”Skorokoro”, ”Tata ma chance”, ”Going nowhere slowly” and ”Laduma!” — these are the four environmental scenarios facing South Africa, says the consultancy at the forefront of the government-commissioned report, South Africa Environment Outlook. The report found that the country’s land, atmosphere, marine areas, inland water and biodiversity are already in extremely poor shape.
”If you remove the South African context, BEE is really about a company being a responsible citizen in the environment in which it operates,” says Andile Tlhoaele. ”In South Africa, we incentivise you for doing that.” Tlhoaele, the chief executive of verification agency Inforcomm, a director of the Association of BEE Verification Agencies and a member of the ICT Charter steering committee, is unsurprisingly bullish on BEE.
Dissident General Laurent Nkunda likes to think of himself as a saviour. This might explain why, as we drive to church on Saturday morning, his security detail includes not only standard issue Kalashnikovs and RPGs, but also a keyboard and eight hymn-singing soldiers.
It’s not just Bin Laden’s deputy turning up on channel as-Sahab last week promising to pulverise the United Kingdom’s honours committee for knighting Salman Rushdie, nor the self-same Ayman al-Zawahiri vowing revenge over the Red Mosque a couple of days later.
Five years is not such a long time for the armies that eyeball each other along the demilitarised zone cutting the Korean peninsula in half. Their guns have been on a hair trigger for more than five decades. In fact, the frozen battlelines are such a feature of the landscape that part of them is now a Cold War theme park.
Tokyo Sexwale’s star is on the rise. He has secured a foothold in at least four major provinces where senior party leaders have been lobbying for his election as ANC president. A “national coordinating committee”, led by Gauteng finance minister Paul Mashatile and national executive committee member Enoch Godongwana, has been meeting once a month since Sexwale announced in May that he would be available for nomination.
Placed fifth in the recently-completed Premiership log, Tottenham Hotspur provided scant evidence of challenging the big four of English soccer for major honours in the coming season while completing a comfortable enough 2-1 victory over Kaizer Chiefs in the opening Vodacom Challenge game.
Sergio Garcia was on the cusp of his first win in a major on Sunday taking a three shot advantage into the final round of the British Open. Only 40-year-old American Steve Stricker could keep anywhere close to the Spaniard and he needed a course-record equalling 64 on Saturday to do that.
The man allegedly behind bizarre internet sex claims against prominent South Africans will probably be transferred from Kroonstad to Cape Town sometime this week, said police. Juan Duval Uys (39) was arrested at the home he shared with his mother in Kroonstad on Saturday after a months-long investigation.
All Blacks selectors sprung two surprises in the World Cup squad announced on Sunday with the recall of Andy Ellis and Sione Lauaki at the expense of Piri Weepu and Troy Flavell. Richie McCaw will captain the squad in which selectors have gone for a 16 forwards, 14 backs split, but only named a 29-man squad.