US lawmakers joined the chorus of criticism on Thursday of the European Union decision imposing a record fine and other sanctions on Microsoft for antitrust violations.
The political party founded by Côte d’Ivoire’s slain former military ruler General Robert Guei, the Union for Democracy and Peace in Côte d’Ivoire, decided on Thursday to pull its two ministers out of the government, its secretary-general, Alassane Salif N’Diaye, said.
"Bob Marley was great, but we all know that. Even if you don’t like reggae, you can’t ignore the fact that his music had an uplifting effect upon the music-loving world". Benjamin Zephaniah has worshipped Bob Marley since childhood. But as another ‘best of’ is released, he says it’s time to leave brother Bob alone.
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It is hard to imagine a person in a greater state of elation than an artist who has just released an album. This is probably because, as this month’s hottest pop exponent, Thandiswa Mazwai puts it, it is a "labour of love". Mazwai is leaving kwaito behind her to explore her Xhosa genealogy, writes Thebe Mabanga.
‘I am not a one-trick pony," Nelly Furtado sings on <i>One-Trick Pony</i>, the opening track of <i>Folklore</i> (Universal), the follow-up to her hit debut album Whoa Nelly!. And one has to agree wholeheartedly, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
Following this week’s approval by South Africa’s competition authorities, global energy group ExxonMobil and South Africa’s Engen Petroleum will be teaming up in a lubricants deal, under which Engen becomes the sole marketer and distributor of a range of ExxonMobil’s lubricants in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland.
”Apartheid Israel can be defeated, just as apartheid in South Africa was defeated,” Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former president of the African National Congress Women’s League, said on Thursday. She described the killing of the leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, as a ”cowardly act that took the life of a brave hero”.
The South African government is reconsidering its proposals for the royalty that will be effective for the gold mining industry, Treasury chief director of tax policy Martin Grote has confirmed. The royalty on gold mining would remain an ad valorem or revenue-based one, he added.
An al-Qaeda operative told the Italian police that his unit had been poised to carry out mass murder at the main Milan railway terminus, possibly before the September 11 attacks, the newspaper Corriere della Sera reported on Thursday.