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/ 15 September 2003
The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) has added its voice to the chorus of condemnation in Southern Africa regarding the closing of the Daily News, Zimbabwe’s only independent newspaper. Sanef has called for the decision to be immediately reversed.
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/ 15 September 2003
A new and expanding alliance of developing countries on Sunday left a doomed World Trade Organisation conference empty-handed but far from despondent, having flexed its new-found muscles. Led by heavyweights Brazil, India and China, the ”Group of 20 plus” also includes South Africa.
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/ 15 September 2003
Johannesburg-based newspaper <i>City Press</i> has published another exclusive story on Scorpions boss Bulelani Ngcuka’s alleged ties with the former apartheid regime. The newspaper claimed to have a police document revealing that Ngcuka had been granted a passport while in detention.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20455">Ngcuka is no spy, say Scorpions</a>
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/ 15 September 2003
This is a story about nature, animals and people. It is a story about personal commitment and collective dedication, about putting existing natural resources to best use and about public-private partnership. This is about an innovative approach developed in Marakele National Park in South Africa, which could become a model for saving the irreplaceable gems of sub-Saharan Africa: its national parks. In the beginning…
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/ 15 September 2003
Australia’s controversial policy of mandatory detention of asylum seekers has come under renewed pressure, this time from the country’s leading judges. Australian Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock has accused the courts of hearing asylum seeker cases more quickly than those of other litigants.
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/ 15 September 2003
If education and other services such as health and water are human rights, how will they be funded? Entitlement based on rights is becoming the international aspirational norm and not here, where the Constitution is explicit. Asmal’s valiant plan to extend free basic education illustrates an international conundrum.
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/ 15 September 2003
The European Commission was secretly preparing to sabotage plans to help poor countries trade their way out of poverty, as backstairs wrangling dominated the opening day of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) talks in Cancun, Mexico.
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/ 15 September 2003
The ”informer issue” has hung like a Damoclean sword over South African politics since the end of the apartheid era. How do we prevent those in the know from seeking to destroy the careers of people who get in their way when it suits them? There is an issue worth debating.
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/ 15 September 2003
For a walking dead man, Hamas leader Ismail Abu Shanab was unimpressed by the assassins who would one day come for him. ”I am not afraid,” he said as we sat drinking tea in his Gaza City home. ”If the Israelis want to kill me, they will… We are not afraid to die.” Two weeks ago Shanab met his predicted end.
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/ 15 September 2003
Students from the University of Pretoria packed a Pretoria Magistrate’s Court courtroom on Monday morning to attend the appearance on rape charges of four hostel mates — including two grandsons of apartheid-era minister of foreign affairs Pik Botha.