Former AMLive host John Perlman has joined Johannesburg radio station KAYA FM and will present his first show “Today with John Perlman” between 6pm and 7pm on Monday. His first guest is businessman Tokyo Sexwale who has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate.
Atop Greenland’s Suicide Cliff, from where old Inuit women used to hurl themselves when they felt they had become a burden to their community, a crack and a thud like thunder pierce the air. ”We don’t have thunder here. But I know it from movies,” says Ilulissat nurse Vilhelmina Nathanielsen, who hiked with us through the melting snow.
The first time bank executive Lee Meyer strayed into South Africa’s rough Alexandra township, he spent a nervous half hour trying to get out without being attacked by local gangsters. Several years later, apartheid is over, Alexandra is safer, and Meyer is back.
Nearly 80 percent of the world’s editors and senior newsroom managers view online journalism as a ”welcome addition”, according to the 2006 Newsroom Barometre released at the World Newspaper Congress.
The newspaper business is growing despite pressure from online, Timothy Balding, chief executive officer of the World Association of Newspapers, told delegates at the World Newspaper Congress in Cape Town.
The nation is a bathtub. Oh my God, it’s brain draining! Recently I heard that somebody was publishing a piece accusing me and others of "selling out to the West". Now, I wish I could announce that I did not care, but in truth my stomach coiled for a while, guiltily.
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang will fully resume her duties on Thursday following a three-month break she took to recover from a liver transplant, the Presidency said on Tuesday. Tshabalala-Msimang is expected to deliver her department’s budget vote to the National Assembly on the same day.
The government stuck to its guns on Tuesday in the current pay dispute with public servants, saying the current salary demands of the public servants were not realistic. Public-service unions rejected a revised offer of a 6,5% pay rise by the government on Monday and are demanding a 12% rise.
Former White House aide Lewis ”Scooter” Libby was sentenced on Tuesday to 30 months in prison for perjury and obstruction in a case which also put a glaring spotlight on the flawed United States case for waging war against Iraq. Libby, formerly one of the most trusted aides to US Vice-President Dick Cheney, was convicted in March for lying to federal investigators.
Organisers of the 2012 London Olympics on Tuesday defended its newly unveiled logo following widespread public criticism that it was ”hideous” and a waste of money. The jagged emblem, based on the date 2012, was unveiled on Monday by Seb Coe, chairperson of the London 2012 organising committee.