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/ 6 December 2007
On radio this week President Thabo Mbeki described the ANC leadership race as "a model of democracy in motion". As with many of his lofty pronouncements, no one in South Africa believes him. All the signs are that the ANC is in the grip of a kind of collective madness, in which almost any campaign tactic is seen as justified.
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/ 6 December 2007
America’s highest court on Wednesday held what is expected to be the pivotal case on the future of the United States prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where more than 300 foreigners accused of being terrorists are detained. The Supreme Court judges listened to arguments from the Bush administration and lawyers representing the detainees.
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/ 5 December 2007
…Two areas of new interest are in the fields of business magazines and technology. Business Today, Business World, the Economic Times, and Technocrat, launched fairly recently, are doing well … Bhutan, with less than 1 million population, can now boast of publishing its own national newspaper.
Authors: Anju Chaudhary and Anne Chen, in the book Global Journalism.
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/ 5 December 2007
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The outcome of the African National Congress’s (ANC) leadership contest is up to its membership and the contest should not be seen in a negative light, President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday. The people nominated were ”not nominated because they are enemies”, and should not treat one another as such.
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/ 5 December 2007
A reported spat between Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya and Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota was an indication of how the divisions within the African National Congress (ANC) were running through the Cabinet, a political analyst said on Wednesday.
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/ 5 December 2007
President Hugo Chávez said on Wednesday his push to have Venezuela accept sweeping constitutional reforms has ”not finished” despite being rejected in a weekend referendum. ”The discussion on the transformation of the state is not finished,” he told state VTV television.
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/ 5 December 2007
Johannes Heesters, the world’s oldest stage performer, turned 104 in Berlin on Wednesday, with the Dutch-born operetta singer set to do a birthday special in the evening in a city theatre. Heesters kept to his habit of rising late and breakfasting on cappuccino while phone calls of congratulation had to wait, his wife said.
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/ 5 December 2007
The Erasmus Commission of Inquiry probing Cape Town’s ”spy saga” is calling for public submissions on the matter. The commission, headed by Judge Nathan Erasmus, has already started studying all available documentation relating to the issue, commission secretary Zithulele Twala said on Wednesday.
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/ 5 December 2007
The South African National Editors’ Forum has welcomed the withdrawal of criminal charges laid by police against a journalist who was arrested while covering a car accident in Lenasia on Tuesday. The journalist was covering an accident involving a police truck transporting prisoners when he was arrested by police.
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/ 5 December 2007
Nationwide is hopeful it could have a plane in the air on Friday, the company said on Wednesday. ”That’s what we’re hoping, but it’s not guaranteed,” said Nationwide spokeswoman Charmaine Thome. ”We don’t want to get people’s hopes up.” If possible, a plane would fly to London on Friday, she said.