A group of Swazi sculptors has introduced an element of play to the serious worlds of fine art and religion in their latest exhibition, Ezulwinini, writes Lisa Johnston.
Security guards’ unions and their employers were still locked in talks over a new wage offer on Monday night. The employers had been offering 8,3%, but on Friday revised the offer to a three-year deal with a 9,25% pay hike in the first year, 7,25% in the second year and 7% in the third year.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) opposed attempts by some organisations to limit affirmative action to benefit only people born before February 1990. Numsa was responding to a proposal made by the Tuks Afrikaanse Studente to limit affirmative action.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair refused on Monday to endorse publicly the plan by the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, for a partial withdrawal from the West Bank. In his first meeting with Blair since succeeding Ariel Sharon, Olmert outlined his proposal for the closure of some of the more remote Jewish settlements in the West Bank while annexing three major settlement blocs.
Cricket Australia overhauled on Tuesday the way it sells tickets for the much-anticipated Ashes series against England after criticism from fans that the existing system played into the hands of scalpers. Thousands of angry fans missed out when the first batch of tickets went on sale this month and were left fuming as tickets immediately appeared on internet auction sites at vastly inflated prices.
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Italy’s ”danger man” came through for the Azzurri. Andrea Pirlo, a player identified by Ghana as someone it needed to stop, scored in the 40th minute on Monday, and Vincenzo Iaquinta added a goal in the 83rd to give Italy a 2-0 win over Ghana in Group E at the World Cup.
The recent 50 basis point rate increase in South Africa has had mixed responses across the board, but none more so than among foreigners, who have seemingly started voting with their feet. Brait economist Colen Garrow says non-residents have been sellers of equities for four consecutive days now, and this needs to be monitored.
The South African government on Monday demanded a greater say over the way millions in United States HIV/Aids funding is spent in the country, arguing that giving the money directly to local programmes created a coordination problem. The Bush administration has pledged -billion to combat HIV/Aids over five years in 15 of the world’s worst-hit countries.
A new JavaScript worm has been identified that exploits an unpatched vulnerability in Yahoo! web mail. The worm, JS.Yamanner@m, spreads from person to person when the user opens an e-mail that is originally sent by the worm. The worm then sends itself to the user’s contacts that also use Yahoo! Mail.
The number of PCs in use in South Africa will pass the five-million mark for the first time this year, according to a new study released on Tuesday. Booming sales in PCs means not only more people than ever before are using new PCs, but also that PCs already in the field will remain in use for a longer period.