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/ 14 September 2006
Wouter Basson says he has no moral obligation to resign from the South African military after it emerged he is still being paid despite not having worked since 1999. ”I have no moral or other obligation to resign the post. I did not suspend myself,” he said on Thursday.
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/ 14 September 2006
Nato was on Wednesday night trying to head off a full-blown crisis of credibility as allied defence chiefs failed to offer any extra troops to help hard-pressed soldiers fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. With commanders on the ground urgently demanding reinforcements, Britain and the United States raised the stakes in the struggle to get their Nato partners to provide more forces.
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/ 14 September 2006
One woman was killed and 19 people were wounded on Wednesday when a black-clad gunman opened fire in the cafeteria of a busy college in Montreal. Eight people were left critically injured before he was shot dead by police. The rampage began at about 12.30pm when the gunman got out of his car near a shopping mall in the centre of the city and began shooting an automatic rifle.
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/ 14 September 2006
While the bitter taste of antiretrovirals may cause some young children to vomit, the lingering taste helps 11-year old Thumi* remember to take her medicine. Thumi will have to take four tablets, twice a day, for the rest of her life. "She was very sick. She had swollen glands, chronic diarrhoea and she was very thin … Now she’s like any child," says Thumi’s mother, Khetiwe Nkosi.
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/ 14 September 2006
Parking space outside the Eddels shoe factory in Pietermaritzburg is, like half-size-too-small pumps bought at an irresistible mark-down, inevitably tight. Which, for Richard Starmer, the company’s men’s merchandise director, is cause to grin: "At the time [of the 2001 management buy-out], one of our goals was that all the workers would one day have cars and we seem to be reaching that."
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/ 14 September 2006
In 1999, an HIV-infected 30-year-old man named Fred Mwanga shocked the country when he raped a three-month-old baby in a Kampala suburb. Even more upsetting, Mwanga’s action was not an isolated incident. The rate of HIV-infected adults sexually abusing the nation’s most vulnerable citizens is rising. As these ill men prey on the minors, they spread the deadly HIV virus.
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/ 14 September 2006
Immigration and mass tourism are coexisting rather awkwardly in Spain’s Canary Islands, where more than 24 000 African migrants have arrived this year. Over the summer, a moving picture emerged of sunbathers rushing to aid exhausted Africans and offer them succour as they dragged themselves onto the beach after a perilous voyage lasting days in rickety fishing boats.
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/ 14 September 2006
The Mail & Guardian was interdicted from publishing a major story on Thursday when Maanda Manyatshe, the boss of cellphone giant MTN South Africa, applied for an interim interdict in the Johannesburg High Court to prevent its publication. After a request from Manyatshe’s lawyers, Judge Mohammed Jajbhay granted the applicants more time to respond to the M&G‘s answering affidavit.
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/ 14 September 2006
Progressives are unlikely to have much in common with Doctors for Life, an organisation that campaigns doggedly against a woman’s right to an abortion. But a couple of weeks ago, it would have been only a churlish progressive who would have not applauded a victory that this organisation gained at the Constitutional Court.
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/ 14 September 2006
A high court application has been bought against the Mail & Guardian by Maanda Manyatshe, the former chief executive officer of the South African Post Office and current chief executive of MTN South Africa. Manyatshe and his attorney are asking the Johannesburg High Court to grant an urgent interdict preventing the M&G from publishing a story on Friday.