Finance Minister Trevor Manuel on Wednesday angrily denied he had referred to Aids drugs as a ”lot of voodoo”. He was forced to defend himself in the National Assembly after two opposition MPs criticised him for his reported comments.
Cruise missiles fired in early hours of this morning were intended as a surgical strike at the Iraqi leadership, aimed at ”decapitating” the Iraqi leadership even before the tanks mustered on Iraqi border had been ordered to advance.
So there’s going be a war. So there’s going to be regime change in Baghdad. So there’s going to be lots of "collateral damage" in the form of thousands of dead Arabs. So what?
<b>10.15pm:</b> US and British units crossing the Kuwaiti border into southern Iraq have seized the Iraqi border town of Umm Qasr, the official Kuwaiti News Agency reported.
King Mswati III has once more become embroiled in controversy, this time over statements he made that the custom of polygamy did not contribute to the spread of HIV/Aids, contradicting studies that have established a connection.
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The Scorpions investigation unit is within its rights to refuse to say whether it is investigating Deputy President Jacob Zuma, deputy justice and constitutional development Minister Cheryl Gillwald said on Wednesday.
”My fellow citizens. At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger…..
The death toll in the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Cuvette-Ouest Region of northern Congo has continued to rise. Of the 123 people known to have been infected with the haemorrhagic fever, 111 had died, Joseph M’boussa, who is heading the fight against the virus, told a United Nations news agency.