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/ 2 September 2007
Two decades ago, General David Petraeus, the man charged with winning the United States’s second war in Iraq, wrote a thesis for his PhD in international relations at Princeton. Now he is delivering another survey of an unpopular, divisive war. Only this time his audience is not a college tutor: it is the whole world.
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/ 2 September 2007
The key piece of material evidence used by prosecutors to implicate Libya in the Lockerbie bombing has emerged as a probable fake. Nearly two decades after Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Scotland, allegations of political intrigue and shoddy investigative work are being levelled at the British government, the FBI and the Scottish police.
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/ 2 September 2007
It all came to an end under a clear blue Idaho sky, in the harsh gaze of a dozen TV cameras. Senator Larry Craig, who started the week as a revered stalwart of the conservative wing of the Republican party, ended it with his career in ruins as he announced his resignation on Saturday.
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/ 2 September 2007
Businessman Cyril Ramaphosa has joined the African National Congress (ANC) presidential succession race, according to weekend media reports. The ANC’s powerful OR Tambo district in the Eastern Cape has formally stated that it will nominate Ramaphosa for the presidency. Regional secretary Mlamli Siyakholwa said that "we have been lobbying Ramaphosa, I must admit".
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/ 2 September 2007
The South Korean government paid Afghanistan’s Taliban a ransom of more than -million to secure the release of 19 missionaries held hostage since mid-July. The claim by a senior Taliban leader was made on Saturday, but denied by South Korea, after the Taliban vowed to use the funds to buy arms and mount suicide attacks.
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/ 1 September 2007
Writing a column, one quickly realises, is like doing stand-up comedy in a soundproofed box in a theatre with the lights turned off. If someone is out there, they are invisible and inaudible. There is no laughter, no applause. Good jokes die in the silence along with the bad ones. Nobody throws flowers. Nobody throws dead cats.
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/ 1 September 2007
Springbok flanker Hendro Scholtz was one of the heroes in the Cheetahs’ Currie Cup win of 80-33 over the Valke at Vodacom Park on Friday night. Scholtz produced some of the magic that made him South Africa’s first choice number-six flanker in 2003.
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/ 1 September 2007
It was meant to be the feature game of the weekend Absa Currie Cup rugby fixtures but in fact the confrontation between the Sharks and the Golden Lions was almost a slow motion affair until a semi-power failure with 25 minutes to go sparked the Sharks into action for their first try in an important 21-3 victory.
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/ 1 September 2007
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South Africa’s rugby squad should forget about politics in sport and concentrate on their World Cup title tilt, President Thabo Mbeki said on Saturday. ”While you are away forget all of these controversies that we always raise as politicians, don’t worry about those ones, just play the rugby,” Mbeki was quoted as saying.
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/ 1 September 2007
After all the drama of the court cases that preceded it, the floor-crossing window got off to a low-key start on Saturday. The only excitement was provided by a senior African Christian Democratic Party politician in the Western Cape, Johan Kriel, who accompanied his move to the Democratic Alliance (DA) with a blistering attack on ACDP leader, Kenneth Meshoe.