The Matrix Reloaded, the most eagerly awaited sequel of recent times, premiered at the Cannes film festival yesterday amid the kind of security that usually accompanies summits of world leaders.
Bill Clinton was surely cursing his luck and wishing Monica Lewinsky was a little more like Marion ”Mimi” Beardsley, who yesterday admitted having an affair with John F Kennedy while she was a teenage White House intern.
He compares greedy boardroom fat cats to corrupt African dictators. He thinks anti-globalisation protesters are naive and wrong. He takes sideswipes at his old Oxford University colleagues and believes British Prime Minister Tony Blair could be the best thing for the centre-left since Franklin D Roosevelt.
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Some 12 000 people have fled fighting in the southern Nigerian oil city of Warri, the Nigerian Red Cross said on Thursday as it launched a relief operation.
Lawyers in Zimbabwe on Thursday challenged regulations that allow
President Robert Mugabe’s government to tap into telephone conversations and e-mail communications.
A child counselling centre at the Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital is making a difference to HIV-positive and Aids-infected children.
A group of workers protested at the Ga-Rankuwa hospital, north-west of Pretoria, on Thursday against its renaming after the late Dr George Mukhari.
A prominent labour law and labour relations consultant, Nicky Taylor, has been appointed the first chief executive officer of the Wine Industry Ethical Trade Association, Wines of South Africa said in a statement on Thursday.
The largest post-apartheid security operation for a court case is to get underway in Pretoria next week when 23 alleged members of the right-wing Boeremag organisation go on trial for high treason.