The Triangle Project said on Friday they were outraged by recent killings of two lesbian women in Soweto. ”We demand justice and immediate police action to incarcerate the monsters who killed these women,” said Vista Kalipa, spokesperson for Triangle Project — a Cape Town-based gay and lesbian advocacy organisation.
A motivational essay by Sharon Farr gives the filmmaker’s reasons for making a documentary about Bram Fischer. Here is an extract.
Icelandic pop princess and noise terrorist Björk is dancing to a tribal beat, writes Lloyd Gedye.
A new exhibition documents the lives of people in polluted environments, writes Niren Tolsi.
After a months-long delay, the latest Somali peace conference is due to start in Mogadishu on Sunday but hopes of a breakthrough remain low amid raging violence and a boycott by key players. The conference was called by the transitional federal government after it defeated an Islamist movement with the help of Ethiopia in January.
Employers must not cut worker salaries but should, instead, review them upwards despite the ongoing reduction of prices of goods and services, said the Zimbabwe chairperson of the Cabinet taskforce on price monitoring and stabilisation, Obert Mpofu. He said the government would assist companies that are facing viability problems.
Nigerian kidnappers have demanded 10-million naira (Â 600) for a three-year-old boy they snatched on his way to school in the lawless Niger Delta, relatives of the toddler said on Friday. The boy’s abduction on Thursday came just four days after a British girl of the same age was released by her kidnappers in the same area.
The JSE retained its strong tone at midday on Friday, marching towards the historic 30 000 level following a record-breaking performance on Wall Street overnight. At 12.02pm, the all-share index was up 0,68% at 29 992,470. Resources gained 0,38%, the gold-mining index added 0,57% but the platinum-mining index fell 0,39%.
His boxing career is dead and the epitaph reads: ”Here lies the once skilful Lehlohonolo Ledwaba, who committed suicide after experiencing more pain than pleasure in the cut-throat game.” Ledwaba, a three-time world champion, ended his life as a fighter by disclosing to the Sunday Times that he had an eye injury that had required surgery.
For most people on Earth today, sport plays a much larger emotional part in their lives than politics. We vote every four or five years, but we follow our teams every week. The pattern of the modern year is dictated by the sporting season rather than the church calendar. Instead of Easter and Whitsun, we look forward to the Cup final, to the Open and to the Test.