A former member of the African National Congress’s now defunct military wing, Umkhonto weSizwe, finds a rare point of agreement with a former conscript in the apartheid regime’s South African Defence Force who says: "We are sitting here, up shit creek, no paddles and there is nowhere to go.
At the halfway mark in the Super 12 there is a familiar look to the log. Four New Zealand sides occupy the top four positions, two Australian sides complete the top half and the four South African franchises run (and in some cases, limp) from
seventh to 10th place.
The war on Iraq, being based on greed, could not be condemned enough, Tshwane mayor Smangaliso Mkhatshwa said on Thursday night. ”The perpetrators of this war even have the guts, the arrogance not only to destroy cities and human beings, but have already budgeted certain amounts to rebuild Iraq to their own design,” he told about 150 people at an anti-war protest outside the United States embassy in Pretoria.
Police and lawyers were due on Friday on the remote British Pacific territory of Pitcairn Island where they will lay sex charges against many of the island’s men.
There was no audible explosion, no discernible change in the early evening bombardments, but in an instant, an entire city of 5 million people was plunged into an awful, endless night.
The whole land stinks of burning. Seen from several miles away yesterday morning, Aziziya was marked by columns of thick grey smoke, like still tornadoes on the horizon.
The last few days have been a cause of great bemusement to military experts. Three divisions of the much-feared Republican Guard were said to be lined up south of Baghdad, itching for a fight; and yet when US forces arrived the Iraqi troops largely vanished in front of their eyes.
Israeli forces have killed six Palestinians, including a 14-year-old, and detained more than 1 000 boys and men in two days of raids on the occupied territories.
Chris Roper complains about noisy audience members and inefficient security guards at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Cape Town.
An old storeroom at the South African National Gallery has yielded a lost musical treasure, writes Sarah Huddleston.