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/ 6 February 2004
Is Sting trying to stay forever young? When listening to his latest album, Sacred Love (Universal), one gets the impression that he’s trying to be with it by dashing bits of fashionable genres into his music to win over new (and young) fans while trying to prove to the Sting faithful that he’s still the man, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 6 February 2004
Having starred for the past five years in the Oscar-nominated movie, Lost in his Portfolio, the minister formerly known as the arts and culture ambassador, has ridden off into the sunset to the land of the rising sun. Tokyo will now have its Little Ben, writes Mike Van Graan.
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/ 6 February 2004
Economists’ reacted on Friday to President Thabo Mbeki’s opening of Parliament and State of the Nation speech. Dennis Dykes, chief economist at Nedcor, said: "I agree with the president on the need for implementation … it is now just a question of applying [the framework] in practice."
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/ 6 February 2004
South African President Thabo Mbeki, under pressure publicly to declare that he would not go for an unconstitutional third term of office as head of state, appeared to poke fun at doomsday merchants in his opening of Parliament speech on Friday.
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/ 6 February 2004
The privatisation of South African state-owned enterprises (SOE) seems to have stalled, which, given independent research consultancy BusinessMap Foundation’s 2002 annual review title of <i>A Sense of Movement</i>, is very ironic. BusinessMap’s 2003 review is titled <i>A Change of Pace</i>.
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/ 6 February 2004
Government authorities in drought-ravaged Limpopo province are casting an acquisitive eye on nature reserves in a desperate attempt to avoid livestock deaths.
At least three provincial reserves have been earmarked for temporary cattle grazing and the decommissioning of a number of reserves for alternative long-term land use is being investigated.
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/ 6 February 2004
Time has run out for the Children’s Bill. Parliament says it cannot properly deal with the proposed legislation, which aims to establish a framework to protect the rights of the child, before the elections. This is a setback for the Ministry of Social Development, which wanted the legislation processed before the elections.
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/ 6 February 2004
Some prisoners should be granted a presidential amnesty as part of the celebration of 10 years of democracy in South Africa, says the SA Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights. The organisation wants all prisoners with less than three months of their sentences still to serve to be released.
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/ 6 February 2004
Former Sunday Times editor Mathatha Tsedu on Friday denied a report in the This Day newspaper that he would be the next editor of the weekly City Press newspaper. This Day reported that Media24, City Press’ owner, was to make an announcement on the matter next week.
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/ 6 February 2004
President Thabo Mbeki in his State of the Nation address to Parliament on Friday said that his government does not foresee making any policy changes. Mbeki highlighted some of the achievements of the past 10 years, but also noted the ”blemishes” of the past, giving a fleeting reference to the HIV/Aids pandemic sweeping the country.