AU coverage by e.tv, hijacked politicians, the pentagon’s new defence plan and the silliest marketing campaign of the week. Just another week’s observation from the stoep for Oom Krisjan.
South Africa went on trial this week: a trial of conscience, integrity and commitment to the values enshrined in our republic’s founding document.
With only three weeks to go before the World Athletic Championships in Paris, the national governing body, Athletics South Africa (ASA), found itself in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation when it announced the core participating team.
The past few weeks have been an emotional rollercoaster for the 16 Premier Soccer League (PSL) teams being voted to play in the Telkom Charity Cup. Voting ended on Monday, with league champions Orlando Pirates absent from the final four teams.
It’s not often in these troubled times that the opposition coach is under greater pressure than the Springbok coach, but that will be the case at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Saturday when Australia play South Africa. Eddie Jones has now seen his team lose three matches in a row and in a World Cup year, the natives are getting restless.
Liberia, Zimbabwe and South Africa face diverse dilemmas with a common theme: the prosecution of sitting presidents or of their deputies.
Asked what he desired most now that he had his new apartment, the young Chinese businessman slowly and fervently breathed the word ”Honda”’. China is battling against the tide of mass-consumption.
Twelve Burmese taking legal action in California claim that their country’s military government used forced labour and its soldiers employed murder and rape tactics to clear the way for a foreign-funded petrol pipeline.
The cost of living in the eurozone has soared in comparison with the rest of the world, according to a new portrait of living costs around the globe.
Saharawi ambassador Mohamed Beissat leaves SA in a few days to take up his country’s most important diplomatic post in Algiers, the host of the political movement fighting for the independence of the former Spanish Saharawi.