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CTC BETWEEN KROONSTAD AND BLOEMFONTEIN According to an unconfirmed report, centralised traffic control (CTC) is to be installed between Kroonstad and Bloemfontein. Current work between Leeuhof (to the south of...
LOCOS OF NAMAQUALAND In his foreword to Peter Bagshawe's useful new book: Locomotives of the Namaqualand Railway & Copper Mines, Charlie Lewis writes: "Having closely observed Peter’...
SPECIAL SA PASSENGER TRAINS Special passenger trains were scheduled to and from Durban from 10 May in connection with the tourism "indaba". The Rovos Rail "Indaba Special" was scheduled from Pretori...
BONNIEVALE BEING DEMOLISHED According to Die Burger on 14 May, the Bonnievale station building is being demolished. The article states that 300 more South African stations are to be broken down. A c...
HEADACHES FOR RAILTOUR OPERATORS In their April 2012 Newsletter, JB Tours referred to many service improvements promised by Shosholoza Meyl, to take effect from 1 April 2012 – but none of these mat...
GAUTRAIN LEAK MAYBE TO ARBITRATION If the current dispute over leaks in the tunnel continue to delay opening of the Gautrain line to Park Station, the issue may have to go to arbitration. The Gautrain Mana...
GAUTRAIN PATRONAGE Gautrain Management Agency CEO Jack van der Merwe is quoted saying that between 32,000 and 35,000 people currently use the system daily, including 8,000 travelling to and...
GAUTRAIN FARES TO RISE Gautrain single-journey fares are to rise by R2 to R49 during June 2012. Seven-day passes will cost R438 and 35-day tickets R1,712. Parking charges at Gautrain stations a...
Dodging the 'Hebrew Hammer' in the Fight for Justice by Richard Edmondson deLiberationMonday, May 14th, 2012 see the billboards here: http://www.deliberation.info/dodging-the-hebrew-hammer-in-the-fight-for-justice/ ...
Long Live 'Our' Gulf Bastards By Pepe Escobar Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of B...
Adding Hurdles for Iran to Clear The current head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who was essentially installed by Western powers, is adding new hurdles for Iran to clear before an agreement c...
AIPAC Resolution Demanding War With Iran On House Floor Tomorrow By M.J. Rosenberg M.J. Rosenberg served as a Senior Foreign Policy Fellow with Media Matters Action Network, and prior to that worked on Capitol Hill for various Democ...
Five Reasons Drone Assassinations Are Illegal by Bill Quigley Bill Quigley is Associate Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He is a Katrina survivor ...
Shock-and-Awe Nation Building: Iraq's Neo-Liberal Reconstruction by Haytham Bahoora Jadaliyya May 14, 2012 The Iraqi government's contractual delivery of Iraqi oil fields to foreign multinationals is perhaps the most consequentia...
Afghan police units tangled in criminal activity By David S. Cloud and Laura King, A U.S.-backed program to recruit police has failed to significantly stem the insurgency, with some units becoming deeply entangled in...
UN asks SA's Navi Pillay to stay on as human rights chief 15 May 2012 07:51 – Sapa-AFP Ban Ki-moon has asked former SA judge Navi Pillay to stay on as UN high commissioner for human rights for another two years. Pill...
(Video) NAKBA 2012 Sonja Karkar May 14, 2012 This video shows pre-1948 Palestine and its well-established Palestinian society that was shattered by Jewish terrorist groups and then th...
Cosatu, the DA and the youth wage subsidy This week I lost a lot of respect for Cosatu.Cosatu (Congress of South African Trade Unions) objects to the idea of a youth wage subsidy. The DA (Democratic Alliance) sup...
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The Nation's River: Potomac Under Threat Alexandra Cousteau, granddaughter of legendary marine explorer Jacques Yves Cousteau, discusses her film The Nation's River, which looks at new threats to the Potomac Riv...
Sisulu wants exemptions for military Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has called for allowances to be made for the military under the Public Finance Management Act because of its "special operating conditions...
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Modimolle: Xenophobic attackers in court A total of 104 people accused of xenophobic attacks have appeared in the Modimolle Magistrate's Court, Limpopo police say....
Institute calls for corruption unit A new, dedicated corruption-busting unit should be set up to bolster the work of the Hawks, says the Institute of Accountability....
Don't blame animals for human behaviour Just over a week ago a Scottish woman visitng South Africa was injured while in a Cheetah enclosure. Then another woman claimed that she had also been attacked by the sam...
