Australia all-rounder Andrew Symonds will face no action after he knocked over a streaker in his side’s nine-run one-day international loss to India in Brisbane on Tuesday. Robert Murray David Ogilvie stormed the field and ran towards Symonds, who shoulder-charged him to the ground.
A German man was released unharmed late on Tuesday in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, about 12 hours after he was seized by unknown gunmen who killed a driver and two soldiers, a source at his company said on Wednesday. The source at Julius Berger, a German-Nigerian construction group, said no ransom was paid for the German hostage.
The council of the University of the Free State must ”go” because they do not want to transform, the African National Congress chairperson in the province, Ace Magashule, said on Tuesday. ”I cannot agree with those people who want to say everything at the University of the Free State was still fine,” Magashule said.
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”I am shocked to learn from ‘A democracy of untouchables’ (February 8) that Independent Communications Authority of South Africa councillor Robert Nkuna was involved in drafting the African National Congress’s proposal for a print-media tribunal,” writes the Democratic Alliance’s Dene Smuts.
John Aitchison writes an open letter to Minister of Education Naledi Pandor on his unpleasant experiences after being appointed to a ministerial committee on literacy in January 2006. He was appointed lead writer of the committee’s report, which was approved by the Cabinet in November 2006.
Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh Kambakhsh is a young journalism student at the University of Balkh in northern Afghanistan. A few weeks ago, he was sentenced to death for blasphemy after a summary trial in which he had no legal representation and no opportunity to defend himself.
If there is one product on the supermarket shelves that is sold on packaging alone, it is bottled water. Identical in content and taste, the only real difference between competing brands is the marketing value of the label. You’d be hard pressed to differentiate between French, Belgian and British water in a blind taste test.
South Africa’s tap water is of the highest quality, yet we consumed 260-million litres of bottled water in 2006. It takes three litres of water to bottle one litre of water in South Africa, and a litre of mineral water generates 600 times more carbon dioxide than a litre of tap water, not to mention the fossil fuels used in production and shipping.
Scientists are measuring carbon-dioxide emissions, air temperatures, sea-ice loss and the much more complex effects on birds, rainforest trees and coral reefs. We know that climate-change-related events are killing people, yet there is no comprehensive global monitoring programme to document the lives lost because of climate change.
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.