Thunderous applause, whistling and ululating filled the grounds of a Soweto school on Tuesday as more than 200 students welcomed British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to the township.
Tributes to the late anti-apartheid activist Walter Sisulu continued to pour in as government agrees to President Thabo Mbeki’s request for a state funeral.
Winnie Madikizela was sentenced to five years in jail on Friday after her conviction on dozens of fraud and theft charges. She will serve eight months of her sentence in prison.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the former wife of Nelson Mandela, could be sentenced to 15 years in jail today after being convicted for fraud and theft in a bungled banking scam.
Kurdish fighters and US forces today swept into Iraq’s third city, Mosul, after Saddam Hussein loyalists abandoned one of the last strongholds of his dying regime.
One US marine was today reportedly killed during a heavy gun battle around a Baghdad mosque that the soldiers suspect may be providing sanctuary for Saddam Hussein.
Three decades of iron rule by Saddam Hussein appeared to be collapsing in Baghdad today as US troops mopping up fading resistance were met by jubilant Iraqis and looting broke out unhindered.
US troops holding positions in the western half of Baghdad today began an assault on Iraqi units guarding a crossing to the east.
Iraq said today that yesterday’s raids on Baghdad, including an apparent stray missile strike on a crowded market, had killed 36 Iraqi civilians.