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/ 6 February 2008
The constituency is thousands of kilometres wide and contains around six million voters with a keen interest in the primaries but you won’t find a reference to it on a map of the United States. It is the constituency of Americans abroad and on Tuesday night they were voting in their hundreds of thousands.
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/ 6 February 2008
Onwards to battle. That was the message emanating from a tough speech by Barack Obama as he addressed thousands of cheering supporters in his adopted hometown of Chicago. While the results of Super Tuesday were still being announced, Obama made a naked pitch to the rest of America who have not yet had a chance to vote.
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/ 6 February 2008
Tornadoes and thunderstorms ravaged several states in the American South overnight, killing at least 26 people, injuring dozens and causing widespread damage, emergency services and local media said. CNN reports put the death toll at 27. The violent storms swept across Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi.
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/ 6 February 2008
Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton battled to a draw on Super Tuesday and John McCain took charge of the Republican race in coast-to-coast presidential nominating battles in 24 US states. In their Democratic duel, Obama won 13 states and Clinton took eight, ensuring a protracted battle for the nomination.
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/ 6 February 2008
The sheer scale of the misery wreaked by the United States sub-prime mortgage crisis became clear on Tuesday in research showing that more than 1% of Ameri- can households were hit with some stage of repossession proceedings last year. About 2,2-million foreclosure docuÂments — including default notices, auction sale notices and repossession papers — were filed on 1,28-million properties last year.
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/ 6 February 2008
The International Monetary Fund this week cut its forecast for global growth this year as it warned of a possible chain reaction from the six-month-old credit crunch rippling through the global economy. Predicting the weakest expansion since 2003, the IMF said tougher lending standards imposed as a result of the sub-prime meltdown in the United States threatened to curb consumer spending in the West.
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/ 6 February 2008
Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, aka the Baddest Man on the Planet, is no role model, in or out of the ring. The uncontrollable rage that drew Tyson from the streets into the ring also proved to be his undoing several times throughout his boxing career, as he succumbed to his aggressive impulses and substance abuse.
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/ 6 February 2008
It was a fine rebuff delivered in polite but unmistakably clipped tones. “I don’t do the press. Sorry.” And with that clincher, the well-published Wits University political scientist, Shireen Hassim, turned on her heels to return to her circle of fellow intellectuals to enjoy the last few minutes of her tea break.
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/ 6 February 2008
The United Democratic Movement has instructed its lawyers to consult on legal steps preventing the Scorpions from being dissolved. Adriaan Basson spoke to UDM leader Bantu Holomisa about his party’s decision.
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/ 6 February 2008
The contest for the White House claimed its biggest casualties so far this week when John Edwards (right) and Rudy Giuliani pulled out, turning it into a two-horse race for both the Democrats and Republicans. The Democratic duo, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, immediately began to court Edwards for his endorsement and scramble for his supporters ahead of ”Super Tuesday”.