The Mail & Guardian tried to put some tough questions to Forum of Black Journalists (FBJ) chairperson Abbey Makoe, and asked some of the country’s top editors for their opinion on the relaunch of the FBJ and its blacks-only, off-the-record briefing with Jacob Zuma.
Ferial Haffajee’s article ”In office, but not in power” (February 1) was a response to an earlier article by African staff and student leaders at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (”Selective outrage: on racism and rape at UKZN”, January 25). Her response is disappointing.
Power rationing was an option under scrutiny to minimise the impact of power cuts on South African mines, the Minerals and Energy Affairs Department said on Tuesday. Mining companies were forced to cease operations for five days in January due to the shortage of electricity supply.
A Cape Town nurse who was detained in Saudi Arabia would soon be brought back to South Africa, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday. Dannelene Noach (54) reportedly went missing in November last year from a hospital in Riyadh.
The emergence of the Forum of Black Journalists (FBJ) indicates there are problems in the media, South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) CEO Tseliso Thipanyane said on Tuesday. ”What is going wrong in media rooms to lead to the establishment of the FBJ?” he asked at a discussion on how the media cover race and racism
The South African theatre industry needs transformation, the co-producer of the musical The Lion King, Lebo M, said on Tuesday. He expressed his thoughts following the Naledi Awards in Johannesburg on Tuesday. He said the fact that so few black South Africans won awards was a sorry indication of the role of black people in the theatre industry.
The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, on Tuesday called on Israel to stop its ”aggression” to create the right climate for negotiations as the United States sought to salvage a stalled peace effort. Abbas said ”peace and negotiations are our strategic choice” but fell short of announcing a resumption of peace talks.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela personally congratulated 23 students who were awarded the Mandela Rhodes scholarship for 2008 on Tuesday in Johannesburg. The 89-year-old Mandela slowly entered the room of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation where the students were anxiously awaiting the moment they would meet him.
Transport was the area of highest growth in the South African economy between 2004 and 2006, a Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) survey has found. This was a result of accelerated purchases of motor vehicles, Stats SA said on Tuesday in releasing its Income and Expenditure Survey for 2005/2006.
Three men convicted of killing a 15-month-old baby on her mother’s back in 2006 were each given two life sentences in the Johannesburg High Court, a media report said on Tuesday. Khensani Mtileni, 15-months-old, was killed by a stray bullet during a shoot-out between the cash-in-transit robbers and security guards