Every writer of feminist speculative fiction owes a debt to Ursula le Guin, whose 1974 The Dispossessed neatly turned conventional notions of gender, power and property rights upside down. That debt is explicitly acknowledged by Liz Williams — even if the first fantastic novels she remembers reading were by Jack Vance.
With airports around the world planning to increase tariffs to fund expansion, global airlines lobby group the International Air Transport Association (Iata) said it was unfair that airlines and passengers had to pay for costs incurred by airport operators.
Communities affected by the building of another runway at OR Tambo International Airport outside Johannesburg are to be kept fully informed about progress, according to Transport Minister Jeff Radebe. The aim, he said in reply to a written parliamentary question on Tuesday, is to allay fears and misconceptions.
Brazil, India and South Africa aim to boost business between the fast-growing emerging economies that are also key players in now deadlocked global trade talks, Brazil’s foreign minister said on Tuesday. Brazil’s Celso Amorim said after talks with his counterparts in New Delhi that the nations agreed to raise trade flows 50% by the end of the decade.
Having completed their Tri-Nations campaign in Christchurch on Saturday, the Springboks will now turn their attention to France and the World Cup, starting in Paris in September. While the 1995 world champions failed to make a telling impact on the southern hemisphere rugby championship, coach Jake White will be fairly happy with his team’s performance.
Striker Robbie Keane and his Tottenham Hotspur teammates will be looking for goals when they take on defending champions Kaizer Chiefs in the opening fixture of this year’s Vodacom Challenge at the Absa Stadium in Durban on Saturday (3.15pm kick-off).
South Africa’s rugby team, smarting from a weekend defeat at the hands of New Zealand, look set to unleash their own version of the All Blacks’ famous haka, based on an old Zulu war dance. Springbok coach Jake White said he had asked the rugby authorities about reviving a dance that was last used more than 80 years ago in order to psyche up his players.
The JSE is following a trend where overseas markets are generally lower, and with the all-share down 1,01%, the local bourse seems to be sitting and waiting for United States markets to open as well as the release later of US data. At 12pm, the all-share index was 1,01% weaker at 29 565,770.
Standard Chartered Bank has been named the Best Emerging Markets Bank, one of the top global awards at the 2007 Euromoney Awards for Excellence. Standard Chartered also won a regional award for the Best Bank in Africa and a country award for the Best Bank in Ghana.
Zimbabwe, who have been out of Test cricket since January 2006, have dropped out of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) test rankings list. Zimbabwe do not figure in the ICC’s annual list released on Monday because they have played two Tests fewer than the minimum of 10 required for inclusion in the table.