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/ 17 October 2005
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe denounced United States President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as ”the two unholy men of our millennium” at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation anniversary meeting in Rome on Monday.
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/ 17 October 2005
What would Jesus blog? This was among the questions considered by a conference of God bloggers in California at the weekend, which heralded their growing numbers as potentially the most important development in the spread of Christianity since the Gutenberg printing press began churning out bibles in the 15th century.
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/ 17 October 2005
About 400 people gathered outside the Gauteng legislature on Monday where they formed a human chain around the building to mark International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Representing a variety of NGOs, the demonstrators called for a basic income grant for all.
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/ 17 October 2005
Give us African money! President Thabo Mbeki recently questioned the integrity of NGOs on the strength of their foreign funding, suggesting they were not African and reflected alien agendas. This is grossly unjust. I doubt any of us choose to go foreign — we have no alternative. Our NGO, based in northern Limpopo, comprises 28 […]
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/ 17 October 2005
LETTERS June 3 – 09 2005 Wail for the Mail The interdict granted to Imvume to restrain the Mail & Guardian from reporting on the ”Oilgate” scandal is a severe setback for freedom of expression in general and press freedom in particular. The fact that press freedom can be abused does not justify prior restraints […]
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/ 17 October 2005
They’re a famously dysfunctional family from small-town America but suddenly they have all learned Arabic and started talking like Egyptians. The Simpsons have changed their name to Shamsoon. Bart, the skateboarding, gum-chewing delinquent has become Badr.
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/ 17 October 2005
Having suffered the Nazi occupation of his native city, seen his father killed by communists, then been dumped in a post-war orphanage because his mother could not cope, Stefan Bukowski could be forgiven for being a pessimist. Instead the retired heating engineer (69) marvels at the chances opening up for his two daughters.
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/ 17 October 2005
A 57-year-old Somali man was arrested in Sweden early on Monday suspected of genocide in Somalia, a country splintered by clan warfare since the early 1990s, justice officials said. ”The man was arrested in [the southern Swedish city of] Lund and immediately transferred to Gothenburg,” said a police spokesperson.
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/ 17 October 2005
Though not posing a threat to South Africa’s financial-system stability, a total collapse in Zimbabwe could have wider political, economic and social consequences for the region, the South African Reserve Bank cautioned on Monday. Economic and political difficulties in Zimbabwe seem to be deepening, it said.
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/ 17 October 2005
A project to help improve the income of women slum dwellers in Cairo has achieved excellent results and is set to be replicated elsewhere in this sprawling city of 12 to 15-million people. When the Arab Alliance for Women moved into the small Houtaya slum in Giza, Cairo’s twin city on the west bank of the river Nile, in October 2004, it targeted 150 families living in four crowded streets.