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/ 5 November 2007
Koni Media Holdings on Sunday denied government involvement in its bid to take over media and entertainment company Johncom. ”Koni Media strongly denies any involvement of the Presidency or any other government structures in its bid for a 100% stake in Johncom,” said group CEO Groovin Nchabeleng.
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/ 5 November 2007
The United States and Britain are on Monday expected to demand that Pakistan’s President, Pervez Musharraf, honour pledges to hold elections in the next two months and step down as the army chief, or face a cut in Western support. The diplomatic showdown will come in the form of a meeting in Islamabad between the Pakistani leader and a group of ambassadors.
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/ 5 November 2007
Merrill Lynch parted company this week with its CE, Stan O’Neal, leaving the investment bank’s leadership in a state of limbo and prompting unease on Wall Street. Merrill announced that O’Neal had decided to retire with immediate effect after agreeing with the board that a change in leadership would "best enable Merrill Lynch to move forward".
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/ 5 November 2007
Hazel Friedman, of the <i>Special Assignment</i> current affairs show on SABC 3, walked away with a R100,000 cash prize as overall winner of the Vodacom Journalist of The Year 2007 competition in Midrand on Sunday evening.
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/ 5 November 2007
South Africa will push for greater exports and trade liberalisation in the coming years, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel told Parliament on Tuesday in his medium-term budget policy speech. In particular, the textiles and clothing and motor vehicle sector tariffs have come under attack.
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/ 5 November 2007
This is a side of life the Burmese military junta might prefer you did not see: girls who appear to be 13 and 14 years old paraded in front of customers at a nightclub where a beauty contest thinly veils child prostitution. Tottering in stiletto heels and miniskirts, young teenage girls criss-crossed the dance-floor as part of a nightly "modelling" show at the Asia Entertainment City nightclub on a recent evening in Rangoon.
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/ 5 November 2007
To hear George W Bush and Dick Cheney tell it, Iranians live under the boot of a monolithic dictatorship run by fanatics. But while political repression is ever-present in mullahdom, an increasingly vibrant debate ahead of parliamentary elections next March is giving the lie to the White House’s totalitarian parodies.
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/ 5 November 2007
The campaign against Aids in South Africa has suffered several blows in recent years — from confusion about whether Aids is a virus or a syndrome to the infamous post-coital anti-Aids shower and by way of several job lots of dodgy condoms — which are key to the fight against the spread of the virus, writes Warren Foster.
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/ 5 November 2007
Public restrooms have become an unexpected source of controversy in the United States as experts argue over how the ever-essential destination can avoid discriminating by class or sex. ”In the US, but also in many other parts of the world — including India … issues having to do with human waste are taboo from public discussion. It is a last frontier,” said Harvey Molotch, a professor of cultural analysis at New York University.
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/ 4 November 2007
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The characteristics and qualities needed for leadership in the ANC have been much discussed by many inside and outside the party, including in forums such as the Mail & Guardian. Never before has an organisation received such wide-ranging advice. So, in a biblical sense, Kugqityiwe (it is finished). Fortunately for us the best of these qualities are to be found among many ANC women and men.