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/ 29 September 2005
<b>AUTHOR’S NOTES</b>: Arthur Attwell recently published his first collection of poetry, which has been described as "combining the elegance and precision of an American master like Richard Wilbur".
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/ 29 September 2005
A Ugandan was arrested after being caught roasting his neighbour’s dog in order to eat it, local media reported on Thursday. Police arrested Hakim Abale Asega on a tip-off from neighbours who said they found him barbecueing ”a fat brown dog”. They suspected he had earlier clubbed it to death.
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/ 29 September 2005
Work to uncover and eradicate corruption in the 2004/05 financial year has saved the government projected future losses of nearly R3,5-billion, the Special Investigating Unit said on Thursday. This was calculated on the premise that malpractices exposed during the year were likely to have continued on average for ten more years.
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/ 29 September 2005
The four parties that make up Ethiopia’s largest opposition alliance, the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) have merged to form one party, an official of the coalition said on Thursday. The All Ethiopia Unity Party, the Union of Ethiopia Democracy Party, Rainbow Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Democratic League announced their unification on Saturday.
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/ 29 September 2005
In <i>Indaba: Interviews with African Writers</i> Stephen Gray speaks to the various practitioners of African literature such as the revered Nadine Gordimer, Anthony Egan reports.
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/ 29 September 2005
In his new album <i>Nations Uprising</i>, you get a taste of Young Nations, from the jet-setting baller, to the conscientious objector to the pillaging of the continent and the all-round, good-time guy who loves life but is still scarred by apartheid, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
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/ 29 September 2005
Question: What unites Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Adolf Hitler? Answer: An art exhibition in northern Italy. Entitled ”War is Over 1945-2005”, the exhibition opening at Bergamo’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art on October 15 offers visitors an international collection of drawings, paintings and posters united by the common theme of freedom in Europe in the post World War II era.
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/ 29 September 2005
European Union foreign ministers will meet in Luxembourg on October 2 in an eleventh-hour bid to finalise guidelines for membership talks with Turkey, scheduled to start a day later. Diplomats said ministers will focus on overcoming Austrian demands that Ankara be offered a watered-down partnership instead of full membership of the 25-nation bloc
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/ 29 September 2005
Authorities have identified 24 of the 51 people who were killed this week in flash floods in northern Vietnam, officials said on Thursday. The total number of fatalities from flash flooding that came on the tail end of Typhoon Damrey is still unknown because some areas remain cut off, an official from Yen Bai province said.
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/ 29 September 2005
Four people died and dozens were injured when hundreds of would-be immigrants tried to storm a border-crossing between Morocco and Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta early on Thursday, as the countries’ prime ministers held a summit on illegal immigration.