As Machel stormed the Aids conference in Barcelona and lambasted world leaders for doing too little to confront the pandemic, nearly everyone in the hall was swept off their feet. So, too, were television viewers in South Africa as they watched Machel slamming Southern African nations.
The 60 blind Liberians who were reported missing in May have been found following the recapture by Liberian government forces of Tubmanburg town in western Bomi County from rebel control, news organisations reported on Sunday. Shortly after the rebels were driven out, the agencies said, scores of malnourished civilians including 52 blind people emerged from […]
Still smarting from the African National Congress backlash against their anti-privatisation campaign last year, trade unionists and left-wingers in the party are expected to withdraw support from Mosiuoa Lekota in favour of Jacob Zuma for the deputy presidency of the ANC.
An Israeli air strike killed 11 civilians in an air strike that blew apart the top Palestinian militant it was targeting, wounded 140 more and put a damper on a round of promising diplomacy.
South African forward Victor Matfield has warned the world champion Wallabies to expect a brutal contest in the forwards of the Tri-Nations rugby test on Saturday.
Tanzania has rejected, as ”sensationalism”, ”factual blunders” and ”total lies”, reports in the British press of a row between the government and the World Bank over moves to buy a new multi-million dollar presidential jet.
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Fifty years ago on Tuesday a group of nationalist military officers seized power in Egypt, overthrowing the monarchy and establishing a republican regime that lasts to the present day. A half-century and four presidents — all military officers — later, Egyptians still argue as to whether or not the so-called July Revolution was the first […]
President Thabo Mbeki on Monday congratulated Ernie Els after winning the British Open Championship on Sunday.
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