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/ 20 November 2006
Petroleum jelly apparently played a key role in the first escape from Pretoria’s C-Max prison on Saturday night, media reports said on Monday. Annanias Mathe appeared to have stripped and covered his entire body with petroleum jelly to climb out of a window measuring 20cm x 60cm.
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/ 20 November 2006
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Journalists should separate facts from opinion, African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma told editors on Sunday night — but wouldn’t tell them whether their perception that he wanted to be ANC president was correct. Zuma told the South African National Editors’ Forum that the ”blurring of lines” between facts and opinion led to a dangerous form of advocacy journalism.
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/ 20 November 2006
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Sunday left on a four-day state visit to Iran to beef up trade and political ties with a fellow pariah nation in Western eyes, state radio reported. ”The visit will see the two countries strengthening ties on energy, telecommunications, transport and trade,” it said, without elaborating.
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/ 20 November 2006
For years the portly man dressed in a red tunic and sporting a large white beard has been delighting unsuspecting strangers with his munificence. But now Santa has been forced to hang up his sleigh bells and stay at home — but not before revealing his true identity.
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/ 20 November 2006
Public outrage in the United States over OJ Simpson’s ”hypothetical” description of how he could have killed his ex-wife and her friend has prompted affiliates of the Fox TV network to refuse to screen the interview on the grounds of bad taste. Simpson has secured a ,5-million deal with Rupert Murdoch’s broadcasting and publishing companies companies which includes a Fox TV special.
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/ 20 November 2006
Not many people can afford to slap down nearly R6-billion, even if it’s for a stake in South Africa’s biggest company. Larry Yung Chi Kun can. But then, he is China’s third-richest individual, and presumably had some cash to spare. China Vision Resources, Yung’s investment company, bought 1,13% of Anglo American from E Oppenheimer & Sons, the Oppenheimers’ family company.
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/ 20 November 2006
Many Algerian employers are lobbying for a return of their country’s weekends over Saturdays and Sundays, rather than Thursdays and Fridays, saying the current policy is cutting into foreign trade revenues. Algeria began observing its weekend from Thursday to Friday in 1976, in recognition of the fact that Friday is a holy day under Islam, the state religion of Algeria.
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/ 20 November 2006
Put yourself in the shoes of Imelda Marcos. At the height of your power you are the wife of a president, one of the 10 richest women in the world, intimate with the world’s dictators and the owner of arguably the biggest private collection of art — and footwear — on the planet. Then try to squeeze into those sling-backs again today.
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/ 20 November 2006
Out of the vast stretch of Karoo farmlands, surrounded by hills, emerges a cluster of simply elegant cream coloured buildings with grey corrugated iron roofs. They house, among other institutions, the Hantam Community Education Trust’s school, Umthombo Wolwazi (Fountain of Knowledge), built on 11ha of donated land on the farm Grootfontein between Colesberg and Steynsburg in the Northern Cape.
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/ 20 November 2006
Poor people are needlessly dying because drug companies and the governments of rich countries are blocking the developing world from obtaining affordable medicines, according to an Oxfam report released recently. Five years to the day after the Doha declaration — a groundÂÂbreaking deal to give poor countries access to cheap drugs — was signed at the World Trade Organisation, Oxfam says things are worse.