"All thinking people throughout the world recognise that global poverty constitutes the deepest and most dangerous structural fault," writes Thabo Mbeki.
There have not been any arrests in connection with the case of a hacker who apparently siphoned off more than R500 000 from Absa account holders, police said on Monday afternoon.
Embattled Liberian President Charles Taylor said he was offended he had to learn of US President George Bush’s demands that he step down through television reports, instead of directly from the White House.
President George Bush issued a strident new warning to Iran and Syria yesterday, accusing them of harbouring terrorists and hinting at the consequences. ”This behaviour is completely unacceptable,” he said during a joint press conference at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, with the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.
A noisy, drunken game of dominoes is being played at the Committee for the Defence of the Revolution on Havana’s San Lorenzo street, the pieces slapped down on the bare wooden table to the accompaniment of colourful, if amicable, abuse.
The lack of suitable penalties for possession, illicit trade and the absence of legislation regulating firearm brokering are contributing to the proliferation of illegal guns in Southern Africa.
Some short-term suffering before the patient recovers next year — that’s the diagnosis for the South African economy. SA’s economic slowdown has been stronger than expected, but analysts remain optimistic.
The huge picture on the front page of <i>The Star</i> said it all. There was Dubya, Master of the Universe, striding down a red carpet in the garden of the presidential guesthouse in Pretoria, with our own president trotting dutifully along beside him, trying to stay in the picture. Behind them, in soft focus, came the two first ladies.
The oldest and most distant planet yet discovered has been found 5 600 light years from Earth. It is 800 times bigger than our own planet. The discovery could force astronomers to rethink theories of how planets are made.
United States Treasury Secretary John Snow shrugged off concerns about the US’s deficit last week, insisting that a recovery in the world’s largest economy would help close the record gap between revenues and spending.