Xa wonile … wonile Whether Deputy President Jacob Zuma should resign should not depend on his being tried and found guilty. If the accusations of his inability to live within his means are true (exposing him to the risk of a conflict between his official responsibilities and private interests); if he has been found by […]
A member of a suspected spy ring arrested in December last year in Zimbabwe on charges of selling information about President Robert Mugabe’s party to South Africa has been released on bail, a daily reported on Saturday.
The judgement in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption case should be ”interpreted” and lead to future investigations and prosecutions, says United Democratic Movement leader, Bantu Holomisa. Earlier this month, Shaik was found guilty of fraud and corruption and was also found to have had a generally corrupt relationship with former Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
What does the truth look like? Google, the company last week confirmed as the biggest media firm on the planet, rather hopes that it reads something like this: WO 2005/029368. According to that patent, Google is for the first time planning to rank news stories according to their accuracy and reliability as well as their topicality.
A Burundian journalist, arrested earlier this week by the secret services over an article deemed insulting to the country’s president, has been placed in detention pending trial, his lawyer said on Friday. The journalist was apparently on trial for ”an attack on the private life and honour and insulting the head of state”.
From luxury confectionery and designer clothes to imported beers and expensive cars, Chinese shoppers are buying as they have never bought before. Sales at restaurants and retail outlets are growing even faster than the spectacular 9% annual expansion of the economy.
If medical science is to be believed top Bafana Bafana scorer Shaun Bartlett is fit enough to play in Saturday’s crunch World Cup qualifying game against Ghana at FNB Stadium. A lingering pain resulted in the Bafana striker limping off the training pitch on Thursday — and Bartlett was consequently ”rested” from Friday’s final training session at Johannesburg Stadium.
Modelled on the 1988 ”Mandela at 70” campaign for the then imprisoned leader, ”Suu Kyi at 60” involves demonstrations at virtually all Burmese embassies to protest the imprisonment of a leader who won 82% of the seats in Burma’s last general election in 1990, but has never been allowed to take office.
Once praised for their studiousness, Japan’s teenagers are gaining a less wholesome reputation, for promiscuity. Official figures show that Japanese schoolchildren are having more sex than ever before, and that many are shunning condoms, unaware of the risks of contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
A stream of Iranians, many chorusing a demand for greater freedom, voted yesterday in a presidential election marred by violence and dismissed by the US as unfair. In Tehran, election officials reported a solid turnout for a contest between seven candidates in which the number of voters has been defined by religious rulers as paramount.