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/ 21 October 2005
In one of his occasional but welcome visits to South Africa, President Thabo Mbeki emitted another beatitude: this one was about the reactionary psycho-pathology prevalent among those white people still insisting on languishing in his republic.
Mbeki was quite clear.
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/ 21 October 2005
South African Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni has cautioned that the long period of lower interest rates (monetary policy accommodation) may be coming to an end, despite the current level of inflation being within the target range. He was addressing Parliament’s portfolio committee on finance on Friday.
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/ 21 October 2005
The Amazonian rainforest is being destroyed at double the rate of all previous estimates, according to research published today in the journal Science. The destruction is leaving the forest more prone to fires and allowing more carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere, according to scientists.
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/ 21 October 2005
Zimbabwe has discarded its 21-month-old controlled foreign currency auction system in favour of free market trading, its central bank governor announced on Thursday. The central bank in January 2004 introduced the auction system, in which it determined the rate in a bid to narrow extreme differences between the official and parallel rates with the United States dollar and other international currencies.
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/ 21 October 2005
A recent novel, written by an Arab woman under the pseudonym Nedjma and first published in France, has become a bestseller, writes Thobile Disemelo.
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/ 21 October 2005
Culture and ideas and words constitute a world power, and they stand against the current menace — thanks in no small measure to Nobel Prize-winner Harold Pinter, writes John Pilger.
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/ 21 October 2005
I draw blood from the tip of my finger, transfer it to a plastic diskette, add six drops of a clear chemical solution and wait for five minutes while a red blush spreads across an area marked T (for test) and C (for control). No vertical bar appears on the T, meaning that I am HIV-negative.
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/ 21 October 2005
A compromise plan aimed at ending the latest battle around Judge President John Hlophe has left questions hanging, and looks likely to lend momentum to calls for an improved disciplinary mechanism for judges. Chief Justice Pius Langa is expected to release a report on transformation in the judiciary next week.
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/ 21 October 2005
The African National Congress ruling party has welcomed the resolution of a race row that erupted in the Cape High Court in the past two weeks. In a statement on Thursday, parliamentary caucus spokesperson Mpho Lekgoro said the caucus had confidence in the judiciary’s ability to deal with the matter competently.
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/ 21 October 2005
A man who died in his car at a busy Australian shopping centre sat there for a week and even collected a parking ticket on his windshield before anyone realised he had passed away, reports said on Friday. Sky News reported the 71-year-old motorist was issued with a parking ticket at the shopping centre in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs two days before his death was discovered.