South Africa must have the biggest mall culture in the world. I discovered this on arrival. If you want to check out what the different classes and cultures of South Africa feel like, go hang out in the mall. Any mall. (Well, any northern suburbs mall. The malls in Soweto and the southern suburbs are a bit different, of course.) Everything happens in the mall.
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president, has rejected a request from Equatorial Guinea for the extradition of 70 alleged mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in the West African country. Mugabe and Kembo Mohadi, his home affairs minister, met with two envoys sent by Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Equatorial Guinea’s president, the government-controlled Herald newspaper reported over the weekend.
‘Coup’ trial to start on Monday
An urgent bid to free right-wing leader Eugene Terre’Blanche after an alleged parole violation will be made in the Pretoria High Court on Monday, his lawyer said. Terre’Blanche was arrested at a guest house in Bethlehem at about 3pm on Sunday for allegedly being outside the area to which he is restricted.
United States President George Bush stood accused of appropriating the Olympic movement for political means on Sunday night, amid reports he was planning to visit Athens later this week to watch some sporting events, including a potential gold-medal winning bid by the Iraqi football team.
Governments may have to persuade people to eat less meat because of increasing demands on water supplies, according to agricultural scientists investigating how the world can best feed itself. They say countries with little water may choose not to grow crops but trade in ”virtual water”, importing food from countries which have large amounts of water to save their supplies for domestic or high-value uses.
The United States was on Sunday accused by Palestinian leaders of destroying hopes for peace in the Middle East by giving its covert support to Israel’s expansion of controversial settlements in the West Bank. American officials are privately admitting they have abandoned their demands that Israel freeze settlement activity, and have given Jerusalem tacit permission to build thousands of new homes on the disputed land.
Why is the South African online environment so short on women-focused destinations? Matthew Buckland says it’s part of the medium’s slow upturn.
Is there a big hole in the method the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) uses to audit copy sales? Allan Greenblo, former managing director of BDFM, explains how easy it is for figures to be artificially boosted.
As a former British Prime Minister said, you need to ask a woman when you want something done. She was, of course, a woman. Harry Herber looks at how that statement applies to the local advertising, media and communications industry.
The draft "prohibition of hate speech" bill has Reggie Manyakara arguing that the right to equality wins out against the right to freedom of expression.