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/ 15 November 2007
The man at the centre of the so-called “hoax email” trial claims he will either be framed or assassinated before the start of the ANC’s national conference in December. Muzi Kunene spoke to the Mail & Guardian on Tuesday — a day before he was shot in the hand by a gunman on a street in Pretoria.
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/ 14 November 2007
The 2007 Community ÂSurvey conducted by Statistics South Africa gives an impressive account of our developmental progress, concluding that ”today is better than yesterday”. The survey also makes it clear that our society is undergoing massive changes. From the most intimate relations to the most abstract levels of social interaction, communities are in flux.
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/ 14 November 2007
I’m taking a walk through Johannesburg Zoo in the late afternoon. It’s been a quiet day, I’m in a lazy mood and comfy clothes. Fog is rolling in from across the lake, light is draining out of the sky and the people out of the place. In the near distance around the darkening park, the tops of city blocks are lost in the soft, grey suckling of low rainclouds.
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/ 14 November 2007
Pakistani opposition parties tried to forge a united front on Wednesday against military President Pervez Musharraf who insisted a state of emergency was necessary for fair elections. United States ally Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, declared emergency rule in nuclear-armed Pakistan on November 3.
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/ 14 November 2007
Chevron, the number-two United States oil company, has agreed to pay -million to resolve criminal and civil liabilities related to procurement of oil under the United Nations oil-for-food programme, US prosecutors said on Wednesday. Chevron will not be prosecuted and will continue to cooperate with investigators, they said.
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/ 14 November 2007
Scientists said on Wednesday they had created the world’s first cloned embryo from a monkey, in work that could spur cloning of human cells for use in medical research. In a paper published online by the journal Nature, a United States-led team said it had created cloned embryos from rhesus macaques.
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/ 14 November 2007
France was plunged into travel chaos for the second time in a month on Wednesday as striking railway unions staged a show of strength against the economic reforms of President Nicolas Sarkozy. Nationwide fewer than one-quarter of trains were running normally — and only 90 out 700 TGV fast trains.
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/ 14 November 2007
A medical-aid scheme for cats and dogs has been launched, the company behind the initiative said on Wednesday. ”It’s hard enough for us as humans to wade through the multitude of options available to us from the various medical-aid offerings, so a simple one for dogs and cats is as essential for their owners,” Medipet SA said.
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/ 14 November 2007
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The Sandton branch of the African National Congress (ANC) has not drawn up or endorsed any list of desired candidates for ANC leadership positions due to be determined later this year. The branch responded on Wednesday to a City Press article published this week that alleged the party had created such a list.