SOUTH Africa’s Greg Emslie narrowly lost to Australian Taj Burrow in round three of the Quiksilver Pro in Cloudbreak, Tavarua Island, Fiji on Wednesday. The 22-year-old East Londoner progressed to round four of the competition behind Burrow, who is earmarked as a potential future surfing world champion. Emslie’s loss will give him an event placing […]

A PASTOR from Rwanda’s Episcopal Church and a former army major were condemned to death for genocide Thursday by a special military tribunal, official radio announced from Kigali on Thursday. “The military court condemned to death gendarmerie major Anne-Marie Nyirahakizimana and pastor Anastase Ngirinshuti for genocide, murder and association with criminals,” the radio said. It […]

FRENCH President Jacques Chirac sent a message to Moammar Gadaffi praising the Libyan leader for his efforts to bring peace to Africa, Libyan state television said on Thursday. Chirac said “France supports Colonel Gadaffi’s efforts to establish peace and stability in Africa,” the television station said. “Libya plays an important role in the Mediterranean area, […]

There’s retro, as in Oasis’s admiration for the Sixties, and there’s retro, as in Kula Shaker’s note-for-note reconstruction of them on their new album called Peasants, Pigs and Astronauts. This follow-up to their chart-topping debut, K, covers the same territory as before, mixing up shimmery, Hammond organ- infused psychedelia and a philosophy that boils down […]

Claude Kabemba A Second Look The rebellion against the government of President Laurent Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo stands at the crossroads. Divisions within the rebel Rassemblement Congolais pour la Democratie (RCD) movement and within the Uganda/Rwanda rebel alliance has placed a serious question mark on the ability of the rebels to win […]

Wally Mbhele makes very bold statements about the disunity of the African National Congress in the Free State (“Fresh splits in the Free State ANC”, May 21 to 27). And the article has done a disservice to the understanding of the nature of Free State politics. Essentially, Mbhele sees red in the ANC where it […]

Philippa Garson Class Struggle There’s nothing like an avalanche of blunt facts to send politicians and theorists scuttling back to the drawing board – at least one hopes so. When confronted with the disturbing, grainy footage of real life, rather than the crisply sanitised version stamped on to the pages of our many White Papers […]

Mungo Soggot The Pretoria High Court has dealt another blow to the Mpumalanga Gaming Board by refusing leave to appeal against a court order instructing them to hand over videotapes and documents of its deliberations. The decision is the latest in a series of court orders which have reversed or implicitly questioned decisions taken by […]

NIGERIA’S first parliament in more than 15 years opened Thursday in Abuja, electing a former state governor from southeast Nigeria to the country’s third-highest ranking constitutional position. The 109-member Senate and 360-member House of Representatives, elected in landmark polls in February, were declared opened by the clerks of the two assemblies. The upper chamber elected […]

THURSDAY, 6.00PM: WITH the panic of a market crash abating, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange dragged itself through a very lacklustre Thursday. All key indices ended at the low-end of the trading range, with Andre Crawford-Brunt of Deutsche Morgen Grenfell describing the day as “soggy”. There was praise all round, however, for Reserve Bank governor Chris […]