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/ 12 October 2007
It is an intriguing image. Shot among the birch trees and snow of a Siberian forest, two policemen kiss each other passionately on the lips. They hold and possibly caress each other’s buttocks. But the work by a Russian art collective has proved too much for Russia’s Culture Minister, Alexander Sokolov.
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/ 12 October 2007
A meeting between disgruntled University of Johannesburg students and management is expected to be convened on Friday, university officials said. The students has complained that the Doornfontein, Soweto and Bunting Road campuses were being sidelined when compared with the Kingsway campus.
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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
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
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
Delegates to the ANC national conference will examine the media’s role in the transformation of our country over the past 13 years. They will ask what has changed, what needs changing and what should be — if any — the political commitment of the media in a changing society.
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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.