The blasts in Spain that killed nearly 200 people could illustrate a trend towards "spectacular" attacks, with terrorist groups adopting tactics proven to cause mass casualties, British experts said on Friday.
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<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=32603">The war moves to Europe</a>
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<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=32601">African Union condemns blasts</a>
"Number Four has always been a part of black life in Johannesburg. As children, many of us knew a brother, an uncle or even a father who had been inside. It was also common for us to witness cleansing rituals for people who came back from the prison." Steve Kwena Mokwena unlocks a door to SA’s shady past at an Old Fort prison complex exhibition.
"If Israel can boast of anything in the human rights arena, it is its treatment of lesbians and gays, whose activities were decriminalised in 1988." Israeli culture subsists on the theme of passion in a time of war, writes Matthew Krouse.
Dizu Plaatjies just got a new spring in his step. With a solo album released late last year, and a blow-away performance at the Oude Libertas auditorium last weekend, Plaatjies has been reinstated on the musical map, writes Fidel Mbhele.
Developing countries — the main clients of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank — should have more say in the policy of those institutions. This was an opinion widely expressed on Friday at a meeting in Johannesburg of governors of African central banks and other finance officials.
After opening sharply weaker on the back of world markets, the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was in the black in noon trade on Friday as bargain hunters sought out resources stocks, which were looking cheap after six days of losses. Financials and industrials remained in the red, however.
The African Union on Friday condemned the deadly Madrid train bombings that left 198 people dead, and called for an intensified global fight against terrorism. ”I condemn the terrorist act that took place in Madrid in which so many innocent people lost their lives and hundreds injured,” said AU Commission chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare.
Ghana’s Parliament last month ratified a merger between South African mining giant, AngloGold, and Ghanian enterprise Ashanti Goldfields, to create the world’s largest gold mining business. However, instead of jubilation, the event was marked by a veiled boycott by Ghana’s biggest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress.