Father and son mining magnates Brett and Roger Kebble will appeal to the Constitutional Court after the Supreme Court of Appeal struck from the roll their application on seven share-price manipulation charges. The Kebbles argued that some of the charges they faced were civil and not criminal offences.
Until recently Mr Smith had a microscopic penis. As he browsed bookshops for biographies of Napoleon it cowered in the draperies of his underwear, an embryonic chipolata, a coy love-prawn. Mrs Smith tried to reassure him, but he was certain that the harpies at her depraved book-club gatherings talked of nothing else, crooking little fingers and revelling in his genetic betrayal.
One of South Africa’s most senior judges, KwaZulu-Natal Judge President Vuka Tshabalala, has warned that some judges will consider returning to private practice if the government’s proposed Bills aimed at reining in errant judges becomes law.
Judge Tshabalala told the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> that colleagues told him they would quit the Bench if the draft laws were enacted in their current form.
An alliance of United Kingdom MPs, human rights groups and survivors of the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan on Thursday launched a campaign for bolder international intervention to stop the bloodshed. The alliance is calling for the United Nations to authorise peace-enforcement operations to be led by African Union troops.
The board of the World Bank on Thursday approved the controversial nomination of Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld’s deputy at the Pentagon, as its new president.
Wolfowitz was assured of board approval after he won over European diplomats during a five-hour charm offensive in Brussels on Wednesday.
United States spy agencies were ”dead wrong” in ”almost all” of their pre-war judgements about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction capability, a commission said on Thursday. The report reveals that US intelligence still knows ”disturbingly little” about the weapons programmes in other potentially dangerous nations.
A new book collects the writing of South Africa’s literary lion, Es’kia Mphahlele. In this edited extract from one essay, he describes how reading books enriched him as a writer.
"In Africa I think art is still very close to life. And issues [that] African artists are dealing with are issues of life". Brenton Maart asks top curator Simon Njami what makes African art African.
<b>NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Director Wes Anderson’s main theme and form in <i>The Life Acquatic</i> are the same as those of his previous film, <i>The Royal Tenenbaums</i>, writes Shaun de Waal.
The 2005 <i>BusinessMap</i>/<i>Business Report</i> Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Awards were announced in Sandton on Thursday night, with the prestigious BEE deal of the year going to Grasslands Development Trust’s purchase of 100% of Grasslands Agriculture. The awards celebrate the top achievers in BEE.