AFRICAN National Congress members disgruntled with Mpumalanga Premier Mathews Phosa’s leadership made personal submissions to the party’s president,Thabo Mbeki, during his low-key three-day visit to the province earlier this week. The series of meetings, initially planned as a review of the ANC’s organisational status, reportedly included a series of one-on-one meetings between Mbeki and unhappy […]
Britain’s most famous wartime general has been tainted by revelations in newly released secret papers, reports Alan Travis from London The reputation of Britain’s most famous wartime general, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, has been dealt a body blow by the disclosure of secret papers revealing that he advocated a racist imperial “masterplan” for […]
THE National Party has lost its appeal against a decision by the press ombudsman that the Mail & Guardian was justified in publishing details of a police investigation into its leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk. The article, NP leader in bizarre sex probe reported that a Western Cape criminal, John Hermanus, had laid charges of sodomy […]
EGYPTIAN women will soon be able to buy a divorce even if their husband objects, under a draft law outlined by the government Al-Ahram newspaper on Thursday. Justice Minister Faruq Seif an-Nasr said that a new law on personal status is being drawn up to simplify legal procedures and it will go before Parliament shortly. […]
IT is illegal for any airline operating from Zimbabwe to quote air fares in United States dollars or any other foreign currency, Minister of Industry and Commerce Nathan Shamuyarira said on Friday. The government’s statement is in response to the Board of Airline Representatives’ Wednesday decision to quote air fares on domestic, regional and international […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 10.15am. ONE in three South African schoolgirls are victims of sexual abuse, according to a study published on Thursday by a non-government organisation, Community Information Empowerment and Transparency. Of the victims, two out of three had never previously spoken of the abuse, the study of 1500 black and white youths […]
Preview of the week: Alex Sudheim In the 1980s, the two-headed beast of church and state had the country in a stranglehold of puritanical dogma and racist ideology. Many young Afrikaners attempted to shake themselves free by writing heretical songs and living subversive lifestyles. This growing deviant energy was epitomised in the famous Volvry tour […]
Bram Posthumus takes a look at what lies at the heart of Angola’s misery A snapshot, taken in Kuito two months ago on Angola’s 23rd birthday. The crowd in front of the bullet-riddled government buildings at the Praa de Vergonha (Shame Square) listens impassively to the music and speeches and then walks away. There’s not […]
A REPORT into the August bombings of two United States embassies in East Africa has faulted several government agencies for failing to properly assess the security threat. The report, released by the US state department on Friday, found that the embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam had not been provided with adequate security against […]
THE touring West Indies are rumoured to be considering line-up changes for the fifth Test. Not at all a bad idea, since at the very least fresh blood will be exposed to the stresses of being trounced at the international level. On the list to head back to the Caribbean are Clayton Lambert, Steuart Williams, […]