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/ 13 September 2004
Legendary South African communist and trade unionist, Ray Simons, died in Cape Town on Sunday night, the SA Communist Party said in a statement. Simons was born Rachel Alexander in Latvia in 1914. When she came to South Africa at the age of fifteen she was already a political militant, SACP spokesperson Mazibuko Jara said in the statement received in Johannesburg.
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/ 13 September 2004
The increasing number of HIV positive healthcare professionals will have a devastating impact on the South African health system, already under pressure from growing number of HIV/Aids patients. ”The effective prevention and care of HIV and Aids requires a strong health system,” SAA-Netcare director Dr Andrew Jamieson said on Sunday.
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/ 13 September 2004
The heaviest fighting for months erupted in the centre of Baghdad on Sunday, only a brief stroll from the office of the prime minister, Ayad Allawi. Witnesses said at least 13 Iraqis were killed and 55 wounded after United States helicopters attacked a crowd of unarmed demonstrators dancing round a burning Bradley armoured vehicle.
Four killed, 13 wounded in Fallujah
‘Why I turned against America’
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/ 13 September 2004
Billboards that encourage travellers to "Sho’t Left" (taxi slang for "jump off just there or around the corner") litter the Mpumalanga countryside. The mystical, medieval African city of Mapungubwe is preparing to host thousands of visitors when the subcontinent’s latest transfrontier park is launched at the end of the month.
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/ 13 September 2004
Farmers and commercial users can go back to basics with the Tata Telcoline bakkies. Where the rest of the pickup industry has industriously converted their cart-horses to show-jumpers and race-horses over the years, Indian motor manufacturer Tata has concentrated on delivering the goods — cheaply.
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/ 13 September 2004
A new phrase entered our vocabulary with South Africa’s liberation — the "culture of entitlement", which apparently threatens the new democracy. Black people allegedly think they are entitled to everything without having to work for it. We certainly do have a culture of entitlement, but not among excluded people who have nothing. It flourishes at the top where people are already extremely rich.
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/ 13 September 2004
At a red robot on the way to a function in Pretoria to celebrate his safe return, South Africa’s first man in space, Mark Shuttleworth, was approached by a street vendor selling world globes made of wire. "He made me realise two things," recalls Shuttleworth. "One was that entrepreneurship is alive and well because he tried to sell me two globes. The other came to me when I noticed the globes he was trying to sell me were upside down."
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/ 13 September 2004
It is an increasingly horrible scenario. As we neared the fateful anniversary of the as yet unexplained suicide bombings by hijacked airliners that brought the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City crashing to the ground, with the loss of thousands of lives, the heavily hyped war on terrorism saw an increase in terrorist attacks across the world. The lines of battle have reached a new pitch.
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/ 13 September 2004
Too easy. That’s how Roger Federer makes tennis seem. He takes a game filled with grunts and looks as if he’s gliding effortlessly on the court, almost floating, artistically painting lines and corners with winners. Federer routed 2001 champion Lleyton Hewitt 6-0, 7-6 (3), 6-0 in the United States Open final on Sunday to win his third Grand Slam title of the year and the fourth of his young career.
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/ 13 September 2004
Terrorism is getting nastier. Compare and contrast the anarchists and nihilists of the 19th and early 20th centuries who shot kings and presidents, with the Chechen separatists who have killed 350 children and teachers. Recall the indignation that accompanied Irish Republican Army (IRA) failures to give warnings of their bombs, thus killing innocents. Palestinian suicide bombers are not noted for giving warnings.