British Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Secretary Jack Straw was out wooing South Africa this week, promising better deals that could be on the table for the African continent in the G8 summit next month.
Sharp detective work, dangerous undercover investigations and their own high technology led to the downfall of the 23 Boeremag members who will appear in the Pretoria High Court next week to face 43 charges, including murder.
Former first lady Marike de Klerk’s killer, 22-year-old Luyanda Mboniswa, was sentenced to two life terms in the Cape High Court on Thursday. He also got three years for his forced entry — housebreaking — into De Klerk’s home.
Pope John Paul II on Thursday sharply criticised Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s controversial land reform programme as an ”error” which could only create tension and discord.
The Indian diaspora in Africa — many of them on the continent for generations — keep in touch with their roots through the films of Bollywood, the Hindu film industry based in Bombay.
Britain suspended flights to and from Kenya last night after the threat level to UK civil aviation was raised to its highest level, ”imminent”, following warnings that one of the most wanted al-Qaeda suspects was believed to be planning another attack in east Africa.
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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