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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.
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/ 29 September 2005
The 18th World Petroleum Congress has been a ”resounding success” and a demonstration of the increasing cooperation between African governments, the Minister of Minerals and Energy, Lindiwe Hendricks, said on Thursday, the last day of the congress in Johannesburg.
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/ 29 September 2005
”The Independent Democrats in Gauteng have lost their engine room,” the Democratic Alliance’s provincial leader in Gauteng, Ian Davidson, claimed on Thursday. According to a statement released by the DA, 11 leading ID office-bearers — including provincial chairperson Peter Batchelor — are joining the DA.
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/ 29 September 2005
The South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union said on Thursday it was disappointed at the government’s decision to close down a domestic skills project. The project was a sector education and training authority initiative targeting the country’s estimated 1,5-million domestic workers.
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/ 29 September 2005
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero met his Moroccan counterpart Driss Jettou for talks on illegal immigration on Thursday following another night of deadly unrest at a border-crossing between the two countries. The summit was to address joint efforts to contain illegal immigration, as well as the situation in the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara.