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/ 12 October 2007
A bomb killed a child and wounded 13 others in a playground as they celebrated the Islamic festival of Eid on Friday in the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmato, police said. Police Colonel Abbas Mohammed said a would-be suicide bomber hid the explosives in a cart he was pushing that was filled with children’s toys.
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/ 12 October 2007
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If this World Cup has taught us anything it is that too much preparation can be stifling. It is plain madness to spend four years preparing for a tournament that might be decided by the whim of a referee. The moral is: empower the team you have and remind them that the World Cup is an adventure, not a destination.
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/ 12 October 2007
Zimbabwe’s agricultural production is poised to plummet further amid revelations that the country has secured less than 5% of the agricultural sector’s fuel requirements for the 2007/08 season. In a development likely to hurt the key tobacco sub-sector, only 9-million litres of fuel have been acquired by cash-strapped Harare authorities.
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/ 12 October 2007
South Africans stand back and passively watch the gravity-defying drop in public standards at our peril. One instance is the Judicial Service Commission’s decision to let off Cape Judge President John Hlophe with a slap on the wrist for conduct grossly unbecoming such a senior judge. One instance is the Judicial Service Commission’s decision to let off Cape Judge President John Hlophe with a slap on the wrist for conduct grossly unbecoming such a senior judge.
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/ 12 October 2007
Corruption, political violence, "godfather" politics and general impunity threaten the stability of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and the world’s sixth-largest oil producer, a 100-page report released recently by the international NGO Human Rights Watch warns.
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/ 12 October 2007
A smokeless tobacco product, known as snus, is touted as being 90% less harmful than cigarettes, says a tobacco company, but anti-smoking activists aren’t convinced. Snus is finely ground moist tobacco, usually sold in small teabag-like sachets, that are placed under the upper lip against the gum.
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/ 12 October 2007
Zehir Omar, the lawyer acting for Khalid Rashid, has applied for leave to appeal to Pretoria’s High Court. Rashid is the Pakistani whose disappearance in 2005 initiated court proceedings challenging the government’s claim that it did not facilitate an extraordinary rendition as part of the ”war on terror”. Minister of Home Affairs Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula claimed to have deported Rashid in the normal course of business.
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/ 12 October 2007
A top legal academic has dismissed as ”a red herring” suggestions that suspended National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Vusi Pikoli has jeopardised South Africa’s national security interests by indemnifying and plea-bargaining with criminals in exchange for their testimony.
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/ 12 October 2007
The IFP goes to its 32nd annual general conference on Saturday to take stock of its declining fortunes and formulate a turnaround strategy to wrest back control of KwaZulu-Natal in the 2009 general elections. The conference is important for party president Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who is battling to stifle debate over the succession debacle in his party amid hushed calls by reformists in the youth wing.
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/ 12 October 2007
One of the ANC’s historically powerful provinces, Gauteng, goes to Polokwane with diminished voting power after failed efforts to grow the party from where it was five years ago. Gauteng will be taking fewer delegates to the conference than it did in 2002, when the ANC held its elective conference in Stellenbosch.