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/ 18 November 2005
Three years after the end of a fierce civil war, foreign businessmen and a handful of wealthy Angolans, mostly government officials, reap huge profits from a post-war boom fuelled by oil and diamonds, but most of Luanda’s five million people live in ramshackle shacks in fetid and treeless slums.
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/ 18 November 2005
In an astonishingly candid move, the South African Police Service has admitted to spending R66,5-million a year on hiring private security firms to guard its stations, police buildings and properties. These include such vulnerable enterprises as the police dog training school and forensic science laboratories.
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/ 18 November 2005
A debate about freedom of expression simmered at a United Nations communications summit on Thursday as a French campaigner was stopped from attending and China and Senegal defended limits on free speech. Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade told journalists that he regretted having given too much freedom to the press.
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/ 18 November 2005
SA must shun patronage The article “Beware of a shallow culture” (November 4) by Joel Netshitenzhe initiates a vital debate. Where exactly are black South African culture, and South Africa, heading? Netshitenzhe is concerned about a loss of direction in South Africa. He stresses the need to continually hold an ethical vision of a future […]
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/ 18 November 2005
Forty shacks were gutted in a fire at an informal settlement on Thursday night, Johannesburg emergency services said. Spokesperson Chief Superintendent Malcolm Midgley said the fire broke out at about 7pm and spread through the settlement completely, destroying 40 out of 1 000 shacks at Riverlea.
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/ 18 November 2005
Durban businessman Schabir Shaik is not yet home and dry with his application for leave to appeal against a corruption charge he was convicted on earlier this year. The Supreme Court of Appeal ”can still refuse the leave to appeal. Then the case [in terms of the corruption count concerned] is finished,” legal expert Tom Coetzee says.
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/ 18 November 2005
Donovan Moodley asked for a retrial in the Johannesburg High Court on Friday, saying he did not kill student Leigh Matthews. He was framed, he contended, adding that he would plead not guilty to all three of the charges against him — murder, kidnapping and extortion — if granted a new trial. He also asked for protection for his family and his partner, Yashika Singh.
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/ 18 November 2005
Presumptive president-elect Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said on Thursday she is looking for a few honest men, and women, to form a government able to tackle the challenge of rebuilding war-torn Liberia. ”There are going to be three basic requirements: the requirement of competence; the requirement of honesty; and the requirement of the regard and protection of human rights,” she told reporters.
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/ 18 November 2005
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: After the international attention Yesterday received, one would have expected director Darrell Roodt’s next film to be something bigger and glossier. This is certainly not the case with his latest feature, Faith’s Corner, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 18 November 2005
The Catholic Church knows nothing about it … It has nothing to do with the bloodline of Christ … It has not even been banned … It’s The De Villiers Code, by Tom Eaton, and this is an extract .