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/ 27 October 2006
The question of ”progressive” Islam is a thorny one. At a time when Muslims the world over feel that their future is under threat, and when conspiracy theories abound about attempts to undermine Islam from within and without, any attempt to work towards a radical rethinking of Muslim norms, values and praxis is bound to solicit controversy and suspicion, if not outright resistance or even violent reaction.
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/ 26 October 2006
The 14-nation Southern African Community (SADC) will have to either streamline or improve norms to meet its 2008 target for a free-trade area, a senior official from the bloc said on Thursday. ”Processes at the border posts, including documentation will have to be improved so that movement of goods will become faster,” said Timothy Thahane, Finance Minister of Lesotho.
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/ 26 October 2006
The father of the African baby Madonna wants to mother appealed for an end to legal challenge to her adoption bid, fearing the singer could react by sending the boy back to his impoverished homeland. Speaking on the eve of a hearing in Malawi’s administrative capital, Lilongwe, Yohane Banda said the case should be dropped ”for the sake of my child’s future and health”.
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/ 26 October 2006
A white former police reservist on Thursday pleaded not guilty to charges of hoarding arms as part of an alleged plot to topple veteran President Robert Mugabe as he went on trial in Zimbabwe. Lawyers for Peter Hitschmann told the court in Mutare, 270km east of Harare, that an initial confession had been forced out of the defendant while he was tortured.
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/ 26 October 2006
Talk Radio 702 presenter Tim Modise has been appointed executive director of communications and commercial affairs for the 2010 Soccer World Cup Local Organising Committee, station manager Pheladi Gwangwa said on Thursday. Modise, who hosts the 9am to midday slot on Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk, will take up the post in January.
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/ 26 October 2006
The 2010 Fifa World Cup holds untold benefits for South Africa and all citizens need to ensure its success, Cabinet urged on Thursday. ”Cabinet would like to reassure all South Africans that preparations are not only on track, but are also at an advanced stage, and that South Africa will be ready to host the first African Fifa World Cup,” government communications head Themba Maseko said.
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/ 26 October 2006
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Allegations of racism at the University of KwaZulu-Natal were cause for concern, Jacob Zuma told students at the investiture of the university’s student representative council on Thursday. The former deputy president, who had been invited to speak at the university’s Westville campus in Durban by the newly elected SRC, said: ”If you get hooked on racism you become a slave.”
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/ 26 October 2006
Many commuters will be left stranded on Friday morning as Johannesburg taxi operators join those in Pretoria for a march to the Union Buildings, the National Taxi Alliance said. Operators will be protesting against the proposed taxi recapitalisation process due to start from Saturday, said spokesperson Sicelo Mabaso on Thursday.
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/ 26 October 2006
Nato Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer urged the Russian Federation on Thursday to lift punitive sanctions against its southern neighbour Georgia during a visit that was intended to ease tensions between the Western military alliance and Moscow. At a Kremlin meeting, the Nato chief and President Vladimir Putin accentuated the positive in what has long been a rocky relationship.