Chicago is not famous for being squeamish about food. Its slaughterhouses once turned it into the meat production capital of the world, earning the nickname Porkopolis. But that was then. On Friday, Chicago has taken a lead in humane food production. The city council voted this week to ban the production and sale of foie gras, the first US city to do so.
A national embargo has been placed on the issuing of routine passports as no new passport blanks are available for processing, media reports said on Friday. A former senior Department of Home Affairs official said the handful of new passports still held by the department have now been reserved for ”emergency cases”.
Veteran marathon runner Wally Hayward has died at the age of 97, the Comrades Marathon Association said on Friday. Hayward’s athletic career spanned a period of 60 years, during which he competed and excelled at distances from 100m to 100 miles, the association said in a statement.
Veteran marathon runner Wally Hayward has died at the age of 97, the Comrades Marathon Association said on Friday. Hayward’s athletic career spanned a period of 60 years, during which he competed and excelled at distances from 100m to 100 miles, the association said in a statement.
Two South African pilots were killed on Thursday when their plane crashed on approach to the town of Lubutu in the northern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The pilots died when the South African-registered Convair 580 aircraft they were piloting fell from the sky on approach to the Amisi airport at Lubutu.
In response to at least a dozen e-mails and letters asking, sometimes desperately, for help, this week’s Loose Cannon takes the form of an Agony column, giving judicious advice to those in need.
After David Livingstone and Henry Stanley, the trickle of missionaries and explorers with thick moustaches, some good, most bad, became a flood. Livingstone’s quest for a ”free, civilised and Christian” Africa, not in the least hampered by his lack of discussion with the Africans themselves, became the beacon for a motley crew of chancers from Europe.
Senior African National Congress officials, including President Thabo Mbeki, paid their last respects to anti-apartheid activist Ellen Kuzwayo at the St John’s Anglican Parish in Soweto on Friday. Mbeki told hundreds of mourners that this country is free because people like Kuzwayo refused to succumb to despair.
A senior United States politician assailed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday for calling Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema a ”good friend” despite criticism of his human rights record. Democratic Senator Carl Levin said Rice sent the message that the United States was more interested in oil than human rights.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has appeared to endorse the notion of collective guilt for apartheid in comments made about whites, says South Africa’s leader of the opposition. Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said in his regular Friday column, <i>SA Today</i>, that Tutu is, indeed, "no racial nationalist".