While South Africans may be divided along race lines on the United States’s military intervention in Iraq (”Black and white take on the war”, April 25), Zimbabweans of all hues are mostly agreed that the US’s crusade to topple tyrants, wherever they are, is a good thing.
This is not how it is supposed to have been. Apartheid gave way nine years ago to the rainbow nation, a miracle of forgiveness and normalisation. Rory Carroll writes about the enduring social barrier between black and white South Africans.
Corporate governance is sound within South Africa’s largest banking groups, an independent review concluded on Tuesday. Senior advocate John Myburgh, who conducted the probe, said no serious breaches existed.
More of the same, only better — that’s the paradoxical hype emerging this week as the video game industry’s three consoles embark on a third season of competition.
Most visitors to Spain know Flamenco performances from show at hotels, which are often staged once a week. But people who want to see the real thing should go to one of the festivals of dance, which are held in many places in Spain in summer.
Incomes in South African black households fell by 19% between 1995 and 2000, while white household incomes rose by 15%. Last year, two out of three black households in Cape Town townships did not have enough food to eat, a recent survey has found.
The state received a severe rap on the fingers in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on Monday for its bungled application for leave to appeal in the Wouter Basson case.
A lesbian couple was granted leave to appeal on Monday to the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein against the Pretoria High Court’s refusal to legalise their marriage.
The fate of over 40 Roman Catholic seminarians abducted on Sunday from northern Ugandan Gulu district by suspected Lord’s Resistance Army remained unknown on Monday as the army said it was still pursuing the attackers.
The Democratic Alliance has retained its ward in Grassy Park on the Cape Flats in a heavily contested by-election, setting the scene for a battle between the DA and African National Congress.