50% stake in mobile partner Vodacom, valued at between R70-billion and R75-billion, Dimension Data chairperson Andile Ngcaba and other Elephant Consortium partners stand to be handsomely rewarded.
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/ 7 September 2007
A British diplomatic source in Harare has described reports that China is scaling down its presence in Zimbabwe as a "gross exaggeration". China has moved in to fill the vacuum left in Zimbabwe by the West and has signed a number of agreements and secured several trade deals.
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/ 7 September 2007
A 12-year study by the World Bank using new technology has found that African countries flare enough gas each year — 40-billion cubic metres (BCM) — to power half the continent’s electricity needs if put to productive use. Just one country, Nigeria, flares 23 BCM annually.
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/ 7 September 2007
Gender has been catapulted into the spotlight in South Africa’s judiciary. An untransformed Bar has been identified as the main cause for the lack of women judges. Of South Africa’s 203 high court judges, only 33 (16%) are women. There are no women judge presidents and only one deputy judge president.
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/ 7 September 2007
Controversial businessman Charles Modise, who claimed to have made a R500 000 cash donation to South African Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande, was arrested on Wednesday evening by the Scorpions in Johannesburg after being ”lured” to a meeting by the head of detectives in Gauteng, Commissioner Norman Taioe.
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/ 7 September 2007
The Greek poet George Seferis wrote: ”Wherever I go Greece wounds me.” But nothing would wound him more than the sight of his beloved country today after fires that have erupted across its length and breadth and consumed thousands of hectares of forest and farmland, devastated four million olive trees and gutted about 6Â 000 homes.
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/ 7 September 2007
When South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) boss Dali Mpofu led the public broadcaster to quit the South African National Editors’ Forum last week in protest against the ”profit-driven” media’s treatment of Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, he neglected to mention a commercial interest that might have clouded his own judgement.
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/ 7 September 2007
The Water Research Commission has published a controversial report showing that one of Tshwane’s main water sources is heavily polluted with toxic chemicals, but it has apparently been ”doctored” on the orders of a Tshwane metro official. The commission is a scientific body that reports to the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry.
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/ 7 September 2007
Jimmy Manyi, chairperson of the Commission for Employment Equity and president of the Black Management Forum (BMF), hit headlines this week after he proposed to Parliament that white women should be struck off a list of groups recognised by the employment-equity legislation as previously disadvantaged.