The Voortrekker Monument has always been something that you prefer to forget about — if you’re black, that is. There it is, dominating the skyline on the southern approaches to the city of Pretoria, SA’s presumably eternal seat of government.
Here is a message for South Africa: the capital-rich "developed" nations, especially the United States, need a free market in capital more than we need their capital. Nonsense?
With a beneficent wave of his hand, George Lucas declines to make a fuss.
When Rudolf Straeuli sent the Springboks to the Police College in Pretoria, part of his reasoning was that adversity tends to bring people together. Saturday’s win against Wales in Cape Town suggests that he is already reaping the rewards.
It’s got a slightly lavatorial feel to it. A little like Waterloo. Is this to be the battleground that ends England’s world?
India this week looked set to anoint as its next president the man responsible for carrying out the country’s controversial nuclear tests four years ago — a Muslim scientist with no political experience. Dr Kalam met the country’s Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
A blow job has nothing to do with God. Neither does it have anything to do with Deputy President Jacob Zuma, or any other politician. This was the verdict of ”sexperts”, consenting adults and people who sell sex for a living, reacting to Zuma’s comments in question time in Parliament.
MPs, MPLs and municipal councillors will be able to defect to another party without losing their seats from Friday when the 15-day period for crossing the floor opens.
A letter from IFP Youth Brigade national organiser PC Mashego to the manager of Standard Bank’s Simmonds Street (Jozi) branch was inexplicably delivered to the Dorsbult Bar…
Given that her rivals are built like Amazons, her dad has been depicted as mad, and her home has three times been whisked halfway around the world, Jelena Dokic’s appearance comes as something of a surprise.