Coca-Cola said on Tuesday it will reduce the amount of water used to produce its beverages and put more effort into recycling the water it uses in manufacturing. Coke, which along with its bottlers used 290-billion litres of water for beverage production last year, said it would make a -million commitment to the WWF.
New Zealand flanker Jerry Collins has recovered from a heel injury and will take his place in the pack for the second Test against France in Wellington on Saturday. All Blacks coach Graham Henry made six changes to the side that routed the inexperienced French party 42-11 at Auckland’s Eden Park last weekend.
No country in the world has been able to flout international law as much as Israel in the four decades since the Six Day War. Speaking at a reception for Arab ambassadors posted to Pretoria, South Africa’s Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad said the international community had failed the Palestinian people by not putting an end to the occupation of their land.
Businessman Tokyo Sexwale confirmed he had been lobbied by African National Congress (ANC) members to stand as party president but said he had not yet decided whether to do so. ”I’m not in the running yet because I told you there’s no track,” Sexwale told veteran broadcaster John Perlman.
United States President George Bush on Monday flew to Europe where he will confront Russian President Vladimir Putin over US plans to base a new missile defence system in former Russian satellite countries. Bush and Putin are set for a showdown at the G8 summit in Germany where they are due to hold bilateral talks.
The plight of overworked Japanese employees was highlighted at the weekend when it emerged that a policeman had stabbed himself in the stomach and tried to make it look like an assault so that he could take time off work. Tomoyuki Mukaide had worked for two months without a break after an earthquake that struck Ishikawa prefecture in north-west Japan.
It was Moshe Dayan, the hero of Israel’s 1967 victory, who set the tone for what was to follow: "We are waiting for a telephone call," the one-eyed general said disdainfully as the frontline Arab states — Egypt, Jordan and Syria — reeled from their crushing defeat.
Across Southern Africa today men, women and children are being deceived. Struggling to survive in situations of destitution, they are promised jobs that seem to offer life-lines, but merely mark the beginning of their exploitation. These people are victims of one of the most chilling aspects of contemporary migration — human trafficking.
Soon Parliament will enact the long awaited Sexual Offences Bill. The legislation aims to afford complainants "the maximum and least traumatising protection that the law can provide". Unfortunately, it seems the Bill has lost track of its objectives. Apart from introducing provisions that enable rape victims to receive post-exposure prophylaxis, the Bill does not do much to reduce secondary victimisation of rape complainants.
As the Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) began three days of public hearings on health services, based on a nine-province review, one of its most shocking findings is that poor patients are effectively being excluded from healthcare if they can’t afford to pay for transport.