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/ 18 September 2006
So much for so little? Tony Blair’s vague acknowledgment that, well, you know, by this time next year … had been dragged out of him after the most damaging public revolt in the history of New Labour, which is saying something. It is the political equivalent of losing several regiments of the best and bravest for a few metres of bloody clay in Flanders.
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/ 18 September 2006
New Zealand won a third straight women’s rugby World Cup crown when it fended off England 25-17 in the final at Commonwealth Stadium on Sunday. The Black Ferns scored four tries to two but England closed within three in the 77th minute, and not until a try in injury time by fullback Amiria Marsh did the New Zealanders start celebrating.
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/ 18 September 2006
It’s officially been called ”one national conversation”. But in reality Heartlines, the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) R44-million moral-regeneration project, is not about dialogue. It is a one-way instruction manual for good behaviour put out by the corporation in conjunction with the non-government Mass Media Project.
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/ 17 September 2006
Our political chickens, in different guises, are coming home to roost. Perhaps it is time to consider what the repercussions could be if we continue to reject and to ridicule those who try to deal with the consequences of their political actions. Quite apart from the sentence of the court, the behaviour of the accused too often condemns them to the ranks of fools, writes Antjie Krog.
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/ 17 September 2006
I can’t say that Australian "Wildlife Warrior" Steve Irwin’s passing inspires even the most transient distress. Rather it is a sense of relief that yet another exploitative human parasite has left us. And a parasite Irwin was. With his blustering invasions of the natural world, he personified slum-grade television.
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/ 17 September 2006
International Monetary Fund policymakers on Sunday backed the most sweeping overhaul of the institution for six decades to give fast-growing China, South Korea, Mexico and Turkey more influence. The plan to overhaul the 61-year-old IMF, whose balance of power still largely reflects the economic landscape at the end of World War II, was given the green light by the IMF’s International Monetary and Financial Committee.
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/ 17 September 2006
South Africa’s government long ignored warnings about drug-resistant tuberculosis, putting millions of HIV-positive people at risk now that a dangerous new strain of TB has emerged, Aids activists say. South African officials have scrambled to react to news this month that extremely drug resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, has killed at least 60 people in KwaZulu-Natal and is likely spreading.
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/ 17 September 2006
New Zealand is heavily favoured to win its third successive Women’s World Cup rugby crown when it meets England in the final on Sunday at the Commonwealth Stadium. New Zealand’s Black Ferns have won 13 straight World Cup matches, including defeats of the United States in the 1998 final in Amsterdam.
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/ 17 September 2006
Argentina’s Marco Antonio Barrera boxed his way to a unanimous decision over Rocky Juarez on Saturday, pleasing no one but himself with a workmanlike performance to keep his WBC super featherweight title in a fight that drew boos from the crowd for a lack of action.
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/ 17 September 2006
Over 4 000 community members from the rural town of Vogelfontein in the North West will receive land expropriated by the apartheid government, the North West provincial government said on Sunday. ”Today [Saturday] we all bear witness to the righting of the wrongs, to the return of respect and human dignity to a people who were unjustly robbed of these noble qualities,” said North West premier Edna Molewa.