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/ 15 September 2006
A jilted girlfriend tried to hire a hit man to kill her boyfriend’s new love in Arizona after spotting her rival’s picture on his <i>MySpace</i> social networking web page, police said on Thursday. Heather Kane (22) was arrested after giving a $400 down payment to an undercover officer posing as a contract killer, according to Detective Jerry Gissel of the Mesa Police Department.
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/ 15 September 2006
The JSE was weaker in noon trade on Friday, after lower commodity prices knocked heavyweight resources stocks. Volumes were extremely light, however, ahead of the release of United States consumer price index data. By 12.08pm the all-share index slipped 0,51%. Industrials dipped 0,07%, financials were flat (+0,01%) and the banks index eased 0,2%.
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/ 15 September 2006
”We were very excited when the antiretroviral [ARV] drugs came at last,”’ said Tony Moll, chief medical officer at the Church of Scotland hospital near Tugela Ferry, KwaZulu-Natal. ”We witnessed dramatic turnarounds in the health of patients with HIV. Then we had a small group who responded magnificently to the ARVs — their immune systems were bouncing back — while they kept on getting sicker.”
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/ 15 September 2006
Econet Wireless — Zimbabwe’s largest mobile network operator — will early next year introduce 3G for the first time in that country, initially targeting the capital city Harare, the company said in a statement on Friday. Zimbabwe will join South Africa and Mauritius as the only African countries to roll-out 3G services.
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/ 15 September 2006
Zoë Wicomb’s new novel proves most engaging in its ordinariness, writes Jane Rosenthal.
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/ 15 September 2006
<b>NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal finds that Jack Black fails to raise even a titter in the comedy <i>Nacho Libre</i>.
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/ 15 September 2006
The traditional instrumentalist goes electronic to teach the youth a lesson, writes Andie Miller.
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/ 15 September 2006
Lloyd Gedye criticises the plot — or lack of one — in Douglas Coupland’s latest novel.
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/ 15 September 2006
Renee Muller is this year’s winner of the BTA/Anglo Platinum Short Story Competition for <i>Mrs Tilbury’s Cast-Offs</i>. This is an extract.
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/ 15 September 2006
Tariq Ali discusses Lawrence Wright’s 480-page tome <i>The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda’s Road to 9/11</i>, already a United States bestseller.