The king, if the illness did not intervene, would have made an official visit to the Western Cape as part of our efforts to make right the wrongs of the past, particularly apartheid legislation and the alienation of the Xhosa speaking communities.

For that period, a matter of just over 24 hours, we are appealing to people to please put off their geysers. We are appealing to people ... to switch off their pool pumps and their pool heaters, to switch off unnecessary lights ... to switch off unnecessary appliances.

Political leaders have no qualms in repeating sentiments publicly [that were] formed in the most desperate and alienated of situations in the human condition.

Yes, Doc, I'm not feeling too well.'

Which was true enough, Kwang Meng considered.

He had honestly not been feeling too well since he contracted poverty, loneliness, boredom, sexual frustration and periodic coughs and colds. Not to speak of his dreary job.

The intention is also to help guests in shedding misconceptions and appreciating the finer nuances of age-old recipes.

Our main concern is the (possibility of) Pakistani firing from across the cease-fire line.