Where Ashraf Sadak’s house had once stood there was yesterday merely a large crater.
American values are at stake. Really, what values? That is the response of many; contempt for the United States has never been higher. Asked, as I was last week, by a group of Americans how the world sees their country, one is forced to reply: you are detested.
They call South Africa’s electoral method by a fine-sounding name, “proportional representation”, in order to cover up the fact that it’s actually a bag of extremely smelly political bones that has far less to do with the practical implementation of democratic ideals than it has with keeping one’s party cronies safely in the driving seats of all those tasteful Mercedes and Pajeros.
Though 70% of Americans in the United States back their president’s decision to go to war and approve of the way he is handling the situation in Iraq, most expatriates living in South Africa appear to be ashamed of George W Bush.
Mira Markovic has absconded to Russia and is likely to face an international arrest warrant in connection with political murders ordered by her husband Slobodan Milosevic’s regime, the Serbian authorities said at the weekend.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry has denied that Iraq was receiving any military equipment from Syria.
Zimbabwe is in a dire economic crisis and South Africa’s government and businesses must help it rebuild, a meeting among President Thabo Mbeki and high powered industry leaders concluded Saturday.
More than 10 000 people marched on the United States consulate in Cape Town on Saturday to protest the war in Iraq, and to call for the expulsion of America and Britain’s ambassadors.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in South Africa and across the world have today once again taken to the streets to protest against the war in Iraq.