Western intelligence officials are playing down the significance of documents appearing to show that Saddam Hussein’s regime met an al-Qaeda envoy in Baghdad in 1998 and sought to arrange a meeting with Osama bin Laden.
South African president Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday that Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe had in the past said he was willing to step down.
The hotel is described as luxury class and it boasts the longest private beach on the Mediterranean. But is it really a place where an ex-dictator and his chums would hide?
There’s not many in the Dorsbult that call a spade a gardening implement, but the changing nature of language is a topic often discussed over a couple of dops. What got the Klippies flowing this week was an article in The New York Times –one bound to warm the shallows of Manto’s heart.
Among other flaws, the Bill threatens to fundamentally undermine the right to freedom of association – part of the bedrock of our multi-hued and still emergent constitutional state.
What if all of us swapped roles on Freedom Day and found ourselves in the boots of those we have made a career out of rebuking? Would we make different choices from those now in power?
The system works. The conviction of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, African National Congress MP, Women’s League president and national executive committee member, shows that the criminal justice system will convict even the politically most powerful.
The justice ministry on Sunday rejected a claim by convicted fraudster Winnie Madikizela-Mandela that her sentence was rigged by people she had ”worked hard to put in power”.
Sars, the virus that has caused panic across the globe, is deadlier than was first thought, British experts will reveal this week. But predictions that it will kill millions of people are unlikely to come true.
Despite Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s conviction, the scars will not fade for many. As Madikizela-Mandela faces justice, former South Africa correspondent Andrew Malone writes about her forgotten victims.