Jane Taylor is an academic of note and only someone familiar with the world of academe would devise such an astonishing motive for a homicide, in her new novel <i>Of wild dogs</i>, writes Barbara Ludman.
After the Chinese herb mocrea in the 1990s and the African potato five years ago, moringa powder is the latest craze for Zimbabweans battling one of the world’s highest HIV/Aids infection rates. ”Do you want to feel well, have a healthy appetite and live longer?” a pamphlet on a supermarket noticeboard screams in bold print.
The sound of the Kwani Experience travels far beyond the concrete that spawned it. Their sound is clearly the progeny of a long list of South African innovators, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
A new book, using hitherto untapped sources, reveals the truth behind the myth of Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, writes Michael Yahuda.
Hurricane Katrina pounded storm-wary Florida, killing at least three people, leaving about 1,5-million homes without power and collapsing a Miami highway overpass. Hours after the storm slammed ashore in densely populated southeastern Florida, its eye headed out to the Gulf of Mexico early on Friday, but howling winds and pounding rain still battered Miami.
Trade-union opposition is believed to have thrown a spanner in the works of an ambitious Public Investment Corporation (PIC) plan to transfer the remaining 3,3% of Telkom it was warehousing to 1,5-million government employees, <i>Business Day</i> reported on Friday. The PIC bought 15,1% of Telkom from the overseas Thintana group last year.
World number two platinum-miner Impala Platinum (Implats) on Friday reported a 9,9% increase in basic headline earnings per share for the year to June 2005 of 4 325 cents, from 3 924 cents in the group’s 2004 year. The group declared a final dividend per share of 1 800 cents.
The Springboks will play their final match of the 2005 Tri-Nations against New Zealand on Saturday. A win will give them back-to-back titles in the competition, something only achieved previously by their opponents. Defeat will almost certainly mean second place in the log, for no one in their right mind believes that in the current circumstances Australia can win in New Zealand a week later.
Failed brakes apparently caused the school bus accident that claimed the lives of three pupils and the driver in Cape Town on Thursday, education authorities said. About 40 pupils were injured when the bus overturned in Kloofnek road in Cape Town, the provincial education department said in a statement.
Seventeen people including many children died and about 30 were injured early on Friday when a blaze ripped through a dilapidated apartment building in Paris occupied by African families. The origin of one of the worst blazes in post-war Paris was not known, but a criminal investigation is under way. The fire was a reminder of a blaze on April 15 this year in the central Opera district in which 24 people, also immigrants, perished in a hotel.