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/ 1 February 2006
It’s not every day that men get down on their knees to eat dog biscuits out of a woman’s hand. On the surface, such a scene, from the show Train Your Man, may look like a revolt against the bastard male gene that collectively turned women into hateful tyrants.
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/ 1 February 2006
As illnesses go, Buruli ulcer does not receive the attention given to conditions such as HIV/Aids or bird flu: the World Health Organisation has even termed it a ”neglected tropical disease”. In the conflict-torn nation of Côte d’Ivoire, however, matters are somewhat different.
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/ 31 January 2006
Fresh interest by the Democratic Alliance (DA) in a report on the affairs of the Moqhaka municipality was ”unfortunate”, Free State premier Beatrice Marshoff said on Tuesday. DA leader Tony Leon has called on the premier to release the Majavu commission of inquiry’s findings on alleged corruption and maladministration in Moqhaka.
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/ 31 January 2006
Zimbabwe’s national cricket manager, Mohammed Meman, was fired on Tuesday after 15 years in the job. Meman immediately went to see his lawyer after being given three months’ notice — a move he described as ”an absolute disgrace”. Meman has been in charge of almost all Zimbabwe’s Test and one-day international teams since 1991.
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/ 31 January 2006
The IT Lynx Consortium, and not controversial oil dealer Sandi Majali, is suing Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya for R149-million, the company said on Tuesday. The consortium accused the Sunday Times on Tuesday of being ”inaccurate, misleading and mischievous”.
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/ 31 January 2006
The panel probing fuel shortages experienced late last year will soon call for public input into its inquiry, chairperson Marumo Moerane said on Tuesday. Moerane met the SA Petroleum Industry Association (Sapia) board of governors on Tuesday to outline the process that would be followed during the investigation.
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/ 31 January 2006
Denmark’s largest selling broadsheet newspaper on Monday night issued an apology to the ”honourable citizens of the Muslim world” after publishing a series of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that provoked protests across the Middle East.
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/ 31 January 2006
The disputed Palestinian film Paradise Now, the tale of two childhood friends who volunteer to be suicide bombers, was nominated on Tuesday for a best foreign language Oscar. The film, by director Hanny Abu-Assad, is competing against, among others, the South African crime drama Tsotsi, by Gavin Hood.
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/ 31 January 2006
Transnet workers in KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State ended their second day of strikes on Tuesday with unions claiming success. ”No matter which way you try and spin it, there’s no doubt the strike has been effective,” the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union’s (Satawu) Randall Howard said.