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/ 12 December 2005
Residents of Khutsong on the West Rand of Gauteng will hold a protest and stayaway on Monday against a decision to incorporate the community into the North West province. The community believes it will receive better services from the wealthier Gauteng province. The government has denied this.
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/ 12 December 2005
The decision by the Cabinet to go ahead with the R20-billion Gautrain project will be a decision that in all likelihood it will live to regret, the Democratic Alliance spokesperson on transport, Stuart Farrow, said on Sunday. The parliamentary portfolio committee on transport’s concerns seem to have been ignored, he said.
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/ 12 December 2005
Flight schedules at Cape Town International airport might be running on time again from Monday morning, South African Airways said on Sunday evening after many flights were delayed at the weekend due to a lack of jet fuel. Meanwhile, Cape Town and Johannesburg motorists have been warned to fill up with petrol while they can.
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/ 12 December 2005
An enormous cheer rises into the Bagram sky. In a pink bikini top, miniskirt and red Father Christmas hat, the voluptuous Lilian Garcia has appeared to give thousands of GIs an early Christmas present: the superstars of American wrestling here, in the Afghan desert. Close to 5Â 000 soldiers are packed around a wrestling ring rigged up on the tarmac of the biggest United States base.
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/ 12 December 2005
Against a background of raised political temperatures, Professor Tawana Kupe enagaged with Dr Snuki Zikalala, the SABC’s MD of news and current affairs, at the recent Harold Wolpe Lecture Series. He gives here a summary of the disagreements.
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/ 12 December 2005
Nowadays, South Africa’s media training institutions all agree that students should be trained to think critically about the broad forces shaping a post-apartheid society. Sean O’Toole compares the curriculums and asks whether tuition is succeeding.
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/ 12 December 2005
Outwit. Outpublish. Outlast. That’s the rallying cry of the new entrants into South Africa’s booming magazine market, according to Josef Talotta. And how do they plan to do it? Finding the untapped "mindset" would appear to be the thing.
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/ 12 December 2005
Sick of being stuck in gridlocked traffic or jostled in overcrowded buses, Jakartans wonder whether their public transport dream, the city’s first monorail, is ever going to become reality. One-and-a-half years after its ground-breaking, the only sign that the saga-riddled project is under way is a few concrete and steel shoots poking into the polluted main street of South Jakarta’s business district.
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/ 12 December 2005
High up on the Bolivian altiplano near Lake Titicaca, an Aymara priest holds a green plastic lighter to a carved wooden cup containing strips of paper. Despite the fierce gusts of the early morning wind, the paper catches and smoke billows forth. The priest, dressed in traditional, brightly coloured robes, holds the smoking vessel before the presidential candidate.
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/ 12 December 2005
Reports on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial conference have increasingly focused on the expected failure of this meeting to achieve the necessary level of ”consensus” to prevent ”another Cancun”. The way things are in the WTO and in the current Doha-round negotiations is essential in the defence and promotion of their own needs and rights.