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/ 6 November 2003
The most profilic serial killer in American history yesterday confessed to 48 murders in order to save himself from execution. Relatives of some of the victims wept in the courtroom as the confession by Gary Ridgway (54) was read aloud by prosecutors. ”I killed so many women I have a hard time keeping them straight,” he said.
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/ 6 November 2003
United States officials have agreed ”in principle” to give Iraqis responsibility for a new security force that would tackle the growing insurgency, the head of Iraq’s governing council said on Wednesday. The concession by the US authorities comes at a time when deadly attacks are becoming more frequent.
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/ 6 November 2003
After 26 years speeding through the void at 16km a second, the spacecraft Voyager 1 has boldly gone where no spacecraft has gone before — to the edge of the solar system. Nasa scientists report today that the craft has buffeted into a region known as the termination shock, where the sun’s wind slams into the radiation from distant stars.
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/ 6 November 2003
Police have recovered 258 artworks, some by Dufy, Picasso, Buffet, Van Dongen and Cézanne, stolen in the most expensive art robbery ever in France. The police seized the works in a small van on the Avenue Georges V in central Paris on Monday, a spokesperson said yesterday.
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/ 6 November 2003
<b>Finalist – Corporations:</b> Eskom Cairn Lemon Project
David Mabaso can tell you a thing or two about the sweet and sour of life. The tall, 38-year-old son of farm labourers at Cairn Farm near Nelspruit, is a hero in his community after playing a central role in preventing them from being evicted and for negotiating tirelessly to get them a 45ha lemon orchard.
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/ 6 November 2003
You don’t have to be the chairperson of a multibillion-rand company with millions invested in a foundation or trust to get involved in corporate social investment (CSI). Employees earning a weekly wage can make as important a contribution as their bosses.
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/ 6 November 2003
Girls aged between 14 and 18 start applying their minds to career and education choices, so this is a good age at which to prevent their choices from being influenced by gender stereotyping. This was the reason why, on May 8 this year, more than 2 500 girl children from schools in disadvantaged communities across the country were invited to participate in Cell C’s Take a Girl Child to Work Day.
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/ 6 November 2003
Unless companies do research into the needs of the communities their corporate social investment projects will touch, they will not know at the end of the project whether they have satisfied any needs at all. Lulu Khumalo provides advice about one of the most basic requirements for a successful CSI initiative.
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/ 6 November 2003
Businesses must be careful not to impose on people what they think they need or what the companies want. A number of corporate social investment (CSI) projects that have been undertaken by companies have turned into white elephants because the companies may not have researched the needs of the community for which the initiative is intended.
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/ 6 November 2003
For those who havn’t noticed the writing on the wall, the increasing glare from the thinning ozone layer, causing you to need to wear sunglasses and the increasing incidents of skin cancers and cataracts, is a death sentence to all animal and birdlife — who can’t put on protective glasses and thus will gradually be blinded and become extinct. Ian Fraser takes a look at the bigger picture.