Johannesburg can look forward to accelerated business and leisure tourism in 2006 and beyond, according to Eddy Khosa, CEO of The Johannesburg Tourism Company (JTC), which is spearheading the drive for growth in both international and domestic tourism to the city.
Delegates began arriving in Harare on Friday for a weekend conference at which opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai appeared certain to retain his post as leader of his faction of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). At least 10 000 delegates are expected to attend the conference that will see elections for all major party positions, said MDC spokesperson Nelson Chamisa.
A 14-year-old boy was killed when security guards fired into a massive crowd of Kurds protesting local corruption in Halabja on Thursday on the anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s gas attack on the Kurdish town. Most of the demonstrators were students from universities around the Kurdish region and they expressed widespread anger over the lack reconstruction in the impoverished town.
Paris police have arrested 187 people in connection with violent clashes that followed Thursday’s demonstrations against new labour laws, the city’s police chief Pierre Mutz said on Friday. Mutz described those behind the violence, in which 46 police officers were injured, as ”louts” and said he hoped to identify them by the end of the day.
A DVD purporting to show a married KwaZulu-Natal politician in a compromising position with an attractive young woman has reared its head, the Daily News reported on Friday. Its website said the DVD is being widely distributed in certain areas of the province.
Review by <b>Mphuthumi Ntabeni</b>
Award-winning author K Sello Duiker died before his third novel made it on to the shelves. This is an excerpt from <i>The Hidden Star</i> (Umuzi), his final story, published posthumously.
Disabled South African swimmer Natalie du Toit smashed the amputee world record in the 50m freestyle twice in a day at the Commonwealth Games on Friday. Du Toit broke her own record with a new best of 29,32 seconds in the morning semifinal and then smashed it again with 29,27 in winning the night final.
Jose Mourinho never spoke a truer word than when he claimed, after Chelsea’s exit from the Champions League in Barcelona, that at the highest level of football details can make a big difference. What he meant was that the detail of Asier del Horno being incorrectly sent off in the first leg had handicapped Chelsea unfairly.
Alex Sudheim speaks to John van de Ruit about the runaway success of his debut novel, <i>Spud</i>.