Ramphele takes Mdluli matter to court Dr Mamphela Ramphele, managing director of the World Bank, will lead a legal charge to prevent controversial policeman Lieutenant General Richard Mdluli from performing a...
Union condemns police staffing plans The SA Police Union has expressed anger about a proposal to cut police staffing numbers by 9 000....
Rocks, cement pieces send marchers scattering Rocks and pieces of cement have flown when supporters of the DA and Cosatu came head to head at a protest in Johannesburg city centre....
Violence interrupts Zille speech DA leader Helen Zille was interrupted while speaking at a protest against Cosatu over the youth wage subsidy when violence erupted....
Twelve Hawks appear in Cape court Twelve police officers have appeared on murder and other charges in the Bellville Regional Court....
Vavi rejects youth subsidy A youth wage subsidy will use workers' tax money to further enrich company bosses and had to be opposed, says Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi....
Zille blames violence on Cosatu DA leader Helen Zille blames Cosatu for the violence during the DA's march against Cosatu in the Johannesburg city centre....
Achille Mbembe at the Tate Modern Over the last six months, the Tate Modern in London has held Topology: Spaces of Transformation, a series of 'keynote conversations' which have brought in an impressive a...
Botswana High Court Hears Customary Inheritance Law Case: Update from the courtroom Yesterday, the Botswana High Court heard arguments in Mmusi and Others v Ramantele and Another, a case challenging the Ngwaketse customary law rule which provides for mal...
Fiat money has real value Fiat money has real value The actual materials the physical representation of our money, bank notes and coins, are made of today have, for...
Tuesday, 15th May 2012 HowzitOne thing that Mugabe and ZANU PF are quite good at is throwing spurious allegations at those who they do not like. We have watched while people like Roy Bennett wa...
SALC Case in New York Times Peter Godwin has an excellent opinion piece in the New York Times on the Zimbabwe torture ruling and what it means for the perpetrators of crimes against humanity. Well w...
Robert Fisk: Must we stand idly by while world leaders spout this codswallop? Even Churchill told the Empire that Britain would ‘not stand by idly and see Poland trampled’ The Independent Monday 14 May 2012 Funny how the news a...
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Why so little condemnation of Israel's extremism? The moralistic Chief Rabbi will not be on ‘Thought for the Day’ expressing sorrow for the treatment of the men The Independent Monday 14 May 2012 Thaer ...
Ray McGovern : Honoring a 'Terror War' Architect Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC. During his career as a CIA analyst, he prepared and b...
Fairtrade Coffee Week! This week join Fairtrade Label South Africa in their campaign to promote an ethical alternative for all coffee lovers.
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Livetweet Recap: The New York Times "Rebrands Africa" (again) From a series of tweets I did on the New York Times story “Rebranding Africa” which you can read here. Coming up: Elliot livetweets a read-through of @NYTimes...
Making budgets more transparent in oil rich states In the OBI working paper series that we have been posting about recently, Michael Ross of UCLA returns to the question of the resource curse (click here for his paper). ...
Diplo in the dock Chief Boima was invited to OPEN ARTI in Milan recently to talk about art and politics and to DJ. In the video of the event (above), Boima is joined by fellow DJ, Venus X ...
Coca-Cola can't copyright colour: the art of Sokari Douglas Camp "Coca-Cola Bird" stands facing the corner of the gallery, half-turned towards us in surprise or exhibition, oily red paint spun across the bucket cocked over her head, th...
Photo Blogging 101, Part 1 Spring is in the air. With the weather warming up, now is a great time to get started on a photo blog. Creating a photo blog is a wonderful introduction to blogging on Wo...
Photo Blogging 101, Part 1 Spring is in the air. With the weather warming up, now is a great time to get started on a photo blog. Creating a photo blog is a wonderful introduction to blogging on Wo...
Photo Blogging 101, Part 1 Spring is in the air. With the weather warming up, now is a great time to get started on a photo blog. Creating a photo blog is a wonderful introduction to blogging on Wo...
Uptown Sahel Thinking about ways that Africa is represented by NGO's and other international organizations (reference: various posts at Africa is a Country), it was nice to run into t...
Nourish your leadership gift - Leslie Sedibe "The longest relationship I have ever had is with my country". These are the words of Adv Leslie Sedibe, more.....
Regenesys Golf Day April 2012 Blue skies and beautiful fairways Regenesys first official Golf day on the 19th April 2012 was a day to more.....
Satanic ritual accused back in court Three men and a minor accused of killing a teenager in an apparent satanic ritual are expected back in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court....
Pedestrian killed by hearse A pedestrian has died after he was struck by a hearse on its way to a funeral in Butterworth, Eastern Cape police say....
