A senior US official warned that thousands of al-Qaeda activists are still at large and preparing more attacks, as police raids around the world netted several dozen suspects yesterday.
Horror in Casablanca
Night visits to my home by threatening men in vans with blacked out windows. Attacks vilifying me in the state press as a ”terrorist”, an ”agent of imperialism” and ”a liar”. Threats, by phone, email and conversations with ”friends”, in which I was told that I would not be safe in this country.
‘He’ll never silence me’
It’s a business card we really didn’t want to see: Defence Minister. Vintner. Fuel dealer. Inc. But that is, or was until Thursday, the calling card of Mosiuoa Terror Lekota who did not disclose his business interests both to Parliament and to Cabinet as he is compelled to do by law.
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The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) wants to resume building additional chambers for the House of Traditional leaders in KwaZulu-Natal despite objections from the African National Congress (ANC), which argues that the vacant, former homeland legislature building in Ulundi could be used instead.
Former Truth and Reconciliation commissioner Dumisa Ntsebeza has sharply criticised the government’s condemnation of overseas lawsuits against multinational corporations that benefited from apartheid, maintaining there is "nothing illegitimate" about the lawsuits.
A global initiative to end the trade in ”blood diamonds” has been a mixed success in war-ravaged Sierra Leone with a sharp rise in export earnings but illegal mining flourishing nonetheless.
Twenty-two alleged members of the right-wing Boeremag organisation are to go on trial for treason on Monday over a suspected plot to overthrow the government.
The door slammed and the car screeched off at high speed. I was in the back seat, flanked by two men in plain clothes, surely agents of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation. One threw a jacket over my head and held it tightly around my neck.