Ralph Nader, the independent candidate blamed by many Americans for United States President George Bush’s election victory in 2000, says he is considering a run for the White House next year — even at the risk of dishing the Democrats again.
Nigeria’s crippling general strike entered its third day on Friday after overnight talks between labour unions and government ended in deadlock. Banks and schools remained closed across the country. The price of what little fuel was available on the black market continued to climb with public transport costing four times the usual price.
The top United States nuclear envoy, just returned from a rare visit to North Korea, said on Friday that Pyongyang was ready to disable its nuclear reactor. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said talks during his some-24-hour surprise trip to Pyongyang were detailed and positive.
Kenya is set to receive oil from Libya at preferential rates according to a bilateral agreement signed earlier this month between the leaders of the two countries. Insiders in the oil industry say this makes it likely that Kenya will award the contract for the establishment of a petroleum facility of $45-million to a Libya-connected investor.
The habit of packing some biltong in your suitcase as a gift for homesick friends and family in the United Kingdom will have to stop, if the British government has its way, media reports said on Friday. Many a concerned mother has sent a package of South African goodies, inevitably including some biltong and dry wors, along with a friend on their way to London.
Sitting in his snug log cabin next to the swirling Bystraya river, Alexander explained when he went fishing. "Sometimes we do in the day. Sometimes we do it at night. There’s no set time," he admitted, passing round a tub of mouth-wateringly delicious wild salmon and a chunk of brown bread.
It starts with a good old-fashioned epic, and ends with one. Citizen Kane, Orson Welles’s 1941 biopic about a newspaper magnate, topped a poll of the 100 best films announced by the American Film Institute on Thursday. At the bottom of the list was Ben-Hur, William Wyler’s 1959 spectacle starring Charlton Heston.
President Thabo Mbeki will attend the launch of a book on his governance by Ronald Suresh Roberts at the presidential guest house in Pretoria on Friday. The book, Fit to Govern: The Native Intelligence of Thabo Mbeki, will be launched at 7pm.
The Johannesburg Labour Court would on Friday rule whether police service members could join the public-service strike. During arguments on Thursday, lawyers for the police and the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union spent much time arguing which categories of South African Police Services employees were essential and which not.
Major Test matches come around so often these days, that it is easy to allow one to slip unremarked into another. But when the Springboks play the All Blacks, the world tends to slow down and this week in Durban was a time for reflection. The last two Tests between these sides at King’s Park were memorable for entirely contrasting reasons.