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/ 26 November 2006
Two Cabinet ministers, a deputy minister and National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete have shares in the consortium that is building the Gautrain, according to the <i>Sunday Times</i>. The shareholding structure in the Bombela Consortium, which won the R23-billion Gautrain bid, has been a closely guarded secret.
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/ 26 November 2006
One of the biggest manhunts South Africa has ever seen was under way this weekend as police searched for Annanias Mathe — ”the devil’s child”. The country’s most dangerous criminal — and most slippery prisoner — made a dramatic prison breakout last week from the highest-security wing of Pretoria’s C-Max prison.
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/ 26 November 2006
Paul Collingwood and Kevin Pietersen were leading the resistance as England battled to save the first Ashes cricket Test against Australia at the Gabba in Brisbane on Sunday. The tourists were recovering after the loss of three wickets to enjoy their best period in what has been a lopsided opening Test of the five-match Ashes series.
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/ 26 November 2006
A one-month-old baby allegedly stolen near Orkney has been found in the Free State, North West police said on Saturday. The baby’s mother identified her at a Parys hospital where she had been taken after allegedly being found abandoned, said spokesperson Superintendent Louis Jacobs.
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/ 26 November 2006
Gauteng minister of community safety Firoz Cachalia launched the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children campaign in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, on Saturday. Marches against violence and abuse took place in Johannesburg — where participants wore stilettos — and Cape Town.
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/ 26 November 2006
Palestinian militants have agreed to stop firing rockets into Israel in return for an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and a halt to targeted killings, it emerged on Saturday night. The ceasefire could bring an end to a spate of violence that has seen the death of more than 100 Palestinians and two Israeli civilians within the past month.
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/ 26 November 2006
<b>CD OF THE WEEK:</b> Daniel Friedman praises Lily Allen for trying to make pop music exciting and interesting.
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/ 26 November 2006
Sue Krige writes about the Nightingale of India and Mahatma Gandhi.
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/ 26 November 2006
Nicole Johnston reviews <i>The Demon of the Curry Powders</i> by Pieter Scholtz, and <i>My Swordhand is Singing</i> by Marcus Sedgwick.
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/ 26 November 2006
Opera Africa stages a gender-bending version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, writes Paul Boekkooi.