Perhaps I shouldn’t have had lunch. Indeed, to be in with even a cat-in-hell’s chance of mustering the waspish proportions of Kylie Minogue, pictured on stage recently twirling a heavily corseted waist, one would surely have to forgo eating, drinking and probably all breathing whatsoever. Not to mention a few ribs. If you’ve ever been stuck in a lift, you will have a hint of what it is like to be laced into a corset.
It is time for Nicholas and Jonathan Oppenheimer to establish their places in the pantheon of philanthropists. They should leave the management of De Beers to professionals who owe their positions to their skills, rather than to historic family connections. Unlike diamonds, the shelf-life of the Oppenheimers at the helm of De Beers should not be forever.
An African bishop has announced that he will not accept more than 000 of funding to help Aids victims in his area because it comes from an American diocese that supported the election of a gay bishop two years ago. In a statement released to an American conservative Episcopalian website, Nzerebende announced: ”South Rwenzori diocese upholds the Holy Scriptures as true word of God.”
At first it appears as though the seriously ill Zimbabwean is speaking about someone else’s ordeal at the hands of the notorious Central Intelligence Organisation. Propped up in a hospital bed in South Africa two weeks after her release from Chikurubi Maximum Prison, it becomes apparent that the woman who wants to be known only as ”Itaai” is expressing her own traumatic experience.
The murder of a Free State government official and ANC member should be solved as a matter of urgency, the ANC in the province said on Tuesday. Noby Ngombane, an official in the premier’s office, was shot dead at his home in Bloemfontein last week.
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President Robert Mugabe’s claims of the triumph of his seizures of white-owned farms ring hollow at campaign rallies where people are hungry. Confronted by unenthusiastic crowds, Mugabe has admitted for the first time while campaigning that the country is confronted by widespread food shortages.
Iraq’s Parliament, meeting for only the second time since landmark elections two months ago, failed on Tuesday to pick a new speaker as Sunni, Shi’ite and Kurdish politicians bickered over Cabinet posts. Meanwhile, insurgents continued to cause mayhem as a car bomb exploded in the ethnically divided city of Kirkuk.
A dam ruptured in southern Afghanistan early on Tuesday, unleashing floods that killed at least six people and washed away hundreds of houses and shops, the provincial governor said. The United States military sent Black Hawk helicopters to help with rescue operations after the Bandi Sultan dam burst.
No written complaint has been laid against a South African police officer accused of sexually harassing another officer in Sudan, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. She was responding to media reports that a complaint has been laid against a South African police officer by a female officer, while stationed at El Fashir in Darfur.
Three nurses were hijacked with their mobile clinic between Tsolo and Maclear on Tuesday, the Eastern Cape health department said. Their assailants crashed the vehicle shortly after they hijacked it at about 4pm, health department spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said.