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/ 19 September 2006
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> A Coen brothers production that’s funnier, in their screwball or oddball way than most other American movies available, <i>Intolerable Cruelty</i> should really have been titled <i>The Massey Pre-Nup</i>, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 19 September 2006
The world has become a much smaller place, and what this means for the democratic community (liberal and social alike) is that it can no longer ignore the adverse consequences of its unqualified relationship with the non-democratic world — including the Islamic republic of Iran.
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/ 18 September 2006
The events of September 11 2001, when all those passenger planes thumped into civilian and military targets, taking thousands of civilians with them to their doom, turned out to be a long-awaited wake-up call about the state of the world. What has happened since — the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq — has brought it all into sharper focus.
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/ 18 September 2006
A bomb in a market killed 17 people and wounded 27 in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar on Monday, local police said. Police in nearby Mosul said the blast was caused by a suicide attacker who blew himself up. Earlier on Monday, a suicide car bomber killed 13 people at a police recruitment centre in Iraq’s Sunni insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, west of Baghdad.
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/ 18 September 2006
Minister of Minerals and Energy Buyelwa Sonjica on Monday reaffirmed South Africa’s commitment to developing and applying nuclear technology towards peace, health and prosperity. With increased energy requirements, many countries had started looking to nuclear energy to meet their energy needs.
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/ 18 September 2006
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Jacob Zuma supporters might hope that Judge Herbert Msimang will throw his case out of the Pietermaritzburg High Court Wednesday, but they are more likely to be disappointed. The truth is that Msimang’s ruling only determines whether the state gets a postponement and for how long. The case stays before the courts.
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/ 18 September 2006
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People have short memories and tend to forget that the democratic movement will always produce leaders, African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma told the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ congress in Midrand on Monday. Attracting loud applause, he talked his way through the movement’s history.
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/ 18 September 2006
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Monday denied that it mishandled a case where 10 people accused of a spree of bank robberies, which netted over R100-million, walked free from a Mpumalanga court. The City Press newspaper reported on Sunday that the NPA misquoted its own law in appointing the prosecutor, resulting in the collapse of the case.
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/ 18 September 2006
President Thabo Mbeki is to address the 61st Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. Mbeki is leading the South African delegation to New York, which includes Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, her deputy director general George Nene and South Africa’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Dumisani Kumalo.