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/ 15 February 2006
Zimbabwean ambassador to South Africa Simon Khaya Moyo has lodged a complaint with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) for ”negative” reporting on his country, the Herald newspaper said on Wednesday. Its website quoted Moyo as saying the South African public broadcaster’s approach was astounding.
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/ 15 February 2006
The message from General Peter Pace, the chairperson of the United States joint chiefs of staff, was apocalyptic. ”We are at a critical time in the history of this great country and find ourselves challenged in ways we did not expect. We face a ruthless enemy intent on destroying our way of life and an uncertain future.”
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/ 15 February 2006
Front-runner René Préval on Tuesday decried ”massive fraud or gross errors” in Haiti’s presidential election, insisted he won outright, and urged supporters to continue protesting. The presidency promptly announced the formation of a commission to investigate the claims and called for final results of the February 7 election to be kept under wraps until the probe is completed.
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/ 15 February 2006
Stepping back from the big media-fed "Holy jihad, Batman!" wankfest that’s erupted recently over some arbitrary doodles that appear to infringe on some people’s "religious" ideas of reality, I can do no better than to point you towards a United Kingdom <i>Daily Telegraph</i> article looking at the whole highly suspicious charade.
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/ 15 February 2006
Manana Moroka talks to <b>Vicki Robinson</b> about her plans for Proudly South African and why she is the right woman for the job.
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/ 15 February 2006
There is no meaningful response to climate change without massive social change. A cap on this and a quota on the other will not do it. Tinker at the edges as we may, we cannot sustain Earth’s life-support systems within the present economic system. Capitalism is not sustainable by its very nature.
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/ 15 February 2006
In her song, Soweto Blues, Miriam Makeba laments the absence of men when the police killed schoolchildren in Soweto in June 1976. In her view, men ought to take up their traditional and historic role of protecting their kith. It is moot whether throughout history men have always exercised such responsibility with distinction.
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/ 15 February 2006
Ordinary South Africans — except those who are heavy smokers and drinkers — will be walking with a spring in their step after Wednesday’s Budget. Following the pattern set in previous budgets, Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has again wooed individual taxpayers with tax relief that will this year allow them to hang on to R13,1-billion.
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/ 15 February 2006
A bold cut in the corporate tax rate and the secondary tax on companies is necessary to unleash South Africa’s growth potential, but Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has not taken these steps, says the official opposition Democratic Alliance. Other parties have also responded.
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/ 15 February 2006
In Lerwick, in Scotland’s windswept Shetland Islands, just waiting to see the dentist can be as agonising as getting your tooth pulled. Just ask Alec Smales. ”My wife had to wait a year-and-a-half to see a dentist,” he recalled the other day, ”and then she had to wait for another year for her next appointment.”