Black navy officers are incensed by the arms deal-related posting to Germany of a white warrant officer recently convicted for unseemly behaviour. Warrant Officer Paul Psaradelis flew to Germany to join the navy crew doing the groundwork for fetching three submarines and four corvettes.
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The irony of our failure to halt the rapid spread of HIV, is that this very failure will halt the rapid spread of HIV. With more than half of all deaths now attributed to Aids-related illnesses, those returning from funerals are now acknowledging a "new disease" is the cause of death.
A little more than 60 days into the implementation of a South Africa-brokered peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, the signs are good. In the agreement the Rwandan government said it would pull all its troops out of the Congo within 90 days.
The drama of getting her former husband to court to set maintenance for their children was the first in a series of events that left Karen defeated, cynical and a single parent in every sense of the word. Her husband avoided the maintenance court for eight months.
South Africa’s master-blaster Lance Klusener was the most notable absentee as the South African cricket selectors made four changes to their squad on Monday for the final match of the one-day international series against Bangladesh.
South African stocks extended their early losses at midday, falling 1,8%, as local shares could not hold out against the sell-off on international bourses.
A week of Nobel Prizes opens on Monday with the award for medicine or physiology and culminates on Friday with the prestigious peace prize after months of secret deliberations.
Oil prices jumped on Monday after a suspected terror attack on a tanker off Yemen raised tensions on world markets already fretting about the possibility of an assault by the United States on Iraq.
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