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/ 23 September 2005
British electronic music whizz Matthew Herbert is hoping to become the first musician ever to use the sound of cancer in a dance track. The London-based musician is working on the follow-up album to <i>Plat du Jour</i>, released worldwide this year, which was made using sampled recordings of food to raise awareness about the industrialisation of modern farming methods.
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/ 23 September 2005
He is in his early 30s but looks much younger with a ”smooth, boyish face” and a height of a little more than one-and-a-half metres. He is soft-spoken, well-mannered, and often dresses in jeans and track shoes, Nike being his brand of choice. He has hated the United States with a ”passion bordering on insanity” ever since spending time with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Sudan.
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/ 23 September 2005
Civil society in Zimbabwe is ”taking lessons from history” to chart a mass mobilisation campaign for a new Constitution that will target ruling party Zanu-PF’s traditional strongholds in the rural areas. The National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) has been tasked by labour, churches, students and human-rights groups with spearheading the drive.
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/ 23 September 2005
President George W Bush’s multibillion-dollar reconstruction plans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina are being used as ”a vast laboratory” for conservative social polices, administration critics claim. The White House strategy involves the suspension of a series of regulations guaranteeing the going local wage and affirmative action for minorities.
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/ 23 September 2005
Thomas Friedman is a famous columnist on The New York Times. He has been described as “a guard dog of United States foreign policy”. Whatever America’s warlords have in mind for the rest of humanity, Friedman will bark it. He boasts that “the hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist”. He promotes bombing countries and says World War III has begun.
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/ 23 September 2005
Lemmer has always enjoyed the honesty of revolutionary rhetoric, since it is one of the only forms of human speech that instantly and completely betray the speaker’s limitations and paranoias. And this week the rhetoric coming out of the African National Congress Youth League on its website was as purple as a gesuipte sheep-rustler’s schnozz.
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/ 22 September 2005
Nigerian militia fighters have seized and shut down a Chevron oil flow station, a militia leader said. The militia has threatened to shut down oil operations in the southern Niger delta — where most of Opec member Nigeria’s crude is produced — unless its leader, Moujahid Dokubo-Asari, is released from detention.
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/ 22 September 2005
The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) has disputed an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report blaming high unemployment in South Africa on inflexible labour laws. ”Once again the IMF has failed to provide significant evidence that our labour laws are inflexible and a hindrance to employment growth,” Cosatu spokesperson Paul Notyhawa said on Thursday.