Embattled former transport minister Mac Maharaj and his wife Zarina have become the latest ”victims” of an apparent leak from the Scorpions unit.
When President Thabo Mbeki wrote to his Nigerian counterpart in 1999 to support an application to buy crude oil from that country, the wording was ambiguous. When he responded last week to the apparently fraudulent diversion of the resulting contract, it only added to the confusion.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma this week went for the jugular as he staged a counter-attack against the National Directorate of Public Prosecutions and its chief Bulelani Ngcuka.
A severe shortage of Zimbabwean banknotes has led to riots in Harare as people have shattered banks’ plate glass windows and desperate workers, including police and army troops, have camped outside banks to wait for deliveries.
A Malawian journalist has been sacked from an Islamic radio station for broadcasting an interview with wives of five alleged al-Qaeda members deported last month from the southern African country under US orders, a radio official said on Thursday.
The world cannot just watch as west Africa falls apart, the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, said last week.
It’s a special offer for this month only: a race-based bonus in the name of integration, diversity and the good Lord himself. A church in Louisiana will pay white people to attend its services, offering per hour for those who attend its Sunday services and for anyone who comes on Thursday.
On Sunday, April 6, at the Al Kindi hospital in downton Baghdad, Samia Nakhoul stumbled across the most horrific thing she had ever seen. In the last, chaotic days of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Nakhoul, the Gulf bureau chief of Reuters, had taken to touring the hospitals daily to monitor the casualties from the blitzkrieg of American bombing that was battering the Iraqi capital.
From the moment Graeme Smith won the toss at Edgbaston, he defied a recent spate of Test-match results at this venue by batting first. In recent times, the teams batting here first have lost.
South Africa went on trial this week: a trial of conscience, integrity and commitment to the values enshrined in our republic’s founding document. It is time for the nation to ask what our attitude to malfeasance is.