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/ 26 October 2007
The trouble with helping street children is that the problem sometimes looks like a bottomless pit that eats resources, but never seems to deliver any results. Yet, as the problem escalates on the streets of Johannesburg, the option of simply not helping does not exist.
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/ 26 October 2007
SABC board chairman Eddie Funde has called for an increase in government funding and a drastic reduction in commercial funding of the public broadcaster. “It’s very unusual for the public broadcaster to be 80 percent commercially funded,” Funde told reporters on Thursday morning.
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/ 26 October 2007
Most magazines on the market offer either business insight or lifestyle information. The new women’s magazine, <i>Destiny</i>, attempts to combine both. Founding editor Khanyi Dhlomo, who previously edited <i>True Love</i> magazine, said she explored several ideas while doing an MBA at Harvard.
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/ 26 October 2007
In the past, ousted tyrants would expect to spend the rest of their waning years in comfortable exile, oblivious to the insidious reach of international law, tribunals and justice. This is slowly changing, however, as rampant corruption, plunder of mineral wealth and genocide with impunity has finally garnered the attention and ire of the world.
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/ 26 October 2007
The only green reference in the budget was Finance Minister Trevor Manuel bemoaning the fact that it did not contain a pro-environment stance. He indicated that he was looking for his colleagues in the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism to play the lead role and promised that the next Budget would include a green component.
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/ 26 October 2007
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South Africa confronts a central political dilemma: how to advance redress to deal with historical injustice while simultaneously building a single national cosmopolitan identity. This is the defining element of the national question. Attempts were made to grapple with this issue at the ANC’s national general council meeting in 2005 and the party’s policy conference last year, but the outcomes were unsatisfactory on both occasions.
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/ 26 October 2007
Saeed Jalili, who replaced Ali Larijani as Iran’s top nuclear negotiator at the weekend, is a man of strong moral views who believes spiritual values should inform political actions. His absolute conviction of the rightness of Iran’s cause, and his loyalty to his old friend, Iran’s hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, may make him an awkward interlocutor in nuclear talks with the European Union in Rome.
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/ 26 October 2007
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has rejected an application by the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) to subpoena the transcript of proceedings of the Sisulu Commission of Inquiry into alleged blacklisting at the SABC. The move prompted a sharp response from FXI executive director Jane Duncan, who said she was disappointed by the decision.
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/ 26 October 2007
Polish democracy grew up on Sunday, when the country’s voters rejected the strident, xenophobic nationalism of Jaroslav Kaczynski. The election mattered not just because it was the first time a generation born after 1989 could vote. Nor because liberal conservative winner Donald Tusk won the strongest mandate of any prime minister in the post-communist era.
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/ 26 October 2007
The appointment of veteran Democratic Alliance (DA) politician Douglas Gibson as ambassador to Thailand signals a thawing in relations between the DA and the ruling party, a senior African National Congress MP told the Mail & Guardian recently. Gibson tended to confirm this reading.