The club thuds on to the metal table and rolls heavily out of the plastic bag marked ”evidence”. Almost a metre of dark wood, its head is studded with nails, many of them mangled and flattened from the grisly use to which it was put. The evidence room at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is full of these relics of the unimaginable.
In the past 10 years of democracy, South Africa has changed from being an isolated and fearful corner — cut off from the rest of the continent — to an open, vibrant hub of the southern hemisphere.And for the first time, many South Africans have come into contact with people from other cultures — although not always with happy results.
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/ 3 February 2004
Pity poor Faieza Desai. On Monday she was at Cape Town International airport to welcome back the judge at the heart of the Mumbai jiggery-pokery and was immediately lauded by at least four daily newspapers for standing by her man.
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/ 8 February 2002
Marianne Merten Political facilitator Frederik van Zyl Slabbert named as the head of a multi-party commission to draft a new electoral law has waited almost a year for his letter of appointment. Institute for Democracy in South Africa co-founder Van Zyl Slabbert said this week there had been no formal confirmation of his appointment, and […]