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/ 15 November 2005
The insurance industry entered 2005 gloriously poised to take advantage of positive economic sentiment and potentially spectacular growth in many underserved, emerging markets. South Africa sits in a unique global position, making it difficult to compare its industry to others. South Africa has the highest life insurance saturation level of any country in the world
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/ 15 November 2005
This is what vibrant religious life looks like in one corner of American Judaism: a T-shirt that says ”WWBD?” above a sketch of Barbra Streisand. A man in drag teaching Torah. A website called Mazal Tov Cocktail, a self-described ”encyclopedia of Jewish radical culture” represented by a flaming rag inside a bottle of Manischewitz.
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/ 15 November 2005
After 25 years of rapid development, China has established itself as the workshop of the world. Now it is moving towards a new phase — from mass producer to superconsumer — that could lead to one of the biggest redistributions of the planet’s resources in history.
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/ 14 November 2005
Apartheid-era defence minister Magnus Malan has joined former South African Defence Force chief Constand Viljoen in denying any knowledge of mass graves found near a former South African military base in northern Namibia. Two mass graves have been found near Eenhana, 850km north-east of Windhoek.
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/ 14 November 2005
Parastatal arms manufacturer Denel on Monday posted a R1,6-billion loss for the financial year ended March 31. ”The board believes there are adequate funding facilities to meet the group’s immediate future obligations,” Denel said in a statement released after its annual general meeting.
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/ 14 November 2005
Eritrea on Monday denied reports by the United Nations that it has been moving troops near its tense border with Ethiopia, a move that has increased tension between the Horn of Africa foes. ”It is not true at all that there is an Eritrean troop movement,” Information Minister Ali Abdu said.
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/ 14 November 2005
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has criticised the Sunday Times for publishing rape claims from ”faceless sources” against former deputy president Jacob Zuma. ”There can be no worse violation of human rights than this,” Cosatu said.
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/ 14 November 2005
French artist Raymond Hains, a member of the new-realism movement who was famous for his shredded posters, has died at age 78, French officials said. Hains banded together with leading artists, including Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely and Arman, to found new realism in 1960.
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/ 14 November 2005
Graham Payn, a South African-born singer and actor who was a post-war fixture in London’s West End, has died, agents for the estate of Payn’s long-time companion, Noël Coward, said on Monday. He was 87. Payn, a product of the white-tie-and-tails school of song and dance, made his breakthrough in Coward’s 1945 Sigh No More.