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/ 17 December 2007
A manhunt began in Pakistan on Sunday night after a handcuffed British terrorist suspect escaped outside an extradition hearing at an Islamabad court. The disappearance of Rashid Rauf, accused of involvement in an alleged plot to blow up a dozen transatlantic airliners, placed fresh pressure on the strained relations between the United Kingdom and Pakistan
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/ 17 December 2007
Uncertainty over the prosecution of police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi was not in anyone’s best interest, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said. The National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) spokesperson Tlali Tlali said on Sunday that a decision had been made on whether Selebi ”has a case to answer”.
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/ 17 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/327874/livefrompolo.gif" align=left border=0></a>Sabelo "Shanée" Moroka is a woman trapped in a man’s body, trapped in Polokwane at the African National Congress’s 52nd national conference. She joined the ANC earlier this year because she wants a gold Hummer, to go with her front teeth.
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/ 17 December 2007
South Africa crowned a memorable year for rugby by beating England 15-6 in the final of the World Cup, a gripping tournament in which flair and flamboyance took a back seat to brawn and the boot. Panache might have been largely replaced by pragmatism, but the rugby remained compelling in the IRB’s well-attended 20-team showpiece tournament.
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/ 17 December 2007
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Thousands of delegates to the ANC’s 52nd national conference converged on Polokwane International Airport on Saturday to register in a cavernous hangar for the event. The registration hangar was a free-for-all for groups supporting either Thabo Mbeki or Jacob Zuma.
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/ 16 December 2007
There are moments in history when the future appears as a series of stark choices between life and death, good and evil, progress and regression. Such is the national mood as the ANC gathers at Polokwane. We might call it the end of post-apartheid innocence — something similar to what other African countries experienced after a decade or more of independence.
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/ 16 December 2007
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The first day of the African National Congress’s (ANC) Polokwane conference ended abruptly just after 9.30pm on Sunday, without dealing with nominations for the party leadership. ANC national chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota told delegates to come back on Monday, explaining there were ”a few details” the national executive committee wanted to tie up.
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/ 16 December 2007
Turkish warplanes targeting Kurdish rebels bombed villages deep in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing one woman and forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes, local officials said. In Ankara, the Turkish military’s General Staff said in a statement its warplanes had attacked targets of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party.
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/ 16 December 2007
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African National Congress (ANC) secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe’s organisational report, delivered on Sunday at the party’s national conference in Polokwane — was the first comprehensive admission from a party leader that the factionalism in the party was a result of a power struggle between two personalities: Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma.
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/ 16 December 2007
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African National Congress (ANC) president Thabo Mbeki has hit out against party members who use lies and dishonesty to achieve their goals. Presenting his political report on the first day of the ANC’s 52nd national conference in Polokwane, he said the conference had to confront ”the virus at the core of the disease”.