International condemnation of the violence that followed the May 15 parliamentary election in Ethiopia took on new force this week, with news that Britain had suspended -million in aid to the East African country. These funds will be put on hold until Ethiopia’s fraught political climate improves.
Premiership clubs, led by the European champions Liverpool, were three of the top four earners in last season’s Champions League, though Manchester United were not among them. Uefa revealed this week reveal that Liverpool generated £20,5-million from tele-vision and media revenues, as well as performance bonuses.
It wasn’t supposed to happen in the new South Africa, the country of Nelson Mandela that in the 1990s came to symbolise hope, resilience and the ”long walk to freedom”, an indelible inspiration to the entire world. No, it wasn’t supposed to happen anymore, preventing a newspaper from publishing a story about potential lawbreaking by the powers that be.
The recent Constitutional Court decision in the matter of a woman gang-raped by on-duty policemen has emphasised the court’s view that ”few things can be more important to women than freedom from the threat of sexual violence”. The court made this finding while holding that the minister of safety and security was liable for damages arising from a lawsuit instituted by the rape survivor.
Climate change is in danger of becoming the poor relation at the G8 summit. It has no pop icons throwing gala concerts or summoning up a fleet of small boats to transport protesters across the Channel. By contrast, Make Poverty History is proving the most popular mass movement of the year.
It was a mere 29 years ago that this date became an indelible mark on the national calendar — the day when black students took to the streets to protest against the use of Afrikaans as a mandatory language of instruction at schools nationwide. But, since 1994, the date has progressively meant less, with a generation of ”born frees’ indifferent to its importance.
Scott Parker flew into Tyneside this week to complete his £6,5-million transfer from Chelsea to Newcastle United. Parker is interrupting his holiday in Portugal — he was in the same complex as Alan Shearer — to travel to Newcastle where he will sign a three- or four-year contract.
A British bus company is testing a new secret weapon that it hopes will help forward its push to cut its polluting emissions — sheep urine. The company, Stagecoach, has fitted a bus in the southern English city of Winchester with a tank containing the animal waste, which is sprayed into exhaust fumes to reduce emissions of harmful nitrous oxides.
Gary Lineker this week attacked the ”murky” world of the football transfer business, telling a high court jury in London that Harry Kewell’s transfer from Leeds United to Liverpool was a deal that had tarnished the game’s reputation. The former
English captain says comments from a player’s agent irked him.
Two KwaZulu-Natal girls have been left traumatised after witnessing their father eat the flesh off their dead mother’s face on Friday morning, police said. After being apprehended by police, the Tugela Ferry man suddenly choked, became unconscious and died at the scene, said a police spokesperson.