The most evil man on Earth, after Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, is Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe. That, at least, is the view of most of the Western world’s press. On Monday Mugabe insisted that 2 900 white farmers will have to leave their land.
This week De Beers announced it would start making antiretroviral treatment for HIV and Aids available to its employees.
South Africa’s rand wobbled against the dollar on Thursday, ignoring the government’s assurance that it would not nationalise the mining industry, but exporters were seen wading in at the higher levels.
Conservative activists are praising President George Bush’s apparent decision to send Secretary of State Colin Powell to the Jo’Burg Summit rather than attending the once-a-decade summit himself.
This has been a depressing week for sports fans at the Dorsbult. Firstly that fat fool Pieter van Zyl runs on to the field and flattens the ref. Then Rian Oberholzer compounds the matter by saying: ”This assault perpetuates the image of the boorish, boerewors-eating, brandy-drinking supporter…”
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A US spy satellite has photographed some 60 trucks moving about a known biological weapons facility six miles northwest of Baghdad.
The Australian Rugby Union (ARU) said on Wednesday that a South African rugby executive who criticised the Ben Tune drug case decision should disqualify himself from an International Rugby Union anti-doping committee.
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