Twenty-one church leaders were arrested in Zimbabwe yesterday when they tried to deliver a petition to the police urging an end to its abuse of power.
A wrenching 13-minute video tape of the last moments of the crew of the space shuttle Columbia shows them joking, waving at the camera, and talking excitedly of experiencing re-entry to the earth’s atmosphere.
Hans Blix yesterday hailed as significant a promise by Iraq to destroy its illegal Samoud 2 missiles. The cutting-up or crushing of the missiles in front of TV cameras would amount to a propaganda coup for Iraq.
An insidious new branch office for censorship has been opened. This one is managed by big business’s counterparts for censors, what might be termed its “brand police”, the thug component of corporate fascism
Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang responds to a Mail & Guardian report that quoted her as saying the government will not elevate HIV/Aids above other diseases by giving it priority attention
Fog collection is an innovative solution to the problem of water shortage. Researchers have been quick to latch on to it, but many countries have been surprisingly slow to implement it.
There is another world leader out there who is like Saddam Hussein. He has been in material breach of United Nations Security Council resolutions for years. He flagrantly disregards the Geneva Convention. He has ordered the death and destruction of an ethnic group within his nation-state domain
A message from the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts , which met in Gaborone, Botswana, from February 18 to 22, has pointed out that Lemmer missed an important date on February 22 — World Thinking Day
The government’s ability to implement its new school curriculum effectively is again under interrogation. This follows Minister of Education Kader Asmal’s quiet announcement that implementation of the Further Education and Training Curriculum will be delayed until 2006
A puzzle for you: name a truly brave politician. One of my nominations would be Robert J Dole. In 1998 Pfizer Corp recruited the senator for the launch of their new wonder drug, Viagra