Ice Cube has turned himself into the United States’s new hero. Not bad for the man who soundtracked the Los Angeles riots, writes John Patterson.
A military contingent surrounded the home of a Togolese opposition leader early on Friday, journalists said, a day after the opposition called for results handing the presidential election to the ruling party to be overturned. Soldiers advised reporters to stay away from Jean-Pierre Fabre’s home in the capital Lomé, and refused to say why they were there.
A derby of many goals: that is what the fans deserve when Chiefs and Pirates meet at the FNB Stadium on Saturday. A derby of many goals: that is what the biggest clash in South African football represents for the owners, fans and sponsors of these two teams.
As Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin gears up for the biggest spectacular of his five-year rule, Moscow and its former satellites in Eastern Europe are mired in rancour and recrimination about the chapter of history they are about to commemorate.
A string of coordinated bomb attacks killed at least 10 Iraqis and wounded 30 on Friday in Baghdad, as insurgents showed no sign of letting up after an agreement was reached on a partial Cabinet line-up. At least four of the blasts that rocked the capital at around 8am were car bombs aimed at Iraqi security forces.
Free-to-air channel e.tv editor-in-chief Joe Thloloe will be leaving the station at the end of this week, the channel said on Friday. Thloloe was appointed to the top job in 2002. Thloloe joined e.tv as a media consultant and was instrumental in the establishment of its news and current affairs programme <i>Morning Edition</i>.
Authorities have moved swiftly to put up warnings signs at Pelindaba outside Pretoria despite denials about nuclear waste dumping. President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday rejected as ”reckless” Earthlife Africa’s allegations that the nuclear facility at Pelindaba has been dumping radioactive waste.
<B>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</B> According to Malena Amuso <i>xXx II:The Next Level</i> is a seriously entertaining action movie with enough intellectual acuity to satisfy the esoteric café-goers.
A hearing to decide whether Harmony Gold may go ahead with a hostile takeover of rival mining house Gold Fields is scheduled for next week, but a last minute court application could stall the inquiry. The Competition Tribunal said the hearing would start on Tuesday, but Gold Fields has applied for an interdict to prevent any implementation of Harmony’s offer pending a hearing to have the deal nullified.
With smiles from ear to ear at the guilty verdict handed down on Thursday to the killers of ”Lion Man” Nelson Chisale, the public gallery in the Phalaborwa Circuit Court tried to raise a cheer in celebration, but were stopped by Judge George Maluleke, who ordered them silent until he had left the room.