DAVID SHAPSHAK, Cape Town | Saturday 7.30pm STRUGGLING against a strong north-westerly wind South Africa bounced back from a string of humiliating defeats to beat Australia 10-9 in a Tri-Nations clash at Newlands on Saturday. In a hard-fought battle in which the Cape Town wind forced both teams to resort to unglamorous but sensible kicking […]
THE provision of information technology is difficult when 50% of South Africa’s 37000 schools do not even have electricity, Education Minister Kader Asmal told MPs on Thursday. He also said 60% of the schools do not have telephone connections, while 24% do not have clean water. Asmal said there has to be a rationalisation of […]
SIX foreign aid workers have been taken hostage in Kolahun, Lofa County, north of Liberia’s capital, Monrovia. Three of those taken work for Medical Emergency Relief International while the others are from Medecins sans Frontieres and a US charity called International Rescue Committee. Witnesses reported that armed men entered MERLIN’s compound in Kolahun, near the […]
THE Cape Times faces a R3-million defamation claim for publishing on its front page a prominent photograph of a man being detained by police for questioning at the Cape Town International Airport in connection with the bomb blast at the Planet Hollywood restaurant in August last year. A High Court summons has been served, and […]
SOME 100 bodies have been found dumped in four wells in war-torn central Angola, public television reported on Friday. The bodies were found Thursday in wells in the Chipeta region of Bie province, the television station reported, broadcasting pictures of the scene. Angolan authorities blamed the killings on the rebel National Union for the Total […]
SOUTH AFRICA plans to proceed with legislation incorporating the Geneva Conventions into law. In a statement marking the 50th anniversary of the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August, 1949, the government said it accords a ”high priority” to the observance of international humanitarian law. Last year, South Africa signed the Statute of the International Criminal […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday 3.50pm. A ZAMBIAN separatist leader who fled to the South African High Commission in Lusaka last week after being linked to a rebel attack in Namibia has been arrested, Zambian police said Saturday. Imasiku Mutangelwa, leader of the separatist Barotse Patriotic Front (BPF), was detained at the high commision late […]
THE government and the 12 public sector trade unions are on a collision course after government’s announcement on Thursday afternoon that it will not revise its latest wage offer.The state’s offer, tabled earlier last week, provides for teachers and the lowest-paid public workers to receive a 7% pay rise. 13
Lauren Shantall She’s this year’s Vita award star and everyone wants a piece of her, myself included. With our interview at the announcement bash at Sandton’s Civic Gallery constantly being interrupted by fans, photographers and friends – I start to wonder why Jo Ractliffe isn’t enjoying the limelight a tad more. But no, a somewhat […]
Charlotte Raven Body Language It’s not often that one is moved by watching TV and I am no exception. But the other day I was, by – of all things – Bjrk’s new video. All Is Full of Love, directed by Chris Cunningham, is an intimate, affecting portrait of the sexual love between two robots. […]