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/ 21 November 2003
The preposterous notion that reading a JM Coetzee novel is less challenging than watching a cricket match has been propagated. Not quite in these austere sports pages, but in the pull-out section that accompanies the Mail & Guardian. Nonetheless, the notion must be resisted and rejected.
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/ 21 November 2003
The game on Saturday between Kaizer Chiefs and Wits University in the Coca-Cola Cup may not be on the same level of intensity and pride as that of the Soweto Derby rivalry, but it is one that can conjure up the biggest upset in the Coke competition to date since the Coke Challenge of 1995.
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/ 21 November 2003
The November 15 suicide bombing in Istanbul fits clearly into the pattern of al-Qaeda’s targeting of Jewish interests, as well as its determination to punish the United States’s allies for supporting the invasion of Iraq, counter-terrorism experts said this week.
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/ 21 November 2003
The United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, on Tuesday launched an appeal for -billion to help with what his organisation has described as 21 of the world’s forgotten crises, overlooked partly because of the focus on Iraq and Afghanistan.
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/ 21 November 2003
Human rights groups and green campaigners believe that companies’ glossy publications extolling their environmental and social record are unsatisfactory, with fewer than half of 56 leading lobby groups saying that these are ”believable”, a new survey shows.
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/ 21 November 2003
The mighty Coca-Cola corporation has given evidence to a small village council in southern India in an attempt to keep open a huge bottling factory, which is threatened with closure following allegations that it is sucking the community dry.
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/ 21 November 2003
Private military companies — or mercenaries, as some prefer to call them –should play a bigger role as peace enforcers in conflict areas around the world, Wits University academic Natashia Chhiba argues. In her PhD thesis, Chhiba argues that the UN and AU should hire private armies to secure peace because they do not come with political baggage.
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/ 21 November 2003
A radical Hindu political party in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, and a key ally of the country’s ruling party, is encouraging Hindus to have more children because of fears of a Muslim population explosion. The militant Shiv Sena Party said that couples with more than 10 children will be given gifts of gold or silver.
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/ 21 November 2003
Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels on Tuesday bludgeoned to death nine children they had earlier abducted as well as three others they found in a village in northern Uganda, army sources said. The attacks follow a week of intense LRA operations in the area in which up to 100 civilians have been reported to have been massacred.
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/ 21 November 2003
Martina Navratilova flew back to the East this week. If it was less a homecoming than a continuation of her extraordinary return to tennis, Navratilova’s journey to Russia was still freighted with some dark and sombre memories. Her Czech past is the key source of her legacy as a great athlete.