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/ 27 January 2004
The entry of a new low-fare airline, and the price war that has erupted between budget carriers, may lead to "someone getting hurt", John Morrison, CEO of the Airline Association of Southern Africa warned last week. Morrison’s comments came as a new airline, 1Time, started selling tickets for the Johannesburg to Cape Town route.
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/ 27 January 2004
As in Lewis Carroll’s <i>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland</i>, nothing is ever as it appears on the surface in what one journalistic wag has nicknamed "Mugabeland". This is Zimbabwe, the politically and economically tattered Southern African country President Robert Mugabe has straddled like a Colossus since independence in in 1980.
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/ 27 January 2004
The World Social Forum (WSF) took a historic step in moving from Brazil to India this year, but there is plenty of room for improvement, say activists, convinced that the global gathering should head to Africa in 2006. Delegates at the forum have welcomed suggestions of an African city as host
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/ 27 January 2004
”Remember that guy, the one who was married!” one cried. ”My mother ran into the love of her life at a conference and nearly left my father,” another friend added quietly. ”I left my bag in his boot,” someone confessed. And the winner: ”I shagged him in the conference room.”
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/ 27 January 2004
There is a dispiriting resemblance between recent news about former Yugoslavia and news about Iraq, the two places that bracket the modern era of intervention. Several factors suggest the necessity not only for reform, but for a new modesty
in the West’s approach to intervention.
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/ 27 January 2004
A heated debate is underway in Swaziland about whether children who fail English should be forced to repeat the academic year. ”The English language requirement is a millstone around the neck of every Swazi school child,” says Agnes Khumalo, a public school teacher in the northern Hhohho province.
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/ 27 January 2004
Hobbits, wizards and elves are marching on the Academy Awards, with The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King emerging as front-runner for Hollywood’s top honour. Voters in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences never have crowned a fantasy film as best picture.
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/ 27 January 2004
It seems the waiting is finally over for Mzonke ”The Rose of Khayelitsha” Fana to fight for the WBC junior lightweight title. But Fana, the WBC international champion, will first have to brush Rand Suico aside in April. Fana occupies the number-one spot while the undefeated Filipino is rated second.
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/ 27 January 2004
Tottenham Hotspur striker Freddie Kanoute stole the headlines on Monday as he scored twice to give Mali an opening 3-1 in the African Nations Cup over Kenya while co-favourites Senegal could only draw 0-0 with Burkina Faso in the other Group B match.
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/ 27 January 2004
Italian-based Siyabonga Nomvethe scored twice in the second half to give South Africa a 2-0 victory against minnows Benin in an African Cup of Nations Group D match played in Sfax on Tuesday. Benin belied their minnow status by taking the game to the South Africans and should have received a penalty midway through the first half.