It isn’t often one South African columnist gets the chance to say helpful things about another. A splendid opportunity has now come my way and I’m grabbing it to write with enthusiasm about the publication last week of a collection of South African humour, satire and so on.
Never has a post-match post-mortem been as shockingly frank as that offered by Graeme “Biff” Smith after South Africa’s cricketers leapt lemming-like into flaccid ignominy at Lord’s on Saturday. Pursing what would have been his lips if he had any, Smith confessed that “the guys all gave 100%”.
The controversial empowerment deal dubbed "Mzigate" was unlikely to happen now because of a new stakeholder approach to black economic empowerment, officials and industry analysts insisted this week.
Peace brokers will have to unpack the Arusha Agreement to bring the two major rebel movements into the peace process.
Libyan and other interest fuels growing speculation that there is oil in the Mozambique channel. The South African team led to the Comores this week by Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was multitasking.
The International Criminal Court is likely to investigate war crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, said this week.
Zimbabwe’s prolonged political and economic crisis has prompted many of its white commercial farmers to seek a new future in neighbouring Malawi.
Liberia could be plunged into a Rwanda-style genocide if President Charles Taylor goes into exile and leaves a political vacuum behind, one of the warlord’s senior ministers has warned.
Senior United Kingdom ministers are resigned to the prospect that the two British prisoners who face United States military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba cannot be repatriated to stand trial at home because the legal barriers to such a political compromise are insurmountable.
A song, a dance and a few million dollars have propelled Zimbabwe’s Warriors to their first finals of the African Cup of Nations.