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/ 21 September 2007
Take one historic event, add a famous political activist and make it on to the Booker Prize shortlist. Mohsin Hamid speaks to Decca Aitkenhead about his second novel.
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/ 21 September 2007
<b>COMEDY OF THE WEEK (FOR SHEER NERVE):</b> Shaun de Waal reviews the Afrikaans comedy <i>Poena Is Koning</i>
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/ 21 September 2007
Remembering the activist at the Apartheid Museum: Emilia Potenza reports.
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/ 21 September 2007
Empowerment consortium Gidani has been awarded the licence to operate the National Lottery, Trade and Industry Minister Mandisi Mpahlwa announced at a press conference on Friday afternoon. Mpahlwa had suspended the lottery on March 31, hours before operator Uthingo’s licence to run it expired.
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/ 21 September 2007
Developed countries are not living up to the promise to help alleviate poverty, hunger and under-development elsewhere, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. For example, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) estimates that only 13 countries are likely to halve extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.
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/ 21 September 2007
Full-colour advertisements placed in a number of national newspapers on Friday by the Health Department defending its Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, were a waste of taxpayers’ money, the Democratic Alliance said. The United Democratic Movement also criticised the advertisements.
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/ 21 September 2007
The price of London Brent oil hit another all-time high on Friday on United States storm concerns at the end of a record-breaking week that saw New York crude soar beyond per barrel. The price of Brent North Sea crude for November delivery surged as high as ,35 per barrel, beating Thursday’s record.
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/ 21 September 2007
Cuban leader Fidel Castro may have dropped out of sight, but his trademark green military cap is everywhere. Nearly 49 years after Castro’s socialist revolution, the Fidel cap is selling like hot cakes to tourists visiting Cuba, and more and more young Cubans are also snatching them up.
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/ 21 September 2007
At least 3 000 people led by Buddhist monks marched along flooded streets in Yangon on Friday, piling pressure on Burma’s ruling junta in the most sustained challenge to its rule in nearly 20 years. About 1 500 cinnamon-robed monks marched barefoot through the city on Friday, attracting an equal number of followers.
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/ 21 September 2007
A 19-year-old was arrested for child neglect after three of her four children were found in a cage, Limpopo police said on Friday. Spokesperson Superintendent Ronel Otto said the woman, who is seven months pregnant, was arrested on Thursday in Zebediela outside Polokwane.