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Nearly three years ago Pakistan’s army chief General Pervez Musharraf led a strangely popular coup. There were no tanks on the streets, not a single shot was fired and no blood was spilt. Most Pakistanis applauded the arrival of the military after a decade of corrupt civilian governments.
The removal of Langa Zita, the South African Communist Party’s national coordinator, from the party’s top leadership is seen as more revealing of the party’s newfound assertiveness than the ousting of government ministers Jeff Radebe and Essop Pahad.
Dissenting Myburgh Commission member Christine Qunta has recommended that Deutsche Bank and Nampak should be referred to the prosecuting authorities for the role she alleges they played in last year’s crash of the rand.
The man who heads the likely empowerment component of the proposed second national fixed-line phone operator is the ex-bureaucrat who helped saddle SAA with the overpriced US executive Coleman Andrews. Kennedy Memani chairs Nexus Connexion, which was recommended by Icasa for a 19% stake.
An old killer is expected to return with a vengeance in the next few months and could claim even more lives in Southern Africa than the Aids epidemic. According to medical experts, heavy rains would awaken hordes of dormant mosquitoes that are expected to carry the malaria parasite far and wide.
Jonathan Jones assesses the creative talents of Saif al-Islam Gadaffi.
<b>Movie of the week:</b> <i>Birthday Girl</i> does not stun one into submission like <i>Moulin Rouge</i>, and it does not bring one to the edge of one’s seat like <i>The Others</i>, but it does entertain, writes Shaun de Waal.
Despite the overload of slow songs, the die-hard Ronan Keating fans in the audience had a good time, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
Riaan Wolmarans reviews Josh Groban’s self titled debut.