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African National Congress president Jacob Zuma on Friday said that the issue of bail for those accused of rape and murder needs to be debated. Speaking at the launch of the KwaZulu-Natal Institute of Local Government and Traditional Leadership Fundraising Summit, Zuma said: ”I don’t think we have debated the issue.”
Using a team of co-authors, James Patterson has become perhaps the world’s most successful writer.
<b>NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK</b>: Shaun de Waal reviews the new Afrikaans teen comedy, <i>Bakgat!</i>.
<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> <i>I Could Never Be Your Woman</i>, Sylvester Stallone in <i>John Rambo</i> and <i>Starter for Ten</i>.
Sello Maake ka Ncube tells Kwanele Sosibo about life before and after <i>The Lion King</i>.
Lionising a psychotic Robert Mugabe is a psychotic post-modernist. He has shown how easy it is to destabilise old certainties and shared reference-points and replace them with a post-modern world-view that espouses deconstruction and proclaims that truth is socially constructed. Mugabe constructs the truth by decree. He did it last week with the elections, which […]
Malian kora star Toumani Diabate has been nominated for a BBC World Music Award.
Pirates off the coast of Somalia released 30 hostages seized aboard a French yacht a week ago following negotiations that ended the stand-off peacefully, French officials said. The hostages, including 22 French crew aboard Le Ponant, were freed ”without incident”, President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a statement, without providing details.
Taliep Petersen’s death looked ”suspect” from the start, his younger brother, Igsaan, told the Cape High Court on Friday. Igsaan was the third witness to be called in the trial of Taliep’s wife, Najwa, and three alleged hit men, who are accused of murdering him on the night of December 16 2006.
Ugandan government officials quit peace talks on Friday after fugitive rebel leader Joseph Kony delayed signing a final deal, casting doubt over the fate of nearly two years of tortuous negotiations. The draft deal with Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army had been due to be signed on Thursday.