<b>REVIEW: </b> Sarah Penny’s <i>The Beneficiaries</i> (Penguin)
The poetic images that stake out the opening pages of this book give the reader fair warning of the emotionally bleak and morally difficult story it contains, writes Jane Rosenthal.
Sun City | Tuesday PEACE talks for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have run into more trouble as negotiations on the country’s political future deadlocked and rebels warned they would stop working with UN observers. The Rwandan-backed Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) rebel movement said it would not demilitarise two key towns in eastern […]
Harare | Wednesday ZIMBABWE’S opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said on Tuesday it would hold low-level talks with the ruling Zanu-PF on the future of the country in the aftermath of last month’s disputed presidential election. The talks, due to begin on Wednesday, follow recommendations from the Commonwealth which last month suspended Zimbabwe for […]
Nablus, West Bank | Thursday ISRAEL vowed on Thursday to block an urgent European peace mission from meeting Yasser Arafat as its army smashed into the West Bank city of Nablus, fighting intense battles with armed Palestinians. World leaders began moving to quell the bloodshed but seemed unable to keep up with the speed of […]
Harare | Tuesday PETA Thornycroft, the Mail& Guardian and The Telegraph’s correspondent in Zimbabwe, who was freed on Sunday on the orders of a High Court judge after she spent five days in police detention, will not face any charges at present. Lawyer Tapiwa Kujinga said on Tuesday from Harare that charges against Thornycroft had […]
Harare | Monday THE charge under Zimbabwe’s new media laws against journalist Peta Thornycroft who was arrested in the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe this week cannot go to court and is without foundation, lawyers said on Monday. Thornycroft, who is British-born but holds Zimbabwean citizenship, was arrested while going to Chimanimani to investigate reports of […]
STUART GRAHAM, Johannesburg | Thursday ALLEGATIONS that Deutsche Bank colluded with three prominent South African companies to depreciate the rand in 2001 are unfounded, the commission investigating the rapid decline of the currency heard in Johannesburg on Thursday. Niall Smith, a director of Deutsche Securities, a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, said asset swaps […]
THE United States is opposing the reappointment of a leading US
expert to head the UN’s top scientific panel on global warming and
is instead backing a candidate proposed by India, US officials said on
Wednesday.
SA was still faced with the problem of an unpatriotic press whose focus on the crime problem was deterring investors, according to Nelson Mandela.
The only smoke and mirrors are those invoked by McIntosh says MP Ronnie Kasrils.