A once-off wealth tax should be imposed to help compensate victims of apartheid, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) recommended on Friday.
Former president FW de Klerk has admitted that he knew the 1988 bombing of the SA Council of Churches’ Johannesburg headquarters had been authorised by the apartheid government.
The plaintive wail of the air raid siren sliced through the evening at around 9pm, announcing the moment Iraqis had awaited with dread: the definitive start of the war.
As US and British forces swarmed into Iraq on Friday, reports from the front said that Iraqi forces had set fire to oil wells in the southern parts of the country.
The African National Congress (ANC) was first to benefit from the first floor-crossing window period when a Democratic Alliance (DA) member crossed to the ANC in Kwazulu-Natal on Friday morning.
The SA Reserve Bank denied on Thursday its recent move to purchase US dollars was aimed at influencing the value of the rand.
US and British forces advanced through southern Iraq, some racing unimpeded across the desert, others meeting hostile fire. Hundreds of Iraqi soldiers surrendered.
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has reiterated its rejection of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report. IFP national chairman Lionel Mtshali said on Friday: ”The report is a flawed product of a flawed process conducted with flawed motives.”
Multinational oil firms airlifted hundreds of women, children and elderly to safety on Thursday from fighting that has razed villages and disrupted the companies’ operations in the petroleum-rich Niger Delta.