An angry United States President George Bush rounded on the two remaining members of Washington’s ”axis of evil” yesterday, as he dismissed ”absurd” suggestions that the US presents the greatest threat to world stability. At a summit with the European Union in Vienna, Bush made clear that he believes Iran and North Korea pose the most serious danger when he warned them not to test his patience.
This month sees the launch of the revived news agency of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) — a move that hopes to put more information into global circulation, but which also highlights problems in African initiatives. The NAM service comes into being seven months after a meeting of its member countries’ information ministers.
South Africans, it is fair to say, are frightened by China. We complain about the cheap imports that are doing South African garment workers out of their jobs, we fret about the "insatiable" demand for natural resources, and the re-ordering of influence on the rest of the continent. And when we are really nervous, we talk about drug gangs that trade smuggled abalone for mandrax in the coastal villages.
South Africa’s number of dollar millionaires rose by nearly 16% last year, joining three other countries with the fastest-growing population of the super-rich in the world, <i>SAGoodNews.co.za</i> reported on Wednesday. Global millionaire numbers totalled 8,7-million in 2005, an increase of 6,5% on the previous year.
The location of Alyn Hospital on the outskirts of Jerusalem is so idyllic it could be out of the famous tale, Heidi. Nestled on a hilltop enclosed in pine-groves and wild daffodils, the sound of birdsong and children’s giggles allow one momentarily to forget the reality inside the hospital’s walls — the damaged and deformed children who are its patients.
The manne would like to commend African National Congress Youth League president Fikile Mbalula for his latest online missive in which he exhorts us to ”double our efforts” in the fight against HIV and Aids. Not only would a doubling of the state’s efforts put a whole 200Â 000 people on anti-retroviral treatment, it would leave only 4,5-million infected people in the hands of Teutonic snake-oil salesmen and
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More than 100 employees of Iraq’s Ministry of Industry were kidnapped by gunmen north of Baghdad as they left work on Wednesday in a brazen reminder of the country’s dire security situation. The mass-abduction came on the same day that the executed body of one of deposed leader Saddam Hussein’s lawyers was found in the capital.
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Ten-man Mexico scraped into the World Cup second round on Wednesday despite a chaotic 2-1 loss to a second-string Portugal. Mexico gave away a penalty, missed another and had a man sent off with 30 minutes left, but squeaked through when Group D rivals Angola were pegged back 1-1 by Iran.
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Angola scored the first goal of their short World Cup history, but a 1-1 draw with Iran in their final Group D match on Wednesday signalled the end of their remarkable journey in Germany. The Southern African nation, appearing in their first World Cup, had needed to win by three clear goals and hope that Group D rivals Mexico lost to Portugal.