The US is hoping to secure vital leads in the hunt for Saddam Hussein, his elusive weapons of mass destruction and hidden funds after the capture in Baghdad yesterday of his half-brother, Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti.
US forces capture Saddam’s half-brother
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The paucity of employment growth remains an intractable problem facing policymakers in South Africa," says the latest Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Reserve Bank.
Few South Africans know they can complain about bad service from public servants, few of those who know do complain, and those who do complain are often dissatisfied with the response.
A scientific study into aggressive driving and road rage is being conducted among motorists in Durban, the Medical Research Council said on Thursday.
A truth and reconciliation committee is to be set up next month in war-ravaged Burundi and will look into crimes committed since independence in 1962, parliament decided almost unanimously late on Wednesday.
A South African government proposal that succeeded in blocking an examination of the human rights situation in Zimbabwe by the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) has drawn strong criticism both at home and abroad.
Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s application for leave to appeal a ruling striking down new immigration regulations will be heard by the Constitutional Court.
The rain that fell last Thursday night on the royal court of KheThakong in Limpopo may not have warded off the withering drought gripping the province, but to the Balobedu people it was a sign that the gods were indeed happy.
It could only happen with a United States invasion. Poised behind the troops, waiting for a signal that Iraq is safe enough for them to operate in, are the evangelical Christians — carrying food in one hand and the Bible in the other.