The findings contained in the 260-page report by Kader Asmal’s ad hoc committee on the review of Chapter 9 and related institutions makes far-reaching recommendations that might require the amendment of the Constitution, the retrenchment of up to 40 commissioners and will test the political will of the executive.
I walked with Roberto Navarrete into the national stadium in Santiago, Chile. With the southern winter’s wind skating down from the Andes, it was empty and ghostly. Little had changed, he said: the chicken wire, the broken seats, the tunnel to the changing rooms from which the screams echoed. We stopped at a large number 28. ”This is where I was, facing the scoreboard. This is where I was called to be tortured.”
Here comes the No 1 gruesome invention of the century: the bra you wear 1cm under your skin, called Cup&Up. Dr Eyal Gur, head of microsurgery at the Sourasky medical centre in Tel Aviv, has thought up this ghastly procedure, and claims that droves of women are clamouring to have it done for a few thousand dollars.
I walked with Roberto Navarrete into the national stadium in Santiago, Chile. With the southern winter’s wind skating down from the Andes, it was empty and ghostly. Little had changed, he said: the chicken wire, the broken seats, the tunnel to the changing rooms from which the screams echoed. We stopped at a large number 28. ”This is where I was, facing the scoreboard. This is where I was called to be tortured.”
Presidential spokesperson Mukoni Ratshitanga wants evidence of dereliction of duty by the health minister. But the Aids-drug lobby offers only Wikipedia constitutionalism, asserting that Thabo Mbeki has fired the true architect of the country’s widely admired HIV/Aids policies, former deputy health minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, writes Ronald Suresh Roberts.
One of the most inequitable and amoral acts in modern times is happening in front of our eyes and there is hardly a murmur of protest. The multibillion-dollar bail-out of global finance after one of the most reckless periods of lending and deal-making since the late 1920s is extraordinarily one-sided.
The recent Southern African Development Community summit in Lusaka was clouded by a seven-year-old face-off between Africa and the West over Zimbabwe. And the continuing brinkmanship promises to haunt the Euro-Africa summit in Portugal and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Uganda, both of which take place later this year, writes Peter Kagwanja.
Brazilian Felipe Massa secured the fifth win of his Formula One career and the third of this season when he spearheaded a Ferrari one-two in Sunday’s Turkish Grand Prix. The victory revived his hopes of challenging for the drivers’ championship and Ferrari’s bid for the constructors’ title.
The African National Congress government is ruthlessly extracting every cent it can from former deputy minister of health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge while the health minister is spending exorbitant amounts of public money unnecessarily on helicopters to travel around the Eastern Cape, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday.
A hot-air balloon caught fire over western Canada, forcing screaming passengers to leap to the ground, some with their clothes in flames, witnesses said. Two people burned to death after being unable to jump from the balloon and 11 were seriously injured, police said on Saturday.