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/ 19 January 2007
South Africa’s Parliament must reassert its constitutional role as the true representative of the people and do its constitutionally entrenched function of framing, debating and passing laws and offering a check on executive power, says official opposition leader Tony Leon.
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/ 19 January 2007
Ipsa, the South African power developer, says it will start providing steam and power from its Newcastle gas-fired power plant from February 23, subject to the receipt of its generating licence. The plant will be Ipsa’s first as well as South Africa’s first independent gas-fired power plant.
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/ 19 January 2007
One of the most incongruous sights of the globalised age — the Starbucks coffee shop inside Beijing’s Forbidden City — could soon be a thing of the past after a furious online campaign. In response to this demonstration of "netizen" power, the palace’s guardians have announced plans to review the presence of the coffee shop.
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/ 19 January 2007
Plans by the opposition to mobilise Zimbabweans to block President Robert Mugabe’s bid to extend his decades-long rule could be met with overwhelming brutality from a government determined to hang on to power at any cost, analysts said on Thursday.
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/ 19 January 2007
The Sundance Film Festival opened on Thursday night with an innovative movie harkening back to Vietnam anti-war protests and a call by Robert Redford for an apology by United States leaders. Redford said in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks he, like many others, showed a ”spirit of unity” with President George Bush and others who backed the war on terrorism.
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/ 19 January 2007
Emergency services across northern Europe counted the cost on Friday of a devastating storm that killed at least 38 people and left widespread damage and disruption. Winds of up to 200kph swept off the Atlantic and cut a path across Britain, northern France, The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Belgium and the Czech Republic.
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/ 19 January 2007
Eskom’s national power-alert messages will be flighted on television to encourage countrywide electricity savings, a spokesperson said on Thursday. Eskom general manager Andrew Etzinger said the power-alert messages would illustrate the current state of electricity supply while asking individuals to respond by reducing electricity use.
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/ 19 January 2007
China has given notice of its increasing power in space — and provoked widespread international concern — with a successful test of an anti-satellite weapon that could be used to knock out enemy surveillance and communications craft.
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/ 19 January 2007
South Africans are increasingly pessimistic about the government’s ability to tackle the country’s crippling crime rates, a survey released on Thursday showed. The biannual Government Performance Barometer report showed 40% of South Africans believed the government was doing enough to fight crime, down from 50% last year.
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/ 19 January 2007
Just over 20 years ago a Bloemfontein Celtic side inspired by a then unknown youngster, Ernest Chirwali, scored four against Orlando Pirates at the Orlando Stadium. For the fans, that 4-0 defeat in 1985 was the last straw. Coach Sergio dos Santos had stayed too long.