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/ 24 November 2006
South Africa is energy inefficient because we don’t value our carbon resource sufficiently. There are a number of perspectives that, together, make up the picture. One perspective deals with process efficiency — a technological issue — another with the structure of the economy — how much of our economy is fundamentally energy-hungry.
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/ 24 November 2006
Struggling state-owned airline South African Airways (SAA) was able to report a profit for its past financial year, but a closer look at the balance sheet shows that, but for a change in accounting policy and a government bail-out, the airline would have made a loss. There has been a renewed focus on its finances since the launch of its low-cost subsidiary Mango.
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/ 24 November 2006
In just two months’ time the World Social Forum (WSF) will get under way in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, marking the first instance in which Africa is acting as sole host of the event. With the East African country also home to Kibera — sometimes referred to as Africa’s largest slum — it could be argued that there is no more appropriate venue for the 2007 WSF.
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/ 24 November 2006
At security posts dotted around the fields between the Jura mountains and Lake Geneva, scientists are installing high-tech retina scans above shafts descending 80m down — and leading to the largest scientific instrument ever built. The machine is being bolted together inside a tunnel 27km long, and when the power is thrown on next year it will recreate conditions unknown for 14-billion years.
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/ 23 November 2006
”My friend Nash and I were tikking the whole weekend. I was high as a Boeing. We walked the streets and not sleeping and not eating. It was day four of not sleeping. Then it was a Sunday night and Nash and I still had a couple of straws, but lost our lolly [the glass tube and ball]. We met up with this guy who said he had a lolly at his wendy house. We went with him and had a few hits. We were chatting in his room and he asked me to come with him to fetch something.”
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/ 23 November 2006
The pressure on Springbok coach Jake White intensified on Thursday after it was announced he will be making a 48-hour round-the-world trip to attend a meeting of South African Rugby’s president’s council in Cape Town on November 29. He will then rejoin the squad for the final match of their tour of Ireland and England.
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/ 23 November 2006
Computers stolen from the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) have all been replaced, said a PAP official on Thursday. ”The computers have been replaced,” said PAP media liaison officer Matome Sebelebele. Earlier in the day, PAP finance committee chairperson Wycliffe Oparanya accused South Africa of not living up to its responsibility as the host country, by failing to replace the computers.
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/ 23 November 2006
A disciplinary hearing into allegations of unprofessional conduct by the former chief state pathologist of the Free State, Dr Leon Wagner, has started in Bloemfontein without him entering any plea. It is alleged that Wagner recorded ”Aids” as the cause of death without the proper evidence and or examining the body.
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/ 23 November 2006
Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad on Thursday rejected any notion that China has ”sinister motives” in Africa. Briefing journalists in Pretoria and Cape Town, he said China’s involvement in Africa was relatively new. ”I want to believe that the Chinese government realises that the relationship cannot just consist of receiving our raw materials,” he said.