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/ 14 October 2005
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: The Guardian likened watching Night Watch to being hit over the head with a large frying pan while heavy metal music blasted in the background. Shaun de Waal disagrees.
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/ 14 October 2005
Fourteen badly burnt young elephants rescued from a wildfire in the Pilanesberg National Park are caught in a tug of war between conservationists about whether they should be put out of their misery. The National Council of SPCAs sent a high-level delegation of five veterinarians to check on the elephants after one of them died of its injuries.
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/ 14 October 2005
It is extraordinary how many of the decisions we make are fuelled by fear. Persuading people to be afraid of something or other is one of the most effective of marketing tools. Every car advertisement these days has its inbuilt motorists-beware message.
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/ 14 October 2005
A series of reported mob justice and vigilante incidents has gripped South Africa in recent weeks, fuelling the perception that the once popular "Township Act" for dealing with political spies and hooliganism is on the upsurge. In one weekend, mob justice incidents left at least four people dead and three injured.
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/ 14 October 2005
Culling, it seemed, was the only viable option. The pesky brutes didn’t react well to sterilisation, and relocating them was out of the question. No, wholesale slaughter it would have to be. They simply used up too much land — one really couldn’t expect to roam expansive territories nowadays — and besides they were hugely destructive to the environment.
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/ 14 October 2005
Inquiries about the investigation into Brett Kebble’s murder drew a blank on Friday with the police unwilling to comment. ”I’m not allowed to talk to the media,” said Director Charles Johnson, head of the Johannesburg task team investigating the murder of the mining magnate.
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/ 14 October 2005
Trusts have received some bad press recently as a result of changing tax legislation. Gone are the days where you chucked all your assets into a trust to avoid tax and transfer duty on your property. With the advent of capital gains tax, having your home held in a trust structure means you cannot take advantage of the R1-million rebate on your primary residence.
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/ 14 October 2005
Cricket technology intervened to give the World XI two crucial Australian wickets on a history-making opening day of the Super Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday. Michael Clarke became the first batsman given out in Test cricket by the video umpire Darrell Hair midway through the afternoon session to a bat-pad catch off spinner Daniel Vettori for 39.
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/ 14 October 2005
The United States government is spending more than -million a day to house people affected by Hurricane Katrina in hotels. The hotel bill has grown as officials struggle to meet a deadline imposed by US President George Bush to move all evacuees out of emergency shelters by the middle of October.
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/ 14 October 2005
Cricketers are neither linguists nor mathematicians, so perhaps one could forgive the Australians their blabbermouthed foolishness of the past week. First it was Matthew Hayden, scrambling to the summit of sports jargon idiocy by declaring himself to be ”a billion percent” behind Ricky Ponting, perhaps in the hope that some of those tens of millions of percents would rub off on the selectors when they cast their eyes over Hayden’s wretched form this year.