The price of petrol is expected to drop by 27 cents per litre from August 4, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Tuesday. This price decrease will affect all octane grades. ”Diesel with a 0,3% sulphur content is expected to drop
by 14 cents a litre in the wholesale price, and diesel with a 0,05% sulphur content by 15 cents a litre,” a statement said.
A senior Iraqi defence ministry official has become the latest government figure to be killed in Baghdad. A day after the attack, a suicide truck bomb claimed the lives of 10 Iraqis near a police station. Issam Jassem Qassim, a director general from the defence ministry, was shot dead outside his home in the south of the capital on Sunday night by three gunmen. His bodyguard was also killed.
Nine dead in Baghdad car bomb attack
While African women in Darfur were being raped by the Janjaweed militiamen, Arab women stood nearby and sang for joy, according to an Amnesty International report published on Monday. The songs of the Hakama, or the ”Janjaweed women” as the refugees call them, encouraged the atrocities committed by the militiamen.
Sudan tribunal orders amputation
Rape as a weapon of war
Henry Waxman is an awkward customer. For 30 years, this California congressman has probed, badgered and embarrassed United States administrations of every hue. As the senior Democrat on the House of Representatives’ government reform committee, Congress’s principal standing investigative panel, he is a difficult man to ignore.
The Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed Qureia, on Monday called on Yasser Arafat to put the people before his own interests amid a growing challenge to the Palestinian leader over corruption and cronyism. The prime minister said that Arafat, who is popularly known as Abu Amr, should recognise that ”Palestinian citizens are in deep need”.
Moment of crisis nears for Arafat
Eugene de Kock, the former Vlakplaas commander, testified on Monday that former security policeman Gideon Nieuwoudt showed malicious intent in detonating the Motherwell car bomb himself. De Kock was testifying at the TRC amnesty hearing of Nieuwoudt and two other former security policemen who are seeking amnesty for the Motherwell murders in 1989.
Voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) has been the subject of much discussion in the international press as services are rolled out in the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere. In South Africa, however, the debate has centred not on the numerous benefits that VOIP offers consumers but rather on why VOIP services are still being withheld by the government.
The South African conflict journalists covered in the lead story of <i>The Media</i> may not necessarily subscribe to war correspondent Martin Bell’s brand of advocacy journalism — one wouldn’t want to slap a category on them without their consent — but it’s plain that they all "care" and "know".
The finale of <i>Friends</i> may have drawn bigger spend than the Superbowl, but sitcoms are in a slump in the United States. Harry Herber returns from an extended trip with stories of the bizarre.
The second series in the political soapie that closed with Judge Hefer’s report is currently on air. Professor Tawana Kupe unpacks the media’s role in the intrigue.