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/ 10 December 2007
In a class action suit that recalls the Treatment Action Campaign’s battle to access free antiretrovirals, the residents of Phiri in Soweto have instituted legal proceedings against the City of Johannesburg. They are challenging the installation of prepaid meters in March 2004 and the decision of the city on the amount of water allocated free to the city’s poor residents.
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/ 10 December 2007
It takes one bad leader, or leader turned bad, to destroy a country. It takes generations to rebuild. To add to Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s words of wisdom, it is not just about choosing a leader who we will not be ashamed of, it is about us choosing a leader who will not roll back the fragile gains that we have made, including gender equality, writes Colleen Lowe Morna.
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/ 9 December 2007
In the early 1970s, when the ANC underground machinery was exposed and threatened with decimation and outstanding leaders such as Harry Gwala and others were sentenced to Robben Island, the ANC instructed Jacob Zuma to go into exile and lead a team to revive structures in KwaZulu-Natal
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/ 9 December 2007
As ANC members seek to convince one another on presidential and other choices, it is critical to weigh the implications of our preferences. Needless to say, we are duty-bound to accept the outcome; and we should today psychologically also accept that one or the other candidate will win, writes Joel Netshitenzhe.
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/ 9 December 2007
Does anybody know if Hindu fanatics have ever started a protest over Yogi Bear?
It might surprise you that I’m on the side of the Sudanese nutters who thought it was a big deal to name a teddy bear Mohammed. It’s not the greatest name for a teddy. If teddies weren’t so busy being adorable, they’d be up in fluffy arms too, writes Lev David.
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/ 9 December 2007
It hardly required a soothsayer to forecast the goalless draw in the Premier League game between ”goalless-draw champions” Santos and Kaizer Chiefs at a windswept Athlone Stadium on Sunday evening. ”We played against the wind in the first half,” complained Chiefs coach Muhsin Ertugral afterwards, ”and could not master it”.
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/ 9 December 2007
Like King Midas who turned everything he touched into gold, James Chamanga turned everything he touched into goals during Moroka Swallows’ emphatic 6-2 Premier League victory over a hapless Platinum Stars at the Germiston Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
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/ 9 December 2007
Nasa cancelled its second launch attempt of space shuttle Atlantis after a sensor in an emergency engine cutoff system failed again on Sunday, once more delaying Europe’s major contribution to the International Space Station. Atlantis and its seven astronauts are due to deliver Europe’s Columbus science laboratory module to the space station.
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/ 9 December 2007
Most African leaders on Sunday rejected new trade deals demanded by the European Union, dealing a blow to efforts to forge a new economic partnership at the first European Union (EU)-Africa summit in seven years. The EU wants to replace expiring trade accords with so-called Economic Partnership Agreements or temporary deals.
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/ 9 December 2007
A suicide bomber killed three people, including a policeman, in an attack on a police checkpost in the volatile Swat valley in north-west Pakistan on Sunday, the military said. The attack came a day after the military said it had cleared the Swat valley, a former top tourist destination, of most militants.