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/ 2 September 2005
The Louisiana coastline may have been so badly damaged by the hurricane because man-made engineering of the delta has led to erosion of natural defences, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. The engineering of the past 100 years has also disturbed natural barriers which traditionally prevented storm surges and protected against hurricanes, says the society.
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/ 2 September 2005
Malik has the nonchalant manner of any 14-year-old when he says ”I don’t know” or snaps at his little sister, Fatima. But his green eyes are ”those of a 40-year-old man”, his mother says, even a year after he survived the Beslan school hostage massacre. Sitting on a bench outside his family’s home, Malik Kolchakeyev already knows what questions are coming.
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/ 2 September 2005
Reading Shaun de Waal’s review of Zulu Love Letter (”Woman on the Verge” ) left me wondering just which Zulu Love Letter he had watched. The review is a superficial dismissal of the film; his narrow critical vision does gross injustice to such a rich and layered film.
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/ 1 September 2005
A cholera epidemic in West Africa has killed almost 500 people out of more than 31 000 cases registered this year across the region, the United Nations World Health Organisation said on Thursday. The highly infectious disease, which comes from contaminated water and food, causes diarrhoea, dehydration and potentially death.
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/ 1 September 2005
The 15-day floor-crossing window for MPs and MPLs to change parties without losing their seats got under way on Thursday and brought some surprise defections. Among these were African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) MP and Chief Whip in the National Assembly Louis Green, and ACDP KwaZulu-Natal MPL and leader Reverend Hawu Mbatha.
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/ 1 September 2005
The Swedish government wants all of the country’s new cars to be equipped with devices that check sobriety by 2012 to prevent drunken driving, a minister said on Thursday. Buses and other heavy vehicles should be required to install the devices even earlier, Communication Minister Ulrica Messing wrote in an opinion article.
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/ 1 September 2005
A woman who tried to enrol at a nursing school by impersonating the wife of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was on Thursday sentenced to 420 hours of community service by a Harare court. Rosemary Chakacha (24) phoned a matron at a Harare hospital on September 13 last year, saying she was Grace Mugabe and that she was sending two girls to be enrolled immediately.
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/ 1 September 2005
Mittal Steel is to ask the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Friday for an order interdicting members of labour union Solidarity from going on a pay strike. Documents to this effect were filed with the court on Wednesday, said the company’s spokesperson Tami Didiza. Arguments are to be heard on Friday.
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/ 1 September 2005
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The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) has rejected a proposed commission of inquiry into claims of a plot against former deputy president Jacob Zuma. ”The commission of inquiry on its own can’t resolve the underlying political problems we face,” Cosatu President Willie Madisha said on Thursday.