British bank Barclays said on Tuesday that South Africa’s High Court had postponed a ruling on its bid to buy a majority stake in peer Absa after an apartheid reparations group filed for an injunction. The injunction by Jubilee South Africa had pushed the court’s decision back one day, to Wednesday.
South African President Thabo Mbeki has agreed with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to wait for a report on Zimbabwe by a UN special envoy before taking any course of action, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reports.
Shared combs and brushes have been banned from Britain’s lower House of Commons in a bid to thwart headlice, a newspaper said on Wednesday. The Sun reported that communal hairbrushes and combs are being axed under health and safety regulations.
A court sentenced a Pakistani man to seven years in jail after he pleaded guilty to kidnapping and robbing South Africa’s number two diplomat in Malaysia last year. Nisar Ahmad Khan (36) was sentenced to three years for his involvement in the kidnapping of South Africa’s deputy high commissioner Cornelius van Niekerk Scholtz and four years for stealing the diplomat’s cheque book, cash and cellphone.
Leaders of the world’s eight richest and most powerful nations converge on a heavily-guarded luxury Scottish golf resort on Wednesday, facing the daunting twin challenges of pulling Africa out of dire poverty and slamming the brakes on global warming.
Two of the most famous props in United States film history — light sabres belonging to Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader of Star Wars fame — will go under the hammer in an auction to be held in late July. The Jedi knight’s light sabre, owned by Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz, is estimated to sell for between 000 and 000.
An American woman has given birth to a third, healthy triplet 13 years after the first two were delivered. Debbie Beasley’s youngest daughter, Laina, was born five months ago after spending 13 years in a freezer chilled to -235C. Laina also survived her mother’s near-fatal reaction to the fertility drug Lupon and an eight-hour drive across the baking Californian desert while she was still a two-celled embryo.
The past few weeks brought a spate of complaints from the left. The Young Communist League, the Communications Workers’ Union and members of the Zimbabwe Solidarity and Consultation Forum were all unhappy with various reports. Piers Pigou, of the Zimbabwe Torture Victims Project, wrote to complain that a report, "Anti-Zim front fractures" (March 24), was "inaccurate and lazy journalism".
Thulane Gcabashe possesses the modesty to realise that being CEO of a company such as Eskom merely offers a chance to make a small contribution to a phenomenally huge project. He is about to lead Eskom into what he calls "a new era of growth" in the form of a R93-billion capital expansion phase, which, he readily admits, "will never be completed in my time".
You should understand that there’s a serious lack of genuine choice in the films we see in South Africa. This is something that’s hidden in plain sight. Almost all the films you see advertised reflect the product chosen by two distributors. Here are some sites where you can browse through vast numbers of current and past films that you’ve been deprived of without knowing.