The first national academy for intelligence in South Africa was opened in Mafikeng in the North West on Friday. Deputy President Jacob Zuma said that the establishment of the academy showed that intelligence had become an indispensable tool in the management of modern states.
It will take Derek Bond some time to adjust to his unwanted celebrity status. When he was told that the president was on the phone, the 72-year-old rotarian assumed it was the head of the Clifton Rotary Club.
Twenty-one church leaders were arrested in Zimbabwe yesterday when they tried to deliver a petition to the police urging an end to its abuse of power.
A wrenching 13-minute video tape of the last moments of the crew of the space shuttle Columbia shows them joking, waving at the camera, and talking excitedly of experiencing re-entry to the earth’s atmosphere.
Hans Blix yesterday hailed as significant a promise by Iraq to destroy its illegal Samoud 2 missiles. The cutting-up or crushing of the missiles in front of TV cameras would amount to a propaganda coup for Iraq.
An insidious new branch office for censorship has been opened. This one is managed by big business’s counterparts for censors, what might be termed its “brand police”, the thug component of corporate fascism
Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang responds to a Mail & Guardian report that quoted her as saying the government will not elevate HIV/Aids above other diseases by giving it priority attention
Fog collection is an innovative solution to the problem of water shortage. Researchers have been quick to latch on to it, but many countries have been surprisingly slow to implement it.
There is another world leader out there who is like Saddam Hussein. He has been in material breach of United Nations Security Council resolutions for years. He flagrantly disregards the Geneva Convention. He has ordered the death and destruction of an ethnic group within his nation-state domain
A message from the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts , which met in Gaborone, Botswana, from February 18 to 22, has pointed out that Lemmer missed an important date on February 22 — World Thinking Day