As the day wore on, more and more injured young men wrapped in bandages were being carried across the sun-baked tiles of the courtyard in the Imam Ali shrine. In one alcove in the turquoise-tiled wall was a small makeshift hospital with two metal beds and a stack of drugs and bandages. Blood-soaked clothes floated in a metal bath outside.
The government of Zimbabwe may be planning to use food scarcity as a political weapon in next year’s elections, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. Millions of Zimbabweans are in danger of famine because the president, Robert Mugabe, has refused to ask for international aid, and there is increasing evidence to contradict his government’s claim that the country has sufficient food.
Ever since the publication of the second <i>King Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa (King II)</i> in 2002, South African corporates have sharpened their focus on their commitment to the "triple bottom line", an expanded baseline for measuring a company’s performance which includes an accounting of the impact of their activities on society and the environment.
When International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Jacques Rogge walks into a room and introduces himself, people instantly spring into action. This is because they think he’s choking to death on a herring-bone. But apart from having a glottal seizure for a surname, he is, by most accounts, a fairly popular fellow.
JSE Securities Exchange-listed Liberty Life has been on the operational high road for the past year — and it shows in its interim results to end-June. Headline earnings are up by 29,4% to R460,4-million, and headline earnings per share increased to 167,2c from 130c. Operating profit from life insurance business is up 32,6% to R335-million — but it’s not all good news.
Zimbabwe’s Information Minister Jonathan Moyo is being reined in by the Zanu-PF supreme decision-making body, the Politburo, for publicly attacking his rivals in the party leadership. This is the second time in two months that the Politburo has asked party boss President Robert Mugabe to deal with Moyo. But the president needs his out-of-control minister to win the coming elections.
Nathaniel Pretorius, affectionately known as Nat or NP by those close to him, lived an interesting life, as the Chinese would say. Although the corpse is still missing, events in the last week have caused experts to presume Nat dead. The official presumption of Nat’s demise was made on Saturday by the curator of his estate, Kortbroek van Schalkwyk.
Liverpool without Michael Owen? It’s like Japanese without cameras, Arsenal without Patrick Veira … it just doesn’t feel right. But it looks like that’s the way it’s going to be. Just when it looked like Owen was about to join Steve Gerrard, along came the news that the 24-year-old is set to leave his beloved Liverpool with a year left on his contract.
Jake White has a plan. Some of the previous incumbents of the Springbok coaching position have often claimed to have a plan, but White actually has one. If this were not the case the team to play New Zealand at Ellis Park on Saturday, announced on Tuesday, would deserve to attract a great deal more derision than it has.
The SAA Supa 8 kicks off this weekend with only one thing certain: new champions will be crowned. Last year’s winners, Jomo Cosmos, failed to make the top eight in the league last season and so are unable to defend their crown. Those who did end up in the table’s top half will be able to recoup some of the money they spent in the transfer market.