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/ 14 December 2005
When President Thabo Mbeki took to the parliamentary podium in 1996 and declared ”I am an African,” everyone in Parliament who spoke during that debate declared and asserted that they were Africans, from African National Congress members to those of the Freedom Front. The ruling party has since undergone a Damascene conversion.
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/ 13 December 2005
The assassination on Tuesday of a Sunni candidate in Iraq’s election cast a shadow over expatriate voting for a new Parliament that many hope will restore stability to the war-torn country. The election has been billed as a critical democratic step for Iraq nearly three years after the United States-led invasion.
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/ 13 December 2005
Five trillion dollars has been corruptly removed from the world’s poorest countries and lodged permanently in the world’s richest countries. That is the ”conservative estimate” of a leading United States businessman and enthusiast for capitalism who has just completed a major study of how wealthy individuals and unscrupulous governments are using the world’s banking systems in ways that spread poverty.
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/ 13 December 2005
New maps show that the Earth is rapidly running out of fertile land and that food production will soon be unable to keep up with the world’s burgeoning population. The maps reveal that more than one-third of the world’s land is being used to grow crops or graze cattle.
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/ 13 December 2005
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Threatened legal action by the media against police for barring them from the rape court appearance of Jacob Zuma has been reduced to a letter of protest. The South African National Editors’ Forum, Primedia Broadcasting and The Star have sent an ”official letter” to National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
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/ 13 December 2005
United States R&B star John Legend speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about songwriting, singing his national anthem and Christianity.
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/ 13 December 2005
Anthony Egan reviews two new books, which go a considerable way to helping us see the new South African Police Service (SAPS) more fairly.
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/ 13 December 2005
Robbie Williams’s latest album is an energetic and shameless form of pastiche pop, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 13 December 2005
An application for the setting aside of an arrest warrant for an information technology consultant implicated in an alleged National Intelligence Agency hoax e-mail scam was put on ice on Tuesday. The application was removed from the Pretoria High Court’s urgent roll by consent of all the parties involved.