Like most, I feel a shudder of shock whenever I read the words of Andrea Dworkin. On crime: ‘I really believe a woman has the right to execute a man who has raped her.’ On romance: ‘In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.’ Her radicalism was always bracing, sometimes terrifying, but she was the real thing. Her death at the age of 58 deprives us of a truly challenging voice.
”Four and a half years have passed since the Camp David talks failed to produce an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. The period that followed was catastrophic for both peoples — thousands were killed, hatred spread and trust collapsed. We all paid a high price, just to return a few years later to essentially the same principles of peace,” writes former prime minister of Israel Ehud Barak.
For South Africa, in particular, and the West Indies, the third cricket Test, beginning on Thursday, is crucial. A win in the third Test would give the visitors their fourth straight series victory over West Indies, since South Africa lead the four-Test series 1-0, following their comfortable eight-wicket triumph in the second Test at Port of Spain.
The topic should be viewed in terms of the word ‘equalityâ€. Equality means no superiority or inferiority. Even our Constitution emphasises equality through the Bill of Rights. Former president Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in jail because he fought for freedom and equality among all races and sexes in South Africa,. On August 9, 1956, […]
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The Roman Catholic Church elected German Cardinal John Ratzinger as its first new pope of the third millennium on Tuesday as bells pealed and thick white smoke billowed out of a Vatican chimney. Ratzinger will be known as Pope Benedict XVI.
The new pope appeared on the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica to a huge ovation from the crowd in St Peter’s Square.
German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was elected on Tuesday to succeed Pope John Paul II, was a close confidant of the late pontiff and fellow conservative. The newly elected Pope Benedict XVI, who turned 78 on Saturday, will be expected to maintain John Paul II’s deeply conservative line.
Residents on the main island in the Indian Ocean’s Comoros archipelago cleaned up on Tuesday after the weekend eruption of the Mount Karthala volcano blanketed much of Grand Comore with ash and dust. The volcano sent thousands of panicked villagers fleeing their homes when the eruption began on Sunday.
Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide charged on Tuesday that the United States and France are orchestrating a ”black holocaust” in Haiti that has killed more than 10Â 000 of his supporters since he was ousted last year. Speaking to reporters in Pretoria, Aristide said he remains the democratically elected president of Haiti.
African leaders meeting in Egypt on Tuesday begged for cash ahead of July’s Group of Eight summit, but poor attendance showed tepid faith in the continent’s ability to achieve the stability and transparency meant to underpin the meeting. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak urged donors to boost their contributions.