It’s a special offer for this month only: a race-based bonus in the name of integration, diversity and the good Lord himself. A church in Louisiana will pay white people to attend its services, offering per hour for those who attend its Sunday services and for anyone who comes on Thursday.
On Sunday, April 6, at the Al Kindi hospital in downton Baghdad, Samia Nakhoul stumbled across the most horrific thing she had ever seen. In the last, chaotic days of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Nakhoul, the Gulf bureau chief of Reuters, had taken to touring the hospitals daily to monitor the casualties from the blitzkrieg of American bombing that was battering the Iraqi capital.
Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s inspiring announcement last week about a herbal remedy for Aids-related diseases was yet further proof of our health department’s imaginative approach to crisis.
From the moment Graeme Smith won the toss at Edgbaston, he defied a recent spate of Test-match results at this venue by batting first. In recent times, the teams batting here first have lost.
South Africa went on trial this week: a trial of conscience, integrity and commitment to the values enshrined in our republic’s founding document. It is time for the nation to ask what our attitude to malfeasance is.
Analysts cautiously welcomed the Randgold & Exploration Company’s black empowerment foray this week, saying the novel asset-swap element in its R235-million deal with consortium Phikoloso Mining was a positive development.
The spectre of falling inflation has prompted growing demands for further interest rate cuts. But some experts have warned that higher wage settlements and buoyant credit demand may delay such a decision by the Reserve Bank.
Life-saving nevirapine may soon be banned for use in mother-to-child transmission cases. How has this absurd situation — the latest in the continuing tragicomedy surrounding Aids treatment — arisen?
A likely consequence of the Darrel Bristow-Bovey debacle is that lawyers will become involved. While nothing has yet been heard from Random House’s legal team on Bristow-Bovey’s "adaptation" of passages from Bill Bryson’s <i>Notes From a Big Country</i> in <i>The Naked Bachelor</i>, Zebra Press appears to be warming up for the courts.
New Labour’s obsession with form over content has become a cancer at the heart of the Blair administration.