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/ 13 January 2006
A snap <i>Mail & Guardian</i> survey of schools in and around Johannesburg on Wednesday suggested that the quality of pupils’ back-to-school experiences still depends largely on where they are located — in other words, how well resourced they are.
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/ 13 January 2006
A national and international brouhaha has rapidly developed following the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s decision to bar renowned academic and activist Dr Ashwin Desai from seeking a position at the university. The decision has elicited letters of strong protest from Noam Chomsky and Naomi Klein — among other well known figures from abroad.
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/ 13 January 2006
Ahmed Hadi and his new wife Tiba Mohammed, like many young married couples in Baghdad, are not getting enough sex. The problem is not a lack of desire but of power — electrical power. Making love for many of Iraq’s Muslim population not only requires a willing partner but also a sure supply of water to enable the participants to take a shower afterwards before going to pray.
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/ 13 January 2006
Newly elected to the Liberian Parliament, the estranged wife of Liberia’s notorious former president Charles Taylor believes that attempts to bring him before the United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone would open a Pandora’s box.
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/ 13 January 2006
Nigerian troops were searching on Friday for an armed gang which stormed an oil industry supply vessel and kidnapped four foreign workers, a military spokesperson said. The hostages were taken on Wednesday when around 40 gunmen in three canoes seized the boat Liberty Service in waters off the Niger Delta, 180km east of Lagos, naval Captain Obiara Medani said.
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/ 13 January 2006
The Beach Boys are suing two men for -million, claiming they stole a trove of photos, recordings and other band memorabilia from a warehouse with the intent of putting the items up for auction. The lawsuit names three defendants — Allan Gaba, the owner of a North Hollywood, California warehouse, his friend, Roy Sciacca, and Gem Systems, a company Sciacca was involved in.
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/ 13 January 2006
Gunmen armed with an assault rifle shot and killed a well-known elderly British environmentalist early on Friday in an apparent robbery in Kenya’s central Rift Valley, police said. Joan Wenn Root (69) the daughter of a colonial-era British settler, was shot three times in her bed at home near the town of Naivasha, about 90km northwest of Nairobi.
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/ 13 January 2006
South African strike bowler Makhaya Ntini could make a surprise return for the triangular one-day series in Brisbane after Andre Nel was found to have a severe stress fracture in his left foot on Friday. Nel, South Africa’s leading wicket-taker in the 2-0 Test series loss to Australia, will fly home early on Saturday, missing the upcoming series which also includes Sri Lanka.
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/ 13 January 2006
Sourav Ganguly was included in the Indian team for the first Test against Pakistan in Lahore on Friday due to pressure from cricket board chiefs, said a team source. Coach Greg Chappell and captain Rahul Dravid did not want Ganguly to open the innings and could not fit him in the middle-order either without disturbing a trusted combination.
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/ 13 January 2006
A dispute between business partners has exposed the continued involvement of fugitive business person Billy Rautenbach in the massive exploitation of mineral resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Rautenbach, who currently lives in Zimbabwe and the DRC, left South Africa in about October 2000 when a warrant for his arrest was issued on charges of fraud, theft and corruption.