Hussein Saber shook with fury as he lay on a dirty hospital bed last night and told the story of another day in Baghdad, a city torn apart by killings, misunderstanding and the startling failures of America’s military occupation.
There is concern in military circles that the SA Military Health Service was not providing SA National Defence Force troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with adequate medical support.
A lost notebook covering three months of the novelist Virginia Woolf’s life in her twenties has been found after lying in an academic’s bottom drawer in Birmingham, Britain, for 35 years. John Ezard reports.
The Zimbabwean High Commissioner to Botswana has assaulted a reporter who wrote that a leading Zimbabwean official told a public rally Botswana was to be used as a launch pad for regime change, the Media Institute of Southern Africa said on Wednesday.
To the monks of Mont Saint-Odile, perched high in the Vosges mountains, it seemed like the work of the devil. During nearly two years of doubt and mystification, 1 100 ancient books disappeared from the monastery library without any trace of a break-in.
The heir to the Max Factor cosmetics empire and fugitive convicted rapist, Andrew Luster, has been captured by a bounty hunter in Mexico. Luster and the bounty hunter, Duane ”Dog” Chapman, were being held yesterday in Mexico after six people were seized in a street brawl following a car chase.
Robert Berold is a key figure in South African poetry. Marita Kritzinger asks him about his new books.
Liza Key’s documentary on Wouter Basson — <i>The Man Who Knows Too Much</i> — screens on SABC1 this month. She talks to Nicole Temkin about trying to pin down a slippery subject.
<b>NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: </b>The new Bruce Willis vehicle, <i>Tears of the Sun</i>, is so bad and so offensive that it doesn’t deserve a review, writes Shaun de Waal.
The government must, at least, extend the childcare grant to children up to 18 years of age and make it available to child-headed households. "The worse off you are, the less likely you are actually to receive grants," says a senior researcher about proposals for a comprehensive social security system.