Recently I have been looking like a King Kong tribute act — I am hairy, very hairy — as part of a journey to learn to love my body hair. I’ve been growing everything for a comedy documentary about hairy women. My friends don’t understand why I am doing it. I told them it’s for the money but really it is for the challenge, writes Shazia Mirza.
A newly released 300-page report on policing in South Africa has shed new light on the strengths and weaknesses of the South African Police Service (SAPS), highlighting, among other things, racially skewed service provision, uneven responses to crime and the lack of internal police corruption-busting mechanisms.
In February last year, Britain’s Prime Minister, Tony Blair, wrote an article titled The World Must Judge Us on Africa. This moralistic statement followed his decision to make African development a key objective of Britain’s 2005 presidency of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised countries and the European Union.
Spent tea leaves were etched into the raw blisters on his face when they found him. Villagers believe the urn of scalding tea the Burmese soldiers tipped over Mu Kay’s head killed him. But the betel-nut farmer (57) more likely bled to death, shot point-blank in both thighs.
A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state, is causing alarm across the western alliance, with Nato urgently examining the offensive and its implications. investigate and to help the Estonians beef up their electronic defences.
There are occasional lulls in the fighting, but the taxi factions in the Western Cape seem unable to reach a permanent ceasefire. In the past two weeks there has been a spate of violent deaths and injuries as a result of attacks as the ongoing battle between the Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association and the Congress of Democratic Taxi Associations escalates once again, this time over the coveted Bellville-Kraaifontein route.
Recently something truly amazing happened. Paris Hilton, the United States’s first name in famous-for-being-famous, got her come-uppance: the heiress was sentenced to 45 days in jail for driving without a licence and thus violating the terms of her probation in a drivingĂ‚Â-under-the-influence incident. In
Transcendental meditation does not appear in any government guidelines for handling tertiary mergers, but it seems to work for University of Johannesburg vice-chancellor Ihron Rensburg.A year after taking the reins at one of South Africa’s largest universities, Rensburg appears unfazed by the complexities of an especially volatile merger.
Drew Forrest (”Will the self-righteous inherit the earth?,” April 26) used some strong qualifications in his attempts to discredit my letter (April 20). He edited it in such a way that it would suit his reply a week later. That’s his prerogative as an editor, but even he would have to admit that it does not exactly level the playing fields of religious discourse.
Revolutionary movements seldom develop elaborate theories on the role that leadership plays in the pursuit and achievement of the objectives of a people. The ANC has, however, made certain pronouncements on the qualities the movement should expect from its leaders. The best contribution to date was the document titled Through the Eye of a Needle.