An identification system linked to a website and more publicity on indigent burial is needed for the hundreds of unclaimed bodies in Gauteng state mortuaries, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday. DA health spokesperson Jack Bloom said there were now 607 unclaimed bodies in mortuaries.
A ”huge contingent” of Johannesburg metro police will direct traffic in the central city on Monday for a march by metal and engineering workers. ”We are preparing for 22 000 demonstrators,” said chief superintendent Wayne Minnaar on Monday morning.
Zimbabwean police have arrested more than 1Â 300 shop owners and business executives for defying the government’s orders to reduce prices. President Robert Mugabe’s government, concerned by rocketing prices that could trigger social unrest, had ordered shops and businesses to reduce their prices to levels used on June 18, or face arrest.
Nantucket is classic New England: sailing ships, cobblestone streets, grey shingle cottages with white trim, clam-chowder competitions — and class warfare. The latest outbreak is over a proposal by the island’s super-rich residents to try to hold back the Atlantic, which threatens to send their coastline mansions toppling.
Women in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, world-famous for its ferocious bull-running festival, are demanding their own version complete with cows instead of bulls. A student website set the ball rolling with its campaign ”Cows want to run” which asks for a separate encierro where only women are allowed to take part.
A debate is intensifying inside the White House over whether President George Bush should try to prevent more Republican defections by announcing intentions for a gradual withdrawal of troops from high-casualty Iraqi areas, the New York Times said on Monday.
Pride and revenge are on Tom Boonen’s agenda when the second stage of the Tour de France takes the peloton from Dunkirk to Ghent on Monday. The stage is expected to end in another bunch sprint and having been beaten into third by Robbie McEwen in Sunday’s first stage, Boonen needs to shine in his home country.
As 4X4 wagons go, I’ve had two favourites for the past year or so. The Toyota Fortuner and GM’s Hummer H3 appeal to me because they offer acceptable comfort levels, genuine off-road capabilities and are relatively well-priced. Just about everything else is either too fancy and expensive to take into the bush, or inadequate for really serious use off-road, writes Gavin Foster.
As I write this, Father’s Day is drawing to a close and I can’t help but think how different it all could have been if I’d had access to Audi’s new S3 back in November 1974. Back then, I naively believed that taking up motorcycle racing would render me irresistible to sexually unfulfilled young women, writes Gavin Foster.
You trundle along through your daily activities — drive to work, drive home, drive to gym, drive home — and you never really consider how much time you spend behind the steering wheel of your car. That is until you find a vehicle that’s not completely manic in nature, but stirs the senses enough to make you realise that it’s not about getting from Point A to Point B anymore.