The men’s magazine market is vigorously over-traded. If you’re white, that is. Still, Sean O’Toole wonders whether SA’s new majietas’ title really is a major departure from the formula.
I wonder if the education big shots – those with the lion’s share of responsibility for the education system – sleep well at night. If I had their portfolios, I don’t think I would. The interminable list of education shortcomings, coupled with the hard fact that the lives of youngsters – and the future of our nation – are at stake, would keep me tossing and turning in a cold sweat.
There is a growing tendency in the news media to write on President Mbeki’s successor. This is little more than idle speculation.
More than 10 000 guns have been handed over voluntarily to the police since the start of a gun amnesty on January 1, the ministry of safety and security said on Tuesday. Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula has urged the public to hand over illegal firearms before March 31 to avoid prosecution.
Sudan’s government failed last year to stop atrocities in its western Darfur region, while Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe used intimidation and violence to remain in power, the United States State Department said in an annual report released on Monday.
British Petroleum’s (BP) R265-million empowerment deal with the Mineworkers Investment Company (MIC) and Women’s Development Bank Investment Holdings (WDBIH) avoids instantly the new sin of being ”narrow-based”. That is because both the MIC and the WDBIH are owned by charitable trusts and have the benefit of being unquestionably broad-based by design. The beneficiaries are ultimately miners and poor, rural women.
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/ 28 February 2005
”In May 2003, I was dragged away from a group of journalists by state security agents. After they abducted me, they put a hood over my head and held me for more than 10 hours.” Ongoing media intimidation is a sure sign of Zimbabwean government insecurity, writes Andrew Meldrum.
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/ 28 February 2005
Six people died and at least 11 were wounded when fighting broke out early on Monday in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, witnesses and medical personnel said. Witnesses said militias of the city’s Islamic courts clashed with residents in the northern part of the capital over the control of the bus traffic in the area.
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/ 28 February 2005
International efforts to mediate the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire have been buried by the government’s ”acts of war”, the West African state’s rebels said on Monday after pro-government militants attacked one of their positions in the restive west. More than 100 militants waged a pre-dawn attack near Logouale, about 450km north-west of Abidjan.