International choreographer Emio Greco tells Matthew Krouse that local dance must free itself from social themes.
Many drivers don’t realise that should their car be involved in an accident due to lack of maintenance, their insurer is unlikely to pay out. "The insured must take all reasonable steps to safeguard the vehicle from loss and damage and maintain it in an efficient condition at all times to remain covered," says the head of Santam’s claims administrative services.
The Cape Town city council will prepare for Green Point to host a 2010 Soccer World Cup semifinal match in the hope that the national government will deliver on its financial promises. ”We accept in good faith the national government’s commitment to these costs, but we need to know for sure before we sign the final contracts,” mayor Helen Zille said on Thursday.
The African National Congress has condemned the killing of two police officers in Langa, Cape Town, on Wednesday, and called on anyone with information to come forward so that justice can be done. ”We hope the perpetrators of this crime will be brought to book and be removed from society,” ANC provincial secretary Mcebisi Skwatsha said on Thursday.
Knowledge of available treatment options and the significance of drug resistance has declined in patients infected with HIV, the virus that causes Aids, according to results of a survey presented on Tuesday. ”In the early days of HIV, patients often understood the science of HIV as much as most clinicians,” said Dr Howard Grossman.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair was on Sunday night seeking to orchestrate concerted European pressure to prod a reluctant France into bigger cuts in farm protection as stalled global trade talks entered a make-or-break two weeks. The French president said the summit was not the venue for trade talks and insisted that the G8 should confine itself to an annual -billion package of aid.
The Harare government is to meet Russian energy officials this week to discuss energy investment in Zimbabwe’s power sector, Zim Online reported on Monday. It said officials from Russia’s TurboEngineering firm were expected to arrive in Harare on Sunday night.
It was a soothing stroll in King’s Park for what was little more than a Manchester United reserve team as Orlando Pirates suffered a humbling and humiliating 4-0 Vodacom Challenge defeat in Durban on Saturday afternoon. From as early as the third minute when Norwegian international striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer ended a three-year, injury-plagued scoring drought, with the first of two first-half goals for The Red Devils
The South African government should investigate the disappearance of Pakistani national Khalid Mehmood Rashid, Amnesty International said on Friday. In a letter to President Thabo Mbeki, Amnesty International expressed concern that South African government officials may have participated in the ”enforced disappearance and the return of the Pakistani national”.
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress had initially stopped glorifying politicians in place names — like airports — but had now turned the clock back to the days of the National Party (NP) with the proposed renaming of the Johannesburg International airport, said official opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon in his weekly internet column <i>SA Today</i> on Friday.