The domestic airline Sun Air, operating between Johannesburg and Cape Town, was liquidated on Tuesday and all flights have been cancelled until further notice, the managing director said. Rowald Kresfelder said the airline was liquidated at 5pm after suffering losses and developing a cash flow problem during the past four months.
More than a year ago, Volvo Car Corp. gave women employees a special project: design the car they would like to drive. The result — a roomy, 215-horsepower coupe — makes a statement about what women want. Simply put, they want more.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sitting in his car on the tarmac at Port-au-Prince airport early on Sunday morning waiting for the plane to take him to exile when the United States diplomat Luis Moreno tapped on his window. ”Mr President, with all due respect, the plane is 20 minutes away, I really need the letter,” Moreno said, meaning Aristide’s letter of resignation.
Still no Aristide asylum request
Senator John Kerry drove his last rival, John Edwards, out of the battle to secure the Democratic nomination to challenge George Bush in November’s presidential election, with a string of victories, according to early exit polls, in Super Tuesday primaries.
David Kay, the man who led the CIA’s postwar effort to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, has called on the Bush administration to ”come clean with the American people” and admit it was wrong about the existence of the weapons.
Iraq on Tuesday suffered its worst day of violence since the war’s end, when its majority Shia community was targeted in a series of sophisticated and simultaneous attacks that killed as many as 223 people and left its religious leaders blaming the Americans for multiple security failures.
‘Today war has been launched on Islam’
"This is the tale of a scatter cushion. A home-grown, hand-made scatter cushion. Lovingly crafted and sold for a pittance, I am sure, to a retailer at a little trading station in Hazyview (that shall remain nameless), where it was priced at a whopping R698." More and more tourists are being ripped off by local arts and crafts shops, writes Sharon van Wyk.
Ten years ago, sex between consenting adult men was illegal. Lesbian and gay people were, despite the promise of our Constitution, without practical defence or protection in or even from the law. Much has changed since then. But in the upcoming election, lesbian and gay voters are faced with a difficult choice.
“If you’re both a) a smoker, and b) a complete bastard, then you’ll know the joys of stealing someone else’s lighter, as well as the horror, pain and outraged anguish when some sonovabitch has stolen yours. (It’s hard to believe but there are some people who think this is a double standard)." This week Ian Fraser brings us the lighter side of Lighter Thievery, among other things.
The authorities in Swaziland are doing little to stem the flood of bogus "miracle Aids cures" in a country with one of the world’s highest HIV infection rates, according to a report in the latest edition of Science In Africa.