Tens of thousands of snoopers and spies who worked with the Czechoslovak communist regime to denounce their neighbours, friends and families were unmasked on the internet yesterday.
The ground war began in Iraq last night when British and American marines stormed beaches on the Gulf coast in an assault on the south-eastern city of Basra, amid preliminary reports that Iraqi defences were in disarray.
The Commonwealth’s decision to extend Zimbabwe’s suspension from its councils for a further nine months was not taken by the Troika appointed to deal with the issue, says the South African High Commissioner to London.
A Zimbabwean farmworker was killed and scores of others were seriously injured by army troops who invaded a farm leased by an opposition MP, his party alleged yesterday.
Scores of volunteers were arrested and others dispersed by a police water cannon as the Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) civil disobedience campaign got underway on Thursday.
Millions in the world fought with all their hearts and minds to avoid the violence ensuing in Iraq. Inevitably, there is a deep and emotional void that has opened as the bombs fall.
The sun finally set on Africa’s participation in the 2003 World Cup at Kingsmead on Thursday night as Kenya’s carefree romp through the tournament crunched to an abrupt halt against an organised and efficient Indian team.
The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Council will for the first time disclose a R1,5-billion unfunded pension liability and faces a court battle over its benefit obligations to former employees. The liability stems from apartheid-era discriminatory conditions of service.
In the assault on Iraq, the United States is likely to unleash a new and devastatingly effective breed of weapon against Saddam Hussein’s forces. Launched in a cruise missile, it will fire a massive pulse of microwave energy.
An important question for American and British troops in Iraq is whether Saddam Hussein will play his most fearsome card: chemical and biological weapons. Precisely which chemical or biological agents he possesses, in what quantities and whether he has the ability to launch them, are all unclear.