The music industry is in a state of remix — and Hugh Masekela is the latest convert, writes Maria McCloy.
<b>NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Woody Allen’s latest offering <i>Match Point</i> is a bleak little movie, unrelieved by warmth or humour, writes Shaun de Waal.
China said on Friday it was "erroneous and one-sided" to believe that it is only interested in Africa because of its energy resources, arguing it had comprehensive ties with the continent. Assistant Foreign Minister He Yafei made the remark at a briefing ahead of a visit by Premier Wen Jiabao to seven African nations.
Talks between the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union and the employer associations in the security industry ended at about 6am on Friday morning, with employers bringing an improved offer to the unions, Satawu said in a statement.
The Palestinian government’s security chief, a key player in rocket attacks on Israel, was killed late on Thursday in an Israeli air strike that threatened to escalate clashes between the two sides into a far fiercer conflict. The militantly anti-Israel Hamas government called Jamal Abu Samhadana’s assassination a direct assault on the Palestinian Authority.
Impoverished villagers living next to the Kruger National Park in rural Mozambique have pledged 53 000ha of their land for conservation, providing a shot in the arm for South Africa’s ambitious cross-border "peace park" initiative. The bequest will become part of the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park.
Former National Intelligence Agency (NIA) director general Billy Masetlha has told the African National Congress probe into the ”hoax e-mails” that he possesses a separate set of e-mails intercepted by his agency — and that they are different from the messages judged to be fraudulent by Intelligence Inspector General Zolile Ngcakani.
”Do I look like a man who can climb up a lamppost?” demanded Sheval Arendse, the Democratic Alliance’s candidate in the Tafelsig by-election. As Arendse weighs 150kg, the question, put to a police inspector investigating a complaint of theft by the Independent Democrats, was clearly rhetorical.
KwaZulu-Natal social welfare and population development minister Nyanga Ngubane’s bid to avoid personally paying the legal costs of thousands of social grant applicants struggling for pensions and grants was thwarted by the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein recently.
A free junket to London, courtesy of Telkom, for senior officials of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has drawn criticism. Against the backdrop of attempts to break Telkom’s fixed-line monopoly, the freebie to attend a conference in April hosted by the International Institute of Communications, has attracted censure for the apparent conflict of interest.