A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on Wednesday night, killing two Israelis, and intensifying fears that the relative lull was over. The explosion was the third suicide bombing inside the borders of the Jewish state since Sunday.
A year ago I was raped. With a gun pointed to my head, I gave up my independence to a stranger because I was afraid. It seemed a better choice to give him his few minutes of pleasure and walk away with my life. Like Magardie, I didn’t think rape was the worst thing that could happen to anyone.
British citizens retired overseas on Wednesday lost their high court battle for the right to have their state retirement pensions increased in line with inflation. A judge rejected accusations that the government was unlawfully discriminating.
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The South African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union has offered to provide nevirapine to pregnant members.
Walter Sisulu can still bring the party together. If South Africa is in danger of having the ANC as its ruling party for the next 100 years, it is in no small part due to that movement’s uncanny ability to manipulate events — sometimes entirely by accident.
The wave of violent criminal activity that has engulfed South Africa in recent years has posed major problems for the courts. The Constitution promotes the foundational values of freedom, equality and dignity. Criminals do not respect such values.
The "processing" of the Immigration Bill has been an unmitigated disaster, both for Parliament and for efforts to redress SA’s crippling skilled labour shortage. Eight years of policy-making has culminated in a frenzy of law-making with almost daily changes of a fundamental kind.
If you ever felt a flare of optimism about the political and moral flavour of the Mbeki presidency, now is the time to quench it. There is no longer much doubt about what is happening to South Africa under Thabo Mbeki. Hope is being supplanted by depression.
The new immigration policy is an important case study for our country. For the second time in a row I was greeted at immigration at Cape Town International not just with a smile, this time from a man, but with an identically cheery greeting: "Welcome home, sir."