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/ 17 October 2007
Gingerly touching the bruises on her forehead, Enkhmaa — a middle-aged mother and illegal gold miner — explains why she is afraid to go out on the street with a green plastic bowl. Three days earlier, she says, the Mongolian police seized, beat and imprisoned her for wandering too close to a foreign-owned mine.
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/ 17 October 2007
The 2007 Partnership in International Management (PIM) conference takes place in Johannesburg from October 24 to 26 and is being hosted by Wits Business School. ”It is a milestone for Wits Business School, as well as a milestone for the continent of Africa,” said Professor Mthuli Ncube, the director of the business school.
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/ 17 October 2007
When the University of the North (Unin) and the Medical University of Southern Africa (Medunsa) merged to create the University of Limpopo (UL), the new institution was bound to inherit both the strengths and weaknesses of its constituting parts.
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/ 17 October 2007
There seems to be a baby boom at the moment. People are having babies all over the place, which is fabulous if you adore babies in general, but not so fabulous if you’re not that keen on them, unless they’re yours or closely related, then you can gaze adoringly at the little miracles for ever. I find that 10 minutes admiring the dinky little fingers and heavenly widgy face and saying, “What a lovely baby”, is about enough for me.
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/ 16 October 2007
Last year I had the difficult responsibility of addressing a memorial service at AngloGold’s Tau Tona mine, where five miners perished under the rocks. The recovery process was drawn out and emotionally tormenting. I kept imagining the grim faces of the families. At such times my imagination is not driven by a scavenging process that seeks a target to blame, writes Frans Baleni.
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/ 16 October 2007
This is no time for panic, or for manic depression of the sort that Xolela Mangcu displayed in a column last weekend. This is politics, not rugby — so the national state of mind should be governed by clear-headed questions, not by the hyperbole of triumph and disaster. We must keep a sense of perspective.
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/ 16 October 2007
Western Cape police and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Tuesday scoffed at claims that police are about to arrest Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya and deputy managing editor Jocelyn Maker. ”We wish to state that there is no truth in reports that [they] will be arrested and/or be brought before court this week,” NPA spokesperson Tlali Tlali said.
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/ 16 October 2007
A senior Fifa official gave his seal of approval on Tuesday to South Africa’s preparations for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, playing down concerns about stadium construction after a recent strike. ”I am satisfied with the general preparations,” Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke said.
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/ 16 October 2007
The ”crisis” caused by proposed fee hikes at two Johannesburg universities this month should be handled by the Ministry of Education, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Tuesday. ”We urge the Ministry of Education to intervene in the current negotiations at the University of Johannesburg and Wits,” Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven said.
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/ 16 October 2007
Libya, Vietnam and Burkina Faso were on Tuesday elected to non-permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council for the years 2008/09. The three countries were unopposed and obtained the required two-thirds majority of votes in favour from the 192-member UN General Assembly.