A scheme was concocted in Swaziland to place a "correspondent", announcer Phesheya Dube, right in the heart of Iraq, without any expense, inconvenience or possible danger. In fact, he would not even have to leave the mountaintop capital of Mbabane.
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding," said Albert Einstein, who invented a variety of theories that have made it possible for us now to be a collective force of mass destruction on planet Earth. But who is saying a big thanks to Einstein for paving the way for the creation of the cruise missile?
With the vast majority of the population of Hong Kong now donning face masks to protect themselves from the Sars virus, the temptation to stand out from the crowd has proved too much for some.
The rift in the West over Iraq puts the global economy at great risk. It seems probable that the big post-Iraq threat to the global economy will be deficiency of demand, and that policy-makers will be under pressure to come up with coordinated measures to underpin activity.
Whatever impression of movement might emerge from public announcements, the creation of institutions and signed agreements, the Burundi problem burns on. Formal Western measures have never amounted to much in Africa when the parties do not trust each other.
Former star provincial cricketer Lorrie Wilmot (59) was sentenced on Monday to nine years in prison, two of which were suspended for five years, for the 1998 rape of a 13-year-old child.
A damning but contested report commissioned by the Lesotho government accuses transport and logistics group Imperial of not giving the mountain kingdom its money’s worth in a multimillion-rand vehicle fleet outsourcing contract.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions gears up for battle with the ruling African National Congress over the privatisation of state assets and the government’s HIV/Aids treatment plan as they decide on the agenda of the Growth and Development Summit.
The Limpopo government has asked the national government to declare several areas in the region disaster areas after a long spell of drought. The drought has left water resources dry and hundreds of thousands of cattle dead in many parts of the province.
The issue of aid and how it’s being played on our television screens reminds us what this war is all about. Not oil, not weapons of mass destruction, but a demonstration of United States power, necessary after 9/11 to impress appropriate fear and respect in the hearts and minds across the globe — in Europe as much as in the Middle East.