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/ 22 February 2005
South African President Thabo Mbeki criticised the United States for calling Zimbabwe an ”outpost of tyranny” saying, in an interview published on Tuesday, that it went against Washington’s efforts to promote democracy. South Africa has served as an important mediator with its troubled neighbour, trying to encourage reforms through a controversial ”quiet diplomacy”.
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/ 22 February 2005
A four-year-old boy escaped unscathed after falling from a fifth floor window in central China and landing in a lorry full of cushions, a news report said on Tuesday. The youngster crawled out of a window at his home in Jiaozuo, Henan province, and hit awnings as he plummetted towards the ground.
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/ 22 February 2005
He created a new style of journalism, bequeathed us the phrase ”fear and loathing”, was played on screen by Johnny Depp and Bill Murray, kept a peacock as a watchdog and claimed to have first seen United States President George Bush passed out in a bathtub in a Texas hotel.
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/ 22 February 2005
Majdi Galep (23) spent the past three years in jail for membership of a banned organisation, Hamas. On Monday he and about 500 other Palestinians were freed in the largest prisoner release in 10 years, one of the confidence-building measures agreed between the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas.
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/ 22 February 2005
Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, accused George Bush of plotting to assassinate him on Monday, and warned that all Venezuelan oil exports to the United States would stop in the event of his death. ”If I am assassinated, there is only one person responsible: the president of the United States,” Chavez said during his weekly radio and television show, Hello President.
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/ 22 February 2005
United States George Bush attempted to draw a line under the most acrimonious transatlantic split in a generation on Monday by reaching out to Europe over the Middle East, climate change and the common values that bind the two continents. ”America supports a strong Europe because we need a strong partner in the hard work of advancing freedom in the world.”
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/ 22 February 2005
The response by the editor of <i>The Economist</i>, Bill Emmott, to criticism levelled against the publication in the African National Congress’s newsletter recently is an interesting illustration of how the media can claim to provide balanced (sometimes even called "objective") coverage of issues while still setting a particular agenda.
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/ 22 February 2005
The SMME Forum, a body that represents small business, has given its backing to Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri on the issue of self-provisioning. It has, however, accused industry players of hypocrisy for criticising the minister on this issue.
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/ 22 February 2005
Futuregrowth Asset Management is the country’s pioneering socially responsible investment fund. It does things differently — from shopping centres in townships and rural areas to making social impact a key investment criterion. With 16 township and rural malls in eight provinces, the company has proven non-traditional markets can score investment returns averaging 14%.
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/ 22 February 2005
In the fight against Aids, prevention still matters, but prevention programmes in Africa have so far largely failed. "Safe sex" messages promoting abstinence or condom use have been largely ignored. Most Africans, like most Europeans, have sex young, often and with a variety of partners. Few regularly use condoms.