The United Nations Security Council on Friday set about weighing the fate of about 600 000 Saharawi nomads who have been living in exile or under Moroccan occupation since 1975 in what was once called Spanish Sahara.
This is a tale of babies and butchers. One baby is, or was, Dina Matar, aged two months, killed by Israel’s air strike in Gaza. Her tiny corpse, paraded obscenely through the streets on Tuesday, is offered up as a symbol of Palestinian suffering. It provides a harrowing image.
Former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni asked Michael Woerful to organise a luxury car at a 50% discount, the businessman said on Friday.
Lemmer wonders, sometimes, if there aren’t a few local academics who look back wistfully to the halcyon days of the Eighties, when students were forever protesting, boycotting lectures and generally taking the spotlight away from the shenanigans of the staff.
I have decided to lie about my age and eight years have gone, just like that. ”Why only eight?” asked my daughter-in-law. ”You could have got away with 10. Easily.”
Cometh the moment, cometh the man. Crashing share prices, global financial instability, deflation lurking in the background: this is a world made for John Maynard Keynes. For those who kept the flame flickering during the long night of laissez-faire, this is their moment.
The see-saw effect between the performance of local shares and foreign equities over the past quarter to perfectly underlines the importance of diversification. The investor who is serious about long-term wealth creation cannot ignore the benefits and good sense of diversification.
Four bleak visions of our region in the year 2020. And one of hope — given the right leaders and policies. This is the thrust of the major scenario exercise by the Institute for Global Dialogue, funded by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, the aid arm of Germany’s Social Democratic Party.
A political backlash gathered pace in the UK this week against Interbrew, the Belgian brewer trying to force media organisations to hand over leaked documents. MPs described the action as corporate bullying and tabled a motion in the House of Commons in defence of the news organisations.
Israeli government and military officials on Wednesday tried to shift the blame to each other for a devastating one-tonne bomb dropped on a Gaza neighbourhood that killed a Hamas military commander and 10 children. The internal debate on Israel’s strategy of assassinating Palestinian militants raged.