New Zealand teams had a poor Super 12 season but the All Blacks are beginning to look ominously good ahead of the Tri-Nations Grant Shimmin in Wellington In terms of the Super 12 and specifically the knock-out stages, this year was a case of New Zealand rugby sailing into completely uncharted waters. A few weeks […]
Online play was meant to be the shape of gaming to come, but Steven Poole explains why most of the wired community prefers to play offline There has been a lot of hype over the past few years about online play being the inevitable shape of all future video-gaming. So much so that a casual […]
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The way narrative is embedded in time is a fascinating subject, and one with which storytellers have experimented in many interesting ways. Martin Amis’s novel <i>Time’s Arrow</i> tried to tell a life-story backwards, from death to birth, and it made powerful reading, but what the book really proves is that you can’t actually tell a story backwards.
THE Zimbabwe government on Tuesday sacked the governing body of the country’s Grain Marketing Board (GMB) in a bid to ensure food security, Lands and Agricultural Minister Joseph Made said on Tuesday. Made said the move was to allow the government to be directly involved in the operations of the parastatal which is responsible for […]
AT least 10_250 workers in the timber industry will lose their jobs if the government goes ahead with its planned compulsory acquisition of forest plantations for its land resettlement programme, the Zimbabwe Standard reported on Tuesday. The Zimbabwe Timber Producers’ Federation (ZTPF), which contributed significantly to Zimbabwe’s industrial output last year, has registered its displeasure […]
THE Nigerian government Tuesday announced the names of 16 prospective bidders for a majority stake in its state-run telecoms company, Nitel, drawing an instant denial from France Telecom. The government privatisation agency, the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), in a formal statement given to reporters, named France Telecom and firms from Egypt, Korea, Malaysia and […]
NIGERIAN police on Tuesday shot dead a suspected armed robber, and a mob set ablaze and killed five of his colleagues after they failed in their attempt to rob a bank, Lagos police boss said. The six were a part of a 14-man gang which had attempted to rob a bank at noon in central […]
PRESIDENT Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) arrived in Dar Es Salaam on Tuesday for unprecedented talks with his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni, who has troops backing rebels in the DRC. On Wednesday, he is due to have his first meeting as head of state with Museveni. – AFP
PRESIDENT George W. Bush on Tuesday announced he had picked career diplomats Robert Geers Loftis and Michael Malinowski as US ambassadors to Lesotho and Nepal, respectively. Both nominations require US Senate confirmation. Loftis has held the post of deputy chief of mission in Maputo since 1999, while Malinowski has served as Deputy Chief of Mission […]