Appearing by turns pensive and quizzical, Saddam Hussein returned to public view on Monday when Iraq’s special tribunal released video images of the former president being interrogated. A tribunal statement said he was being questioned about a 1982 massacre at a Shia village north of Baghdad, one of the cases expected to arise at his trial.
Concerned that his pate is starting to resemble an old cricket pitch that’s devoid of turf, champion legspinner Shane Warne is undergoing replacement treatment to regenerate his peroxided blond locks. The notoriously image-conscious Warne discovered he was losing his hair during a recent trip to a hairdresser.
Screen idol Brad Pitt was almost in tears when he visited a hospital in Durban in May to be confronted with the young victims of HIV/Aids. Pitt was experiencing for the first time the circumstances under which millions of children on the continent live and often die.
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A decision to sack Deputy President Jacob Zuma after he was implicated in alleged corruption in the trial of Durban businessman Schabir Shaik could have dire consequences for the government and the African National Congress, said a political analyst on Monday.
Up to 1 000 teenage boys have been separated from their parents and thrown out of their communities by a polygamous sect to make more young women available for older men, Utah officials claim. Many of these ”lost boys”, some as young as 13, have simply been dumped on the side of the road in Arizona and Utah.
Michael Jackson, one of the world’s biggest pop stars, was acquitted on Monday on all charges of molesting a teenage boy at his Neverland ranch. The 46-year-old singer, who faced up to 18 years in prison had he been found guilty, reached for a tissue and wept as the clerk of the court finished reading the not guilty verdicts.
Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin spoke to the <i>Mail and Guardian</i> about the current renegotiating of shareholder compacts with the state owned enterprises, the role of the public enterprise’s role in industrial policy and about the possibility of opening up our skies.
Old Mutual MD Roddy Sparks epitomises the company’s energy. On Thursday the insurance giant threw a big bash to celebrate 160 years of existence. Yet, with its new-found empowerment partners, the company has confidently branded itself the "New Mutual". Well, there is nothing like acquiring a young partner to make one feel new again.
The health of an economy is measured by its profitability. This is true for any economy in which the private sector dominates. Declining profitability leads to a drop in investment and, hence, lower employment. When considering what drives growth and unemployment in the long run, we need to look at the evolution of profits and capital accumulation.
Malawian civil society has welcomed tax reforms and subsidies for agricultural inputs in the 2005/06 budget that will ease the burden of small-scale farmers plagued by poor harvests again this year. Unveiling the budget on Friday, Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe described the reforms as an attempt to "improve the economic buying power of individual Malawians".