Time is running out for Yoweri Museveni, whose achievements in running Uganda for 19 years have allowed him to get away with political murder. But the man once compared with Nelson Mandela for his statesmanship is increasingly being likened to Robert Mugabe for clinging to power.
Ha ha ha. Men and women are different. Men are messy and women are neat. It’s such a tired joke, yet it keeps filling theatre seats. From Punch and Judy to Defending the Caveman, to a new Cape Town production, Train Your Man. Surely there are other things to find funny?
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The Public Servants Association (PSA) plans legal action to prevent the state from reducing the medical benefits of officials who retired before July 1992, the PSA said on Tuesday. The [state] has indicated that those people affected are to be placed on a medical scheme with limitations, says PSA’s deputy general manager, Manie de Clercq.
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Deputy President Jacob Zuma is to resign as a Member of Parliament, his spokesperson Lakela Kaunda said on Tuesday. She was commenting on an African National Congress statement accepting an offer by Zuma — made in an earlier statement — to resign his seat.
The United Nations refugee organisation UNHCR on Tuesday accused Burundi of breaching international conventions on refugees after the central African nation deported around 5Â 000 Rwandan refugees. Refugees in Burundi were taken from the transit centre of Songore in the country’s north on Sunday and Monday to Rwanda.
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Jacob Zuma declared on Tuesday that he accepted and respected President Thabo Mbeki’s decision to sack him, but continued to maintain he was innocent of any wrongdoing.
Sudan’s new court to try Darfur war criminals began work on Tuesday, but rebels and rights groups slammed it as a deliberate bid by the government to avoid prosecutions by an international tribunal. ”A national court cannot be a substitute to an international one,” said the United Nations’ representative in the Sudan.
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Former president Nelson Mandela on Tuesday told journalists his successor had made the right decision to sack Deputy President Jacob Zuma. Said Mandeloa: ”We are confident that President Thabo Mbeki will as always lead with wisdom and compassion, guiding our nation through these testing times and holding our organisation (the ANC) together.”
A life-size chocolate statue of British popstar Elton John was unveiled on Tuesday at London’s famous wax cabinet, Madame Tussauds. The figure, made of 126kgs of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, won immediate approval from Elton’s long-time partner, David Furnish. ”They’ve captured his features and his spirit,” said Furnish.