Activists in the Ekurhuleni municipality are claiming that informal settlements on the mining belt are being unlawfully demolished as a "clean-up" operation for the 2010 World Cup Soccer event and in order to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) of eradicating urban slums by 2015.
A Standard Bank automated teller machine (ATM) in Cullinan, east of Pretoria, was blown up in the early hours of Saturday, Pretoria police said. ”Unknown suspects blew up the ATM located within the Spar Centre at about 1.30 am,” said Inspector Paul Ramaloko. He said police found money scattered all over the floor.
Steel and coal from the Titanic have been transformed into a new line of luxury wristwatches that claim to capture the essence of the legendary ocean liner which sank in 1912. Watchmaker Romain Jerome SA billed its Titanic-DNA collection as among the most exclusive pieces showcased this week at the Baselworld trade fair.
One of the last remaining pieces of Berlin Wall in the centre of the German capital was removed by workers on contract to the government in a secretly engineered operation over the Easter weekend, it was revealed on Tuesday. In the hope that no one would notice because of the quiet bank holiday, the 18-metre strip of graffitied wall was yanked from its foundations in the dead of night.
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/ 15 January 2007
A pedestrian was run down and ”torn to pieces” by several cars on the R24 freeway between the OR Tambo International Airport and Johannesburg on Sunday night, Ekurhuleni Metro Police said. Inspector Mveli Nhlapo said the man, believed to be around 35-years-old, crossed the freeway near a pedestrian bridge when he was knocked down.
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/ 1 December 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/291293/aidsday06.gif" align=left>"Give us our daily bread …" is more than just prayer to 18-year-old Tisetso. It is her credo. While her friends are out clubbing and socialising, she carries the world on her shoulders. She is the head of her household. Like so many children in South Africa, her childhood was stolen from her when she was orphaned by HIV/Aids.
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/ 17 October 2006
Some economic analysts say the passion for land is dying out in modern South Africa as more rural residents move to urban areas to escape the crushing poverty that contrasts sharply with much of the country’s prosperous cities. But some SA women, who met on the weekend, showed land hunger was still strong at a conference with hundreds of activists, officials, traditional leaders and farmers.
Chad’s oil industry, with its output of 160 000 barrels a day, is tiny compared with Venezuela and Russia. But Chad is looking to exert more control over its natural resources. The President, Idriss Déby, recently announced he was kicking United States oil giant Chevron and Malaysian player Petronas — who together own 60% of the consortium running Chad’s -billion pipeline — out of the country for non-payment of taxes, a charge both companies deny.
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/ 15 September 2006
Tariq Ali discusses Lawrence Wright’s 480-page tome <i>The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda’s Road to 9/11</i>, already a United States bestseller.
With a six-person cast, <i>There’s No Room in This Bed</i> managed to squeeze in examinations of the power dynamics of personal relationships, but at times the piece battles to find its voice. Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon reviews.