Saddam Hussein’s government yesterday threatened to strike back with ”a non-conventional act” against US forces ringing Baghdad but insisted it would involve a suicide attack rather than chemical or biological weapons.
In a week during which an apparent ”operational pause” by coalition forces was replaced by sweeping advances right to the outskirts of Baghdad, it has been as difficult as ever to discern hard fact from the fog of war.
Swaziland’s mountainous northern Hhohho Region, one of Southern Africa’s prime marijuana growing areas, is being targeted in a new strategy to convince farmers that now is the time to switch crops.
In an attempt to save face and recover sales volumes, elements in the maize industry chain are trying to reap additional profit from gradual reductions in maize-meal prices.
Good legislation is made when it achieves the careful balances required to satisfy the different interests in society. Such balance means a law does not favour any particular interest group and therefore prejudice another.
Sydney Brenner won the Nobel Prize for Medicine last year and is one of South Africa’s most distinguished scientists. He looked up at the whale skeleton suspended just above his head and quipped: "Now I know how Jonah felt."
In starting up their own parties, Patricia de Lille and Peter Marais are indulging a long-established fashion in irrelevant politics. Not that the Pan Africanist Congress – from which Ms de Lille has withdrawn her often hypocritical expediencies – has ever been anything to write home about when it came to relevance.
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party celebrated crucial by-election victories in the capital on Monday, billing them as a springboard for mass action to topple President Robert Mugabe.
There’s one day of the year on which you should always look at the news media a little skeef, so to speak, and that’s on April 1. All the silly stories that journalists have lurking in their twisted little minds appear on the front pages – and this often gets people who haven’t checked their calendars in a bit of a tizz…
The Draconian powers of the Swaziland monarchy have virtually destroyed the judicial system, according to the International Bar Association (IBA) in a groundbreaking report released this week. The IBA revealed the breach between the rule of law in Swaziland and the monarchy.