samedi 29 août 2009

Africa News Today: Mourners pay their last respects to US senator Edward Kennedy at the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston on Friday.



Honouring the fallen
Honouring the fallen Mourners pay their last respects to US senator Edward Kennedy at the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston on Friday. (Emmanuel Dunan, AFP)

Internet age re-inventing the music business

Music and internet worlds merged on Friday on San Francisco's posh Nob Hill as insiders brainstormed about industry rocking Web 2.0 trends.

Discovery launched after days of delays

Space shuttle Discovery rocketed into orbit early on Saturday, carrying lab equipment, supplies, spare parts and genetically altered mice.

'They made me their slave', says former LRA child soldier

The boys were fishing when the rebel fighters struck, dragging them off for a slave life in one of the world's most notorious guerrilla armies.

JSC drops Hlophe probe

The Judicial Service Commission said on Friday it would not proceed with a formal investigation into a gross misconduct complaint against John Hlophe.

Zuma says Zimbabwe's coalition government is working

Jacob Zuma has given an upbeat assessment of Zimbabwe's unity government, saying he believes the worst of the country's troubles are over.

Lockerbie bomber's release linked with trade talks

Saif Gadaffi says it was "not a secret" Libyans were linking oil and trade deal with bid to get Abdelbasset al-Megrahi released.

Taxi strike called off

A nationwide strike by the taxi industry planned for Monday will no longer take place, the South African National Taxi Council said on Friday.

Moment of pride as Semenya returns to Ga-Masehlong

Caster Semenya's grandmother remembers begging for money from friends and relatives to send the young runner to local athletics track events.
ANC targets Mbeki 'big fish' in NW ANC targets Mbeki 'big fish' in NW
But task team says it's simply doing an audit of 'functionality'
Future of SABC's global channel uncertain Future of SABC's global channel uncertain
Zikalala recommends that a private company invest and run SABC News International
University of the Free State gets serious about integration rather than confrontation, writes Mandy Rossouw.
Green activists fear Port Elizabeth may be on the brink of a marine disaster caused by oil leaking into the city's harbour.
The best candidates for reconciliation financing are small-scale revenue-generating projects such as small and micro enterprises.
Of course, politicians understand this efficacy just as well as commercial sponsors do -- and are quick to deploy it for good or ill.
In the past three years Telkom has suffered almost R3-billion in losses because of cable theft, Parliament was told on Friday.
September's petrol price hike may prove just one blow too many to South Africa's already struggling workers and consumers, a union said on Friday.
Caster Semenya's grandmother remembers begging for money from friends and relatives to send the young runner to local athletics track events.
World champion Caster Semenya has been tested in South Africa and found to have higher-than-usual testosterone levels.
Zuma must pacify bickering government members if there is to be constructive dialogue, writes Jason Moyo.
'Mugabe is dead". That's a headline many long to see in their lifetime -- so much so that, once in a while, we write it anyway.
Ted Kennedy left his imprint on more legislation than any other senator. His death marks the end of an era in United Statespolitics.
A decade after war, almost 2 000 people are still listed as missing in Kosovo, haunting their families.
Belts have been tightened for this year's Cape Town Fashion Week as the fashion set seeks new ways to counter crunch time at the pay machine.
It's often easy for South Africans to imagine they live in an alternative reality. Maybe that's why District 9 works so well.
Facebook has been forced to give its users more control over how much of their personal information is shared with the social networking site.
Australia launched a multimillion-dollar bid this week to rebrand itself as more than a nation of bronzed beach-goers.
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