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/ 28 November 2007
Oil fell below a barrel on Wednesday, pinching some of Asia’s top resource stocks, while nagging fears that a credit market squeeze will sap global growth weighed on the dollar and the region’s exporters. News that top United States bank, Citigroup, got a ,5-billion capital injection from Abu Dhabi’s investment arm on Tuesday buoyed US stocks.
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/ 28 November 2007
Zimbabwe’s government newspaper offered a chilly, racially tinged welcome on Tuesday to the new United States envoy. The Herald‘s political editor Caesar Zvayi said James McGee had criticised Zimbabwe’s human rights record in statements to the US Senate and, as an appointee of US President George Bush, was likely ”to turn out to be the house Negro”.
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/ 28 November 2007
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf stepped down as army chief on Wednesday and will be sworn in as a civilian leader for a second five-year term on Thursday. Musharraf passed the baton of command to his hand-picked successor, General Ashfaq Kayani, at a ceremony at army headquarters in Rawalpindi.
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/ 28 November 2007
<i>The Media</i> magazine launches a brand-new website in January which is set to become the leading source of media news, debate and opinion. “TheMediaOnline will become the number one hub of information for our dynamic and fast-growing industry,” says Sandra Gordon, owner of Wag the Dog which publishes the monthly business-to-business magazine <i>The Media</i>.
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/ 28 November 2007
The Limpopo-based Capricorn FM went on air this week, one of three new radio stations that received their broadcasting licences earlier this year. “We’ve been doing test runs since last week and we officially launched at 6am on Monday morning,” said Capricorn FM marketing manager Jerry Ramodike.
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/ 28 November 2007
Pay-TV newcomer Telkom Media has purchased a 49 percent shareholding in a Namibian free-to-air channel called One Africa Television. “Linking up with other free-to-air operators in Africa has benefits for advertisers as we are expanding the potential advertising customer base,” said Telkom Media CEO Mandla Ngcobo.<
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/ 28 November 2007
When patients hear they have Aids, their first reaction often is to think they have been given the death sentence. But, between the disease and dying lies a grey area, and that’s when palliative caregivers are most needed by patients. Palliative care aims to relieve the suffering and improve the quality of life of patients with life-threatening illnesses.
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/ 28 November 2007
Increasing international cooperation in exchange for guns and improving the sense of domestic security are promising strategies for reducing the number of small weapons in the hands of civilians in developing countries, a leading expert on the matter says. Keith Krause, programme director of the Small Arms Survey, says that taking weapons from civilians in developing countries is the toughest part of cutting down on the number of small arms around the world.
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/ 28 November 2007
With her unkempt hair tucked into a woolen hat, a faded T-shirt, skirt and a pair of torn canvas shoes, Nokhuthula Tshuma* does not fit the stereotypical profile of a commercial sex worker. Yet, the mother of three, like thousands of impoverished Zimbabwean women, is at great risk of HIV/Aids infection.
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/ 28 November 2007
Doctors have long argued about the health effects of coffee, but its reputation seems poised to receive a boost thanks to a flavoured condom that aims to encourage safer sex in Ethiopia. About 300 000 of the coffee condoms were sold in a week when they were launched in September.