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/ 27 February 2006
Disgraced British glam rocker Gary Glitter goes on trial in Vietnam on Thursday charged with committing obscene acts with young girls in a case that could see the faded star sentenced to up to seven years in jail. The 61-year-old former showman is expected to plead not guilty when he appears in court in southern Vietnam.
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/ 27 February 2006
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Criss-crossing the country’s oldest municipality, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Sunday went on a charm offensive to galvanise support in what was expected to be a tight municipal election in Beaufort West. She visited three wards — Hospitaal Heuwel, Nieuveld Park and Prince Valley — before addressing a rally in Mandlenkosi.
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/ 27 February 2006
A male prostitute has given details of an intimate relationship he claimed to have had with murdered mining magnate Brett Kebble, Rapport newspaper reported on Sunday. It quoted Vaughan — as the 29-year-old man is known to his clients — as saying Kebble appeared to have a soft spot for him.
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/ 27 February 2006
Frank Gehry is probably the most distinctive architect of his generation. His buildings’ sensuous curves and undulating planes puzzle and surprise, challenging our notion of how a building works. What a dog will make of it all is anybody’s guess.
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/ 27 February 2006
When disaster visited them in Zimbabwe it had a name, Robert Mugabe. Now disaster has followed white farmers into exile in Zambia but this time there is no villain, just bad luck. Hounded from Zimbabwe, things went well at first for the 200 farmers who crossed the border to Zambia.
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/ 27 February 2006
Assets of Rand Gold & Exploration worth more than R2-billion were sold during Brett Kebble’s last year as chief executive, Business Day reported on Monday. It said the proceeds of these sales could not be traced. These details emerged partly from pre-liquidation applications brought in the Johannesburg High Court by Rand Gold & Exploration.
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/ 27 February 2006
Results of the education department’s literacy and numeracy survey reveals that Grade 3 pupils are not up to scratch. Some are not even at Grade 1 level, and many pupils are falling far short of what is required at school. That this situation is untenable is not disputed. What is disputed is the solution. Fortunately, a proven programme and sustainable solution is at hand.
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/ 27 February 2006
Ten-year-old Zimbabwean Dianna Matika, who had a heart ailment, is one of the confirmed fatalities after an earthquake measuring 7,5 on the Richter scale hit Southern Africa in the early hours of Thursday morning. The girl from the eastern Zimbabwean city of Mutare died three minutes after the quake struck.
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/ 27 February 2006
Time, the largest magazine publisher in the world, is looking for desk-bound young men more interested in idly surfing the internet than doing the work they are paid for. Surveys suggest there are millions of them and Time’s new online magazine, <i>Office Pirates</i>, has been custom-designed to grab their attention.
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/ 27 February 2006
If corruption was the lubricant that in the past oiled Kenya’s politics, it is now the enfant terrible that gobbles up its progenitors. Three weeks ago, this horrible child of Kenya’s politics strolled into town, scalping no less than three of President Mwai Kibaki’s ministers and his personal assistant.