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/ 27 January 2006
P4 will be replacing much of its jazz playlist with ‘contemporary, soft R&B’ tunes, writes Hazel Friedman.
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/ 27 January 2006
Amsterdam is banking on celebrations for the 400th anniversary of Dutch master Rembrandt to draw hundreds of thousands of tourists and inject about €91-million into the city’s economy. Frederic Bichon reports.
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/ 27 January 2006
A Zimbabwean court on Wednesday charged two twin brothers with indecent exposure for walking around in goatskin loincloths while claiming to be divine messengers preaching about creation. The men were arrested while walking with only codpieces in a busy shopping centre in the posh Harare suburb of Mount Pleasant.
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/ 27 January 2006
Amsterdam’s municipal council wants vandals to try wrecking prototypes of new subway trains to ensure that the material is "Amsterdam-idiot-proof", the daily <i>Het Parool</i> reported on Thursday. A councillor said it is not easy to find subway trains that can withstand the Amsterdam brand of hooligans.
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/ 27 January 2006
”I thought the president was a bit taller,” one of the 18 recipients of a university scholarship from President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. This was Akwaowo Akpabio’s only disappointment on a day where he received a laptop and a full scholarship covering the cost of his tuition, books and accommodation for the year.
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/ 27 January 2006
Georgia announced on Friday a deal with Iran to provide natural gas from the start of next week, offering hope of relief following a severe disruption to energy supplies as a result of a mysterious attack on the main pipeline from neighbouring Russia. President Mikheil Saakashvili hailed the deal struck in Tehran.
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/ 27 January 2006
South African President Thabo Mbeki has congratulated the radical Hamas movement for winning this week’s legislative elections in Palestine and also praised the moderate outgoing rulers, Fatah, for accepting the ”freely expressed voice” of the people.
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/ 27 January 2006
Prince Zwelonke Sigcawu was named on Friday as the new king of the Xhosa kingdom at Willowvale in Eastern Cape, the Xhosa royal house said. Sigcawu succeeds his late father, King Xolilizwe Sigcawu, who died in Pretoria last year after suffering a long illness.
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/ 27 January 2006
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni marks two decades in power this weekend, less than a month before elections seen as a key test of his once-sterling but now tarnished democratic credentials. Since winning the respect and admiration of the West with enlightened economic and social policies, he has now run afoul of democracy advocates with increasing intolerance of dissent.
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/ 27 January 2006
Hamas was under mounting pressure to renounce violence on Friday after its shock election win as Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said he would ask the radical Islamist movement Hamas to form a new government. The sensational victory has thrown prospects for Middle East peacemaking into turmoil and triggered alarm in Israel and across the world.