It was a foregone conclusion. Sepp Blatter was always going to be given another term in office as president of soccer’s governing body, Fifa. But the ramifications for football are grave. Blatter is not fit to run a bath, let alone one of the world’s biggest businesses. Since he took over Fifa in 1998, the […]
The North West Department of Education this week came clean on the state of adult basic education and training (Abet) in the province — and promised to tackle the problems that beset it.
South Africa go into their first 2002 World Cup game against Paraguay on Sunday buoyed by recent results. After a couple of dismal losses and draws in warm-up matches in Africa and Europe, the Far East is proving to be to Bafana Bafana’s liking, with the side unbeaten in three games. Victories against Scotland (2-0) […]
According to the United Nations, most perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity throughout history have gone unpunished. In spite of the World War II tribunals and the recent ad hoc international criminal tribunals not much has changed.
The Palestinian leadership is demanding a clear timetable and framework for a United States-backed Middle East peace conference proposed for later this year, to prevent it from descending into an empty "festival" of ideas.
They were cleaning the blood off Via Canalone on Monday in front of a silent crowd. Detectives collected shell casings and broken glass and a police photographer took close-ups of chips in the asphalt. It was a question of angles, said an investigator.
Steve Hilton-Barber, who died of a heart attack at age 39 last week, was one of the most adventurous of South Africa’s younger generation of photographers. His work ranged from news photography to portraiture, wildlife, music photography and commercial work.
George W Bush last week committed the US to a new era of unprecedented partnership with Russia as he and Vladimir Putin signed a treaty scrapping two-thirds of their long-range nuclear warheads and delivered a joint declaration redefining relations between them.
Parliament’s slackening oversight of the executive is said to be a key reason the well-regarded chairperson of Parliament’s finance committee, Barbara Hogan, has decided to quit. It was just a matter of time before Hogan left Parliament and "moved on to other things".
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on Wednesday struck an optimistic note at the end of his two-day trip to India and Pakistan and said that though the situation remained dangerous a war on the subcontinent was "not inevitable".