”It is simply undeniable that the state of Israel is a settler-colonial undertaking, where Jews have constituted themselves as a majority by immigration, military force and legal device — including a bar on the return of Palestinian refugees,” writes member of the Cape Town Progressive Jewish Congregation, Rabbi David Hoffman.
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A night vigil will be held in Durban on Tuesday night for former deputy president Jacob Zuma. It will be supported by members of the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu), the African National Congress Youth League, the South African Communist Party and others as a show of solidarity.
Lleyton Hewitt is adamant that his fiery willingness to argue and dispute decisions does not give him an unfair edge over infuriated opponents. The 24-year-old Australian has never been far from controversy in his career and during his 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (7/9), 6-3 fourth round Wimbledon win over Taylor Dent on Monday, the sparks were flying again.
Lance Armstrong has shaken off a crash in his preparation for this Saturday’s Tour de France first stage, a 19km time trial, and appears ready for his bid to win a seventh consecutive yellow jersey on what will be his retirement race. The 33-year-old American escaped with only a cut to his face after crashing on his time-trial bike in training on Sunday.
Some of the world’s most inventive scientists were on Monday awarded grants totalling -million to turn their outside-the-box ideas into practical solutions to the 14 greatest problems besetting human health today. Among the 43 projects to receive funding are several aiming to produce vaccines that do not require refrigeration.
Australia is likely to join New Zealand and Britain in a call to ban Zimbabwe from international cricket because of human rights abuses by the Harare government, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on Tuesday. Australia is not scheduled to play cricket this year in Zimbabwe.
More than two million workers supported Monday’s stayaway in protest against job losses, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) asserted. It said this was a clear signal to government and employers that more should be done to create jobs and stop retrenchments.
As an actor he had a sidekick called Bonzo. And as politician, he never quite lived down his quip to start bombing Russia in five minutes. But in life Ronald Reagan was forgiven most of his faults, and in death America now regards him as the greatest of them all.
The entertainment industry on Monday scored a landmark victory in its effort to crack down on the illegal file-sharing of music and films. In a ruling that could spell the end for the ”peer-to-peer” networks that have flourished online, the United States supreme court said software makers can be held liable for enabling computer users to copy protected work without permission.
The ongoing fracas around the retirement annuity business will no doubt have a deeply negative impact on our savings rate. Currently, South Africa’s savings rate is among the lowest in the world at just under 15% of gross domestic product a fraction of the 36% savings rate of South-East Asia.