Suspected car thief beaten to death A man accused of stealing a car has been beaten to death by a group of people near Mthatha, Eastern Cape police say....
Zuma's approval rating drops - survey President Jacob Zuma's approval rating has fallen from a 55% high in February to 46% in April, while Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe's rating is slightly higher, a sur...
Win the Pitch: Tips from Mastercard's "Priceless" Pitchman - Kevin Allen - Harvard Business Review Win the Pitch: Tips from Mastercard's "Priceless" Pitchman - Kevin Allen - Harvard Business ReviewRegardsMike...
Book Review: The Islamists Are Coming By Giorgio Cafiero Foreign Policy in Focus May 10, 2012 The Islamists Are Coming: Who They Really Are is a compilation of essays edited by Robin Wright that examine...
The St. Louis Survey - Frankenfoods at Whole Foods Counterpunch Weekend Edition May 11-13, 2012 by DON FITZ, DANIEL ROMANO and BARBARA CHICHERIO Don Fitz has taught several psychology courses in research methodology. D...
The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades our Liberties What Are You Afraid Of if You Have Nothing to Hide? by Matt Harwood, Matthew Harwood is a journalist working in Washington, D.C. He holds an M. Litt. in International ...
Naomi Wolf: Overhyped Terror Plots and Government Entrapment Naomi Wolf is the author, among other books, of The Beauty Myth and Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries. She is a graduate of Yale University and New...
Liberal Zionists are afraid their parents will reject them if they come out by Philip Weiss Mondoweis May 11, 2012 For weeks now I have been meaning to post the speech below, an astonishing speech given at J Street’s conference last M...
George Galloway's Convoy through Syria By: Syrian Jasmine. The Syrian Sun May 10, 2012 The 6th Viva Palestina convoy is en route to Gaza at this moment. As with any aid convoy going to Gaza we wish them ...
Egypt presidential rivals pledge to review Israel peace treaty in historic TV debate In the Arab World's first ever TV presidential debate, Amr Moussa says Israel is an adversary, Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh calls Israel an enemy. By Reuters and The Assoc...
State Dep't has nothing to say about hunger strikers 'one way or another' by Philip Weiss Mondoweiss May 11, 2012 3 Today’s State Department briefing. And spokesperson Victoria Nuland has nothing to say about the hunger strikers, ev...
60 Minutes Producer: "The Nazis Did A Lot Of This" By Andrew Sullivan see video here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31291.htm There are a couple of things worth knowing about Jose Rodriguez: that h...
US Resumes Arm Sales to Bahrain - State Dept: New Weapons Not for Crowd Control by Jason Ditz Antiwar.com May 11, 2012 While conceding that there are "a number of serious unresolved human rights issues" in the nation, the US State Department an...
Saudi king sacks adviser over gender comments Royal adviser fired after denouncing the mingling of men and women in court, and judges seeking to “Westernise society”. Al Jazeera Last Modified: 12 May 2...
Interview with Greenpop Greenpop chat to me about their festival, carbon offsetting and the awesomeness of vegetarian food...
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TSA: N.J. toddler on no-fly list was clear for takeoff when pulled from JetBlue flight By Richard Khavkine The Star-Ledger New Jersey On-Line Published: Friday, May 11, 2012, 12:33 PM NEWARK - A toddler yanked off a Newark-bound flight as a security t...
Police staff may be reduced by 9 000 The police service should reduce staff numbers by 9 000 by placing a moratorium on the recruitment of new members, the Treasury has reportedly recommended....
Thousands stranded due to taxi protest Thousands of commuters have been left stranded as minibus taxi operators protest against a number of issues in Johannesburg....
Farmer goes to Blue Scorpions over Exxaro A farmer from Delmas has lodged a complaint against Exxaro with the Blue Scorpions, after the mining company reportedly destroyed a wetland....
Cops hijacked me - Porsche driver A Johannesburg man who was reportedly hijacked by a group of men in police uniforms says he is convinced the hijackers were real cops, as he recognised one from a roadblo...
Shock over top lawyer's death The suicide of top KZN attorney Mvuseni Ngubane, who defended Sheryl Cwele and was secretary to the new arms deal commission, has sent shockwaves through the legal commun...
Monday, 14th May 2012 HowzitI am still coughing a bit, but it is a lot more loose and I do believe that I am over the worst.-o00o-...
Skydiver dies on first solo jump A 57-year-old skydiving student has crashed to the ground and died after apparently becoming unresponsive during his first solo dive.... |
