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/ 28 January 2008
It has come down to Obama versus Clinton in the key southern state of South Carolina — but the Clinton that Barack Obama is up against is Bill, not Hillary. She flew out of the state late on Monday night, heading for Washington and then west to California and Arizona, leaving her husband behind to slug it out with Obama in the tough and rumbustious southern state that goes to the polls on Saturday.
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/ 27 January 2008
Is it our business as journalists to pronounce on who is best placed to lead the ANC? If you look at some of the personalities in the party’s new leadership, such as unrepentant convicted fraudster Tony Yengeni, or former Mpumalanga health minister Sibongile Manana, who tried to frustrate provision of treatment to people with HIV, the temptation exists to damn them all.
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/ 27 January 2008
‘We’re running out of oil!” We’ve been hearing this warning at least since the 1970s oil shocks, but recently it has been proclaimed with increasing insistence. The idea goes back to 1956, when Shell geologist M King Hubbert declared that the world had enough oil for only about 50 more years, writes Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero.
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/ 27 January 2008
”How Pahad censored Roberts” (January 11) is a headline at war with its facts. As with my Gordimer biography, I invited comments, accepting the helpful and rejecting the rest. ”I may say at this point, before dealing with other matters, that you also surely must have seen how your book has lost nothing in the cuts made,” Gordimer wrote on March 5 2003. That is not censorship.
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/ 27 January 2008
Veteran striker Francileudo dos Santos scored twice as Tunisia thrashed South Africa 3-1 on Sunday to go top of Group D in the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations. The Carthage Eagles have collected four points from two matches and lead on goals scored from Angola, who hit back in the second half to shock Senegal 3-1 in the first half of a double-header in Tamale.
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/ 27 January 2008
As SRC officials and African staff at the University of KwaZulu-Natal we consider it necessary to indicate our position on the alleged rape of an American student at UKZN — and specifically to reply to "On race and rape at UKZN" (November 6) by Lubna Nadvi. We condemn the rape of any student or staff member, regardless of their race or class.
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/ 27 January 2008
Cristiano Ronaldo scored two goals on Sunday to help Manchester United beat Tottenham 3-1 in the fourth round of the FA Cup, and United celebrated some more when neighbour Manchester City was ousted by Sheffield United 2-1. Robbie Keane gave Spurs a 24th-minute lead at Old Trafford, but Carlos Tevez equalised in the 38th.
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/ 27 January 2008
Manucho scored two more goals as Angola came from behind for a surprise win 3-1 win over Senegal at the African Nations Cup on Sunday. Abdoulaye Faye gave Senegal a halftime time lead when he scored with a header in the 20th minute of a pulsating game.
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/ 27 January 2008
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) said on Sunday that the death of Don Pasquallie (41), the union’s deputy general-secretary, was a ”profound loss” to the organisation. Pasquallie died in a car accident in Napier, near Bredasdorp in the Western Cape, at about 6am on Sunday morning.
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/ 27 January 2008
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) said on Sunday that the death of Don Pasquallie (41), the union’s deputy general-secretary, was a ”profound loss” to the organisation. Pasquallie died in a car accident in Napier, near Bredasdorp in the Western Cape, at about 6am on Sunday morning.