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/ 22 November 2006
Less than six weeks before he steps down as Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan has come up with a political scorecard on the successes and failures of the UN’s much-touted development agenda. The good news is that official development assistance — from rich to poor countries — is reaching a new high.
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/ 22 November 2006
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) paid Leadership magazine about R123 000 for a cover story featuring its chief executive, Dali Mpofu, in the June issue, according to Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri. She said the money came out of the SABC’s corporate marketing and public, international and regulatory affairs budgets.
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/ 22 November 2006
For some time now, the sporadic eruption of inter-ethnic conflict in most of Cameroon, sometimes with tragic consequences, has prompted concern about the future of this Central African country. The first notable tensions between ethnic groups date back to the beginning of the 1990s.
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/ 22 November 2006
The Media magazine celebrates its fourth anniversary this month. Looking back over the past year, Fienie Grobler suggests that the Jacob Zuma saga has encompassed the entire media industry in South Africa while elsewhere cartoons came under fire.
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/ 21 November 2006
Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind M*A*S*H, Nashville and The Player, who made a career out of bucking Hollywood management and story conventions, died at a Los Angeles hospital, his Sandcastle 5 production company said on Tuesday. He was 81.
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/ 21 November 2006
Andy Goode will start at flyhalf for England in their second Test against South Africa at Twickenham on Saturday. Goode came off the bench last weekend to replace the injured Charlie Hodgson and kicked effectively, both out of hand and at goal, as he scored seven points in a 23-21 win over the Springboks.
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/ 21 November 2006
Muslim fighters on Tuesday clashed with Ethiopian forces near the seat of Somalia’s government, inflicting large numbers of casualties and destroying armoured vehicles, officials and witnesses said. The Islamists ambushed an Ethiopian convoy in Qasah-Omane, a small village about 70km south-west of Baidoa.
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/ 21 November 2006
Zambia blocked former president Frederick Chiluba from seeking medical treatment in South Africa on Tuesday on suspicion he might not return home, where he is on trial for graft, a senior intelligence source said. Chiluba (64) was told he could not leave despite a Lusaka court order that he should be evacuated for a medical review.
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/ 21 November 2006
A former Russian spy fighting for his life in a British hospital may have been given poison laced with a radioactive substance to render it more lethal, the toxicologist treating him said on Tuesday. Russia has dismissed as ”nonsense” claims its agents poisoned former spy Alexander Litvinenko (41), a persistent critic of President Vladimir Putin.