India could consider pulling back some of its troops from its international borders with Pakistan once it is convinced Islamabad has permanently stopped the flow of Islamic rebels into Kashmir and dismantled their camps, an official said on Thursday.
President George W Bush thrust the war on terror back to centre stage this week, pledging a ”full-scale manhunt” against al-Qaida, as doubts began to snowball about United States government claims to have foiled a plot to detonate a ”dirty bomb”.
Martin, who owns one of Swaziland’s more successful road freight companies, was faced with a choice: to order the execution or to free two South African tsotsis found with his hijacked truck in Gauteng.
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Last week we erroneously reported that the African National Congress called for HIV/Aids to be declared a notifiable disease.
The International Press Institute condemned the decision by Zimbabwean authorities to put a United States journalist on trial for having published an erroneous article.
The unqualified praise that political leaders have heaped on Peter Mokaba following his death has been more than a little nauseating. Yes, he had great strengths and talents. Yes, we all want to speak well of the dead. But the conscious amnesia on which this effusion has depended is insidious.
Last week we erroneously reported that the African National Congress called for HIV/Aids to be declared a notifiable disease. In fact, it was Dr Confidence Moloko, the deputy chairperson of the ANC’s health committee, who made the call in his personal capacity.
Now and then we hold extravagant and bloated ideas about ourselves. The problem arises, however, when the ideas become fixed and we remain impervious to reason. We become paranoid and suffer from delusions of grandeur.
There go a few more million, this time in glamorous double-page spreads in the Sundays which, in glorious technicolour, revealed Kader Asmal’s plans for the future of tertiary education in South Africa. Not that Asmal would stoop to using such forthright language.