US Secretary of State Colin Powell met in Washington on Tuesday with a controversial Roman Catholic archbishop from Zimbabwe to thank him for his outspoken opposition to the practices of President Robert Mugabe’s government.
Former President F W De Klerk opened the offices of the newly formed FW de Klerk Foundation in Tygerberg Hills Park in Cape Town on Tuesday, a representative for the foundation said in a statement.
The South African team attempting to reach the summit of Mt Everest –the world’s highest point — have had to turn back due to bad weather conditions, their publicity team said on Wednesday.
The government’s final report on the R60-billion arms procurement deal was heavily edited and it left out findings on gifts received by key players in the controversial deal.
The editor of a Moroccan satirical newspaper today risks becoming the first journalist to be jailed in his country for 23 years when he is expected to be found guilty of insulting King Mohammed.
Civil liberties groups raised their concerns yesterday about the Pentagon’s plans for cyber-surveillance systems which would give the government access to private e-mails and medical, education, travel and financial records.
There is no lock on the door, no phalanx of guards, no visible impediment to the drugs leaving the glass chamber that the laboratory technicians call a ”stability room”. The pills come in little white boxes with labels such as lamivudine, zidovudine and efavirenz, technical names disguising the fact that these tablets are the stuff of life.
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The South African government condemned on Tuesday ”in the strongest possible terms” the latest spate of suicide bombings in the Middle East.