Violence returned to the streets of Baghdad with a vengeance yesterday when at least 11 people were killed in a massive car bomb explosion outside the Jordanian embassy, leading to fears that guerrilla fighters may now be turning their attention towards so-called soft targets.
Amrozi bin Nurhasyim stretched his arms out to his sides, clenched his fists, raised his thumbs and grinned broadly at the five judges in front of him. He then turned in his rickety swivel chair to face the hundreds of cheering, applauding and weeping people in the public gallery and gave them the same victory salute.
Barely two weeks after the gold mining industry escaped what would have been the biggest strike in 16 years, South Africa is in for yet another revolt as wage increases and job losses within the country’s major economic sectors reach crisis point.
Following the Bristow-Bovey plagiarism saga, Kirby observes that something has gone wrong when publishers become hostile in defence of authors who have ignored the rules.
World trade rules rob poor countries of £1,3-billion a day – 14 times what they get in international aid and 30 times the amount they pay in debt repayments. Unfair world trade rules are effectively robbing poor women to give to rich men.
The South African man’s reputation is in crisis: he is held responsible for one of the world’s highest rape rates; he perpetrates domestic violence; and now experts tell us he is a womaniser who prefers condomless sex and is driving the HIV/Aids epidemic.
"I am woman, hear me roar!" the battle cry was sounded. Since the Seventies, women have marched to the beat of the feminist drum in one form or the other. However, could it be that the drumbeat is growing fainter?
From cricket prodigy of Mdinge in the rural areas of the Eastern Cape to chief wicket-taker at Lord’s, Mecca of world cricket. Makhaya Ntini has now kissed the hallowed English turf, giving thanks for his remarkable achievement of being the first South African to take 10 wickets in the second Test match against England.
For all the gory mud and compacted fractures, sport is fantasy, and a peculiar one at that. Why does Corné Krige continue to hurl himself under the cleats of galloping Antipodeans while blood seeps from all his original orifices and some new ones, too?
The Jordanian information minister has called the attack on his embassy a ‘cowardly terrorist attack.’ A massive car bomb exploded outside the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing between seven and 12 people.