Barbara Ellen Body Language According to Gail Sheehy’s new book, Passages in Men’s Lives, the key triggers of male mid-life crisis are: the death of a parent, relationship breakdown and career insecurity. Of the three, the last seems to be the most common. Certainly, when a friend of mine lost his job, he displayed all […]
WAGE negotiations between municipal workers and the government were resolved on Thursday by the Centre for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration. The South Africa Municipal Workers’ Union said the parties agreed to settle on the greater of R230 per month or a 5,5% salary increase. For the first time, municipal workers will receive a minimum wage […]
TEN Pakistanis who were among a group of 21 sailors abducted by a Somali warlord are returning home this weekend after more than six months in captivity, officials said on Friday. The sailors were freed after successful negotiations with their captors by Pakistan ambassador to neighbouring Kenya Hameed Asghar Kidwai and officials of the Asaka […]
One of his former classmates described the young Philip Powell as a collector of Nazi paraphernalia "obsessed with warfare".
Makhosini Nkosi There are fears that a bloody confrontation could arise between Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National Congress supporters in Nongoma when the ANC begins putting up election posters in the northern KwaZulu- Natal town. Local IFP leader and MP Albert Mncwango warned he could not guarantee that the people of Nongoma would […]
BOTSWANA’S tourism season is set for another bumper year amid growing resentment that the industry, set to replace the nation’s ailing mining sector, is still dominated by expatriates. The Deputy Commissioner of Labour, Moshe Stimela, says his department is extremely concerned that after so many years the industry has made little progress in training citizens. […]
Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week In a matter of a fortnight we have seen the release of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Bride of Chucky and now 8mm – all movies that revel in the art of salacious gore and sadistic voyeurism. A forerunner to all these was Peeping Tom, Michael Powell’s 1960 masterpiece […]
AN AMENDMENT to the Arms and Ammunition Act will allowed licensed firearm holders to only lend their guns to other licence holders, the Safety and Security ministry said on Thursday. The ministry said that amendment is to curb the increase of handguns being used in crime. Previously licensed holders could lend their firearms to anybody […]
THREE editors of Uganda’s independent Monitor newspaper were charged in a Kampala magistrate’s court with sedition and publishing false news that could create “fear and alarm” on Thursday. The charges follow publication in the daily on Tuesday of a photograph of a naked woman having her pubic hair cut with scissors by a group of […]
Review of the week Alex Dodd There’s this theory – a kind of conspiracy for chemically inspired dreamers. What would happen if some lateral guerrilla managed to put massive doses of Ecstasy in Johannesburg’s water supply. Would the murder and rape rates flatten out for one dizzy day? Would hijackers be disarmed by a strange […]