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/ 11 December 2006
<i>Bridget Jones’s Diary</i> is a lot of fun, as Bridget works through her own entanglements and embarrassments while dealing with the complications that have suddenly erupted in her parents’ lives, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 11 December 2006
Food items such as your trusted brands of coffee and tea, maize meal and rice, as well as toiletries such as deodorants, lotions and bathing soaps could soon vanish from supermarket shelves. Food retail chains announced a national shortage in dry food goods and toiletries. A decline in the supply of these items was first experienced in November and the phenomenon is expected to continue into the new year.
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/ 11 December 2006
Folding banana leaves as big as beach towels, Emelie Andrianavisoa from Brickaville explains why she didn’t vote in Madagascar’s presidential election. "My name is incorrect on my Âvoter’s card and I cannot check whether I am on the voters’ roll," she says. "They tell me there is a way of doing this, but I have not got the time to do it.
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/ 11 December 2006
Outside the depleted ranks of the United States’s neoconservatives, few tears are likely to be shed over John Bolton’s resignation as US ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton’s political fate was effectively sealed, like that of Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, when the Republicans suffered their crippling defeat in the Congressional elections last month.
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/ 11 December 2006
A case in which online casino operators challenged a ban on internet gambling was thrown out of court last week. But experts question whether the judgement of the Pretoria High Court is enforceable. It has also emerged that the National Gambling Board, one of the defendants, has submitted a report to the minister of trade and industry recommending the legalisation and taxation of internet gambling.
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/ 11 December 2006
Many of Britain’s big businesses — including supermarkets, banks, universities, hotel chains, hospitals and government departments — would be forced to sign up to a carbon trading scheme under proposals being drafted by ministers. The scheme has received an initial enthusiastic response from some of the companies.
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/ 11 December 2006
The richest 1% of adults in the world own 40% of the planet’s wealth, according to the largest study yet of wealth distribution. The report also finds that those in financial services and the internet sectors predominate among the super-rich. Europe, the United States and some Asia Pacific nations account for most of the extremely wealthy.
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/ 11 December 2006
In <i>White Writing</i>, JM Coetzee describes white South Africans as "no longer European, not yet African". Almost 20 years later, we may ask if white South Africans are any closer to Africanness. Can white South ÂAfricans be African? Frederik van Zyl ÂSlabbert is suspicious of answers that define "African" along ethnic or racial lines, and rightly so, writes Jason van Niekerk.
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/ 11 December 2006
The battle for George W Bush’s ear began in earnest on Wednesday following publication of the Iraq Study Group’s report. The United States president’s instinct is to hang tough, gambling that "a last big push" will bring victory of sorts. "We’re going to stay in Iraq to get the job done," he said last week. Amid great uncertainty, one thing is sure: Bush does not do graceful exits.
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/ 11 December 2006
Belinda Moleko muses, calmly determined: “We will change the face of townships. We will. We are more at home with our own.” Moleko’s company, Bella Casa, is the developer of Tembisa’s first cluster-home development. The Willows, a security estate of 25 free-standing homes, priced from R225 000 for 61 square metres, sold out within three weeks of its launch.