Haim Yavin, a revered anchor of Israel’s Channel One news programme for more than three decades, has made a documentary in which he concludes that Jewish settlements are endangering the country and that the occupation of Palestinian land is a crime.
Trevor Ncube’s remark (Mail & Guardian, March 18) that Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) does not have the muscle to dislodge the ruling Zanu-PF from power ruffled feathers in the opposition and civic society in Zimbabwe. Many believed it was not only wrong but also mistimed, as it came on the eve of a crucial election.
An Australian academic who was deported from Botswana this week — apparently for his criticism of the government — has said the incident ”seems to have vindicated our arguments” about the state of democracy in the country. Professor Kenneth Good was declared an illegal immigrant in February.
A leading Democrat called for Guantánamo Bay to be shut down on Sunday after the United States army admitted at the weekend that it had uncovered instances of desecration of the Qur’an at the prison camp. The Pentagon report, released late on Friday, by Brigadier General Jay Hood detailed five cases of desecration at Guantánamo,
Justin Nurse runs a small business, Laugh It Off Promotions. It sells a few hundred T-shirts each year. SABMiller is a huge multinational. Its sales of Carling Black Label beer in 2000/01 were 1,4-billion 340ml bottles. When Nurse developed a T-shirt that parodied SAB’s product, the latter launched vigorous litigation to protect its trademark against this ”onslaught”.
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It hardly seems fair to describe Makoto Nishio and Mayuko Suzuki as social miscreants. They are well-educated and ambitious, work hard and spare as much time as they can for family and friends. But they have helped set in motion a demographic time-bomb because, in their thirties, they choose to remain single and childless.
Zimbabwe’s police force issued a warning to government opponents not to protest President Robert Mugabe’s two-week blitz on street traders and urban shack dwellers, saying extra manpower had been deployed to suppress any disturbances.
There is about 30 000 child soldiers in the DRC, 12 500 of them girls. The Commission of Africa’s report warns that without decade-long aid for countries that have suffered conflict, the former child soldiers — now young adults — may return to conflict and in turn recruit a new generation of child warriors
The empowerment company accused of funneling millions of rands of taxpayers’ money to the African National Congress defended itself against new claims on Saturday after it came up in Parliament that the company had given money to the relatives of government ministers.