One of the United States’s top customs investigators was on Thursday forced to defend his agency after a man carrying weapons including a bloodstained chainsaw, a home-made sword and a knife was allowed to cross the border freely from Canada to the US.
South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle hero Nelson Mandela will be joined by pop superstars Peter Gabriel and Annie Lennox at charity concert.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma has been battling for his political life for years, and his supporters believe he still has numerous ways to to take the fight to President Thabo Mbeki, writes <b>Sam Sole</b>. "Schabir Shaik is only the instrument of the attack on Zuma," a close associate of Zuma says.
It is a perennial conundrum for any self-respecting Malibu millionaire: How to stop the public from unrolling their gaudy towels on the beach in front of your house and cluttering up the view of the ocean from the infinity pool. The answer this year, it seems, is as simple as it is drastic.
President Robert Mugabe on Thursday defended the razing of townships and the arrest of thousands of street traders, which has left at least 200 000 people homeless, as a ”vigorous clean-up campaign to restore sanity” to Zimbabwe’s cities.
The two men locked each other in a stare across the courtroom. It lasted a second, but it felt as though they had been staring at each other ever since they last met 10 years ago at Srebrenica, the site of Europe’s worst massacre since the World War II.
The question is not really whether Jacob will jump and when. The real question –arising out of the Hillary Squires judgement on MK stalwart Schabir Shaik — is who, or what, will ultimately have to jump with him. Or rather, who will be prepared to do so. The African National Congress, now the seat of power, has long had a shady relationship with the moral imperatives of struggle culture.
It is always gratifying to see big business tightening its belt, and Absa should be praised for its decision not to pay extravagant fees to an advertising agency to handle its "My bank" campaign. Indeed, it has become abundantly clear that Absa has not only economised by eschewing professional copywriters altogether, but has empowered previously marginalised camps by entrusting its re-branding to a band of rhesus monkeys chained to typewriters and supervised by crack addicts.
Stephen Ward (the Profumo Scandal). Gordon Liddy and E Howard Hunt (Watergate). Now, you can add the name of Schabir Shaik. Small men, all of them, with their 15 inglorious minutes of infamy. But with big trials and with big consequences that overshadowed their pathetic samples of human fallibility.
Vodacom barely caused a ripple with its announcement last month that it would start subsidising computers in the same way it has cellphones in an effort to increase data use on its network. Beaming from a 19,5% leap in profit to R27, 3-billion and dividends of 61,9% to R3, 4-billion in the year to March, Vodacom is also hoping to boost its data traffic.