In fading light, the murmur of a cool stream soothes your jangled nerves. Your back is slowly massaged, stretching muscles exhausted from the long commute home. Before you know it, you’re fast asleep. It sounds like treatment you might get at an exotic resort. But a Japanese company has developed a sleep machine system it says will deliver a full eight hours of z’s in your own bedroom.
Right-wing leader Eugene Terre’Blanche took to the streets of Potchefstroom on a black horse on Friday to wild cheers from a mainly black audience who shouted ”Welcome out” and tried to shake his hand.
Terre’Blanche returns to new world
Struggling Liberia has insisted it is ready for sanctions on its diamond and timber industries to be lifted, but a wary United Nations, mindful of security concerns, has again advised that they remain in place. Liberian leader Gyude Bryant appeared before the UN Security Council last week asking that sanctions be lifted to boost the west African state’s war-battered economy and curb unemployment that has crested beyond 80%.
The June 30 deadline banks have to re-identify their clients could be extended, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel indicated on Friday. During an address to the National Assembly on his department’s budget vote, Manuel said he was aware that the ”Know you Customer” campaign had caused some controversy.
A raid for evidence of corruption complicates an ex-premier’s march to succeed the prosecutions boss: Stefaans Brummer, Wisani waka Ngobeni, Sam Sole.
New details of the strife between Public Protector and NDPP is revealed in correspondence obtained by the Mail & Guardian…
”Feared by criminals, loved by peers,” runs the motto of the directorate of special operations of the NPA – the Scorpions.
Bulelani Ngcuka makes a public apology for ”losing his cool” but refuses to apologise to Lawrence Mushwana personally: Ferial Haffajee, Sam Sole …
The Democratic Alliance calls it the kiss of death — but the marriage of the African National Congress and the New National Party is symptomatic of a new politics of survival that other political parties could resort to. After the NNP federal council meeting last weekend, the two parties announced they would strengthen their working relationship, a move widely interpreted as the ANC swallowing up the dying Nats.
A coup attempt was thwarted overnight on Thursday in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where an officer announced on national radio he had taken control in Kinshasa and the government had resigned, Information Minister Vital Kamerhe said on Friday.