The African National Congress will wait for the outcome of the appeal by its disgraced former chief whip Tony Yengeni before taking action against him. This emerged after Yengeni was sentenced to four years in prison for defrauding Parliament.
Dozens of Chechen rebels put down their arms Saturday in a ceremony apparently designed to promote harmony in the war-ruined region on the eve of a constitutional referendum, officials said.
Five South African ”human shields” may ”reluctantly” return to South Africa from Iraq due to family pressures and the ”extreme realities of a war situation”, the Iraq Action Committee (IAC) said on Saturday.
The real-time media coverage of the unfolding war on Iraq is both a showcase for modern news-gathering technology and a boon to US commanders adapting their plans to the changing situation on the battlefield.
Newspapers across Africa poured scorn on US President George Bush on Friday over the war in Iraq.
Britain’s Foreign Office warned on Friday that there was an increased terrorist threat to travellers in seven East African nations after the launch of the US-led war on Iraq.
The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging accused the Department of Correctional Services on Friday of discriminating against its leader, Eugene Terre’Blanche, by delaying his parole application.
The reputation of FW de Klerk, the former SA president who shared a Nobel peace prize with Nelson Mandela for ending apartheid, was battered yesterday when the final report of the TRC found that he had failed to make ”full disclosure” when testifying about human rights violations.
Ending several years of relative tolerance for Cuba’s critical voices, Fidel Castro showed American diplomats and the dissidents they courted that he can only stand so much.
The mayor of the opposition-controlled capital city municipal council said he had to flee a state funeral on Friday after being threatened with death.