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/ 22 January 2007
South Africa have an uphill battle to save the second Castle Lager Test against Pakistan at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth. At stumps on the third day, Pakistan — chasing 191 to win — had eight without loss. Despite being without Shoaib Akhtar, who has a hamstring injury, Pakistan had South Africa on the back foot for most of the day.
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/ 22 January 2007
Zimbabwe’s respected Roman Catholic Justice and Peace Commission on Sunday decried deepening hardships in the country, including hunger, deaths caused by a doctors’ strike and a record dropout rate in state schools over spiralling education fees. The commission called for political reforms by President Robert Mugabe’s authoritarian government.
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/ 22 January 2007
A South African citizen accused of having links to al-Qaeda has dismissed the allegations against him as ”patently false and devoid of merit”. The Sunday Times reported that the man and his cousin had been named on the United Nations Security Council’s list of terror suspects for alleged links to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda.
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/ 22 January 2007
At first glance it is standard Hollywood red carpet fare: A-list celebrities such as Beyoncé Knowles and Jennifer Lopez brandishing their diamond jewellery for the cameras. But there is much more to these photocalls than mere fashion statement. The stars are part of a multimillion-dollar campaign by the industry to head off a potential public relations disaster in the form of a new Hollywood film.
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/ 22 January 2007
Monaco, Europe’s tiny gambling paradise, is seeking to tap the Chinese’s huge appetite for games of chance in a new promotional drive — but one that targets the highest of the high-rollers. The Societe des Bains de Mer, the principality’s gaming monopoly, has launched a hunt for China’s wealthiest punters.
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/ 22 January 2007
It’s just one of those Johannesburg phenomena you have to get you head around, I suppose. I currently live in the eastern suburb of Observatory and my nearest friendly shopping neighbourhood for food and such like is the formerly predominantly Jewish suburb of Cyrildene.
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/ 22 January 2007
"While you sleep!" is a catchphrase on hundreds of internet sites selling products that are supposed to help you, for example, "overcome fear of clowns" and "master the bagpipes". "Sleep learning" comes out of the "self-empowerment" movement, dating back to the 1930s. Instructions on how to do all manner of things while having a snooze used to be contained in cassettes kept in the section of the bookshop next to macrobiotic cookery books.
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/ 22 January 2007
Is it perhaps time to say "<i>yebo baba</i>" to a bleached sphincter? Yes, you. Is your sphincter too brown? An open-ended question, if ever there was one. You can now have a sparkling brown eye by having it bleached. Some beauticians are billing it as the new Brazilian wax.
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/ 22 January 2007
David Macfarlane is one of the better education journalists in the land. He has been a long time in the business and has a nose for a good story. He regularly peppers the education bureaucracies with emailed questions, from which he draws his own conclusions. He probably pays closer attention to the minister’s speeches than most others. But, in his critique of the role of the minister of education we have seen a blind spot, writes Duncan Hindle, director general of education.
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/ 22 January 2007
Six months after thousands of tonnes of fuel oil spilled into the Mediterranean when Israel bombed a Lebanese power plant, the waters are still spitting out black poison despite efforts to clean up the mess. "The rain and the low tide have created new pollution zones," Ahmed Kojok of the Sea of Lebanon association told the media.