LUANDA, Oct 3 (AFP) – ANGOLA’S government has begun the process of privatising a major public bank, the Bank of Commerce and Industry (BCI). The state will sell off 51% of its shares in BCI, a bank with $4,5-million in capital, said a source close to the finance ministry. The government will inject another $1,5-million […]
A TOTAL of 22 candidates are to be interviewed for 17 vacant judges’ positions in nine divisions this week, the Judicial Service Commission said on Tuesday. The interviews are to take place at the Vineyard Hotel in Claremont, Cape Town, over the next three days. On Tuesday, the JSC is to interview six judges for […]
Hong Kong | Tuesday THE losses of international and US domestic airlines are set to skyrocket to as much as $12-billion this year following the terrorist attacks on the US, the world airline organisation said on Tuesday. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said it expected the losses of international carriers alone to rise to […]
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<i>Punk</i> is an epithet that gets tossed around with such abandon these days that it applies to a far wider range of music than it ever did when the Sex Pistols were around. Back then, all you needed was hair in spikes, safety pins through the nose, a cockney sneer, a healthy sense of nihilism and three chords to massacre on a cheap electric guitar, and you were bona fide punk.
The entertainment industry’s reactions to the disaster: shock, self-reflection, hypersensitivity, writes John Patterson.
In Salman Rushdie’s uneasy new novel, 55-year-old Malik Solanka, "retired historian of ideas, irascible dollmaker", takes refuge in New York after leaving his wife and three-year-old son in London. The United States for once, though, is not seen primarily as a place of second chances, of beginning again, even if in the course of the book Solanka is re-energised and reconciled to his past.
BARRY STREEK, Cape Town | Friday THE British government is “very concerned” about the decision by the African National Congress majority in Parliament’s safety and security committee to ban foreign investment in South Africa’s private security industry, saying it contravenes the 1998 agreement between the two countries to promote trade and investment. The proposed insertion […]
HOWARD BARRELL, JASPREET KINDRA, Johannesburg | Friday THE HIV/Aids epidemic has taken on “shattering dimensions” and now accounts for one-in-four of all deaths, according to the Medical Research Council’s (MRC) report into the virus that has been suppressed by the government. The report, in the opinion of many the most authoritative of its kind into […]
THE rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) has signed an agreement here agreeing to a total ban on anti-personnel landmines throughout territories under its control. The pledge was signed between Nhial Deng Nhial, president of the movement’s foreign affairs commission, in the presence of Geneva canton chancellor Robert Hensler. The southern Sudanese rebel group has […]