Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, his eyes fixed on his legacy, has engaged President Thabo Mbeki to broker ”dialogue” with Britain that could end hostilities with its former colony. Mugabe accuses his arch-nemesis, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair, of being the major driver of mobilising international opposition to his rule.
As famine continues to ravage parts of Kenya, a non-governmental organisation is urging authorities to reduce the cost of basic food stuffs, particularly maize flour — the staple food. A survey by the group, Bunge la Mwananchi, has indicated that while food is for sale in affected areas, it is too expensive for the people living there.
Kenya’s attorney general recently signalled his willingness to tackle the country’s biggest corruption scandal by charging five men, including the former governor of the central bank, with fraud. The ”Goldenberg” scandal was made public 14 years ago and cost Kenyan taxpayers the equivalent of -million.
Vodafone shares surged as investors bet that the cellphone company was ready to scale back its global operations after the apparent victory of chief executive Arun Sarin in a boardroom row. The company has already agreed to a deal to sell its Japanese business while its partner in the United States, Verizon, expressed interest in buying out Vodafone.
Unburdened from a doping taint, Australia reverted to usual Commonwealth Games form on Friday with its athletes capturing half of the gold medals on the second day of competition. A reprieve for Melbourne 2006 wasn’t the last word for weightlifting, however, with an investigation launched into the sport after spate of doping cases and accusations.
I watched with pain last year when your balance sheets were splashed in the media. I empathised with your humiliations. At one stage I felt so pained, I did not want to see or hear any further media reports. I write this article with the same sense of empathy. This time, however, you are not the victim but the agent.
He won’t win the tournament but 12-year-old Vanuatan table tennis player Yoshua Shing has won the hearts of Commonwealth Games spectators. The softly-spoken student is pulling in the punters to the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre who want to catch a glimpse of the competition’s youngest participant who watches cartoons when he’s not playing ping pong.
For the manne down at the Dorsbult Bar, swimmer Roland Schoeman is something of a superhero. But when he appeared on News24 this week, Lemmer suddenly noticed a nasty likeness to Willem Dafoe, aka the Green Goblin of Spider-Man fame. Is Roland destined for Tinseltown as the Green and Gold Goblin?
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