PUBLIC Protector Selby Baqwa has cleared Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka of impropriety regarding her purchase of a diamond tiara, reportedly at a hugely discounted price
There is, then, an important distinction to be made between ”whistle-blowing” for the public good and leaking information that breaches confidentiality clauses and codes of ethics
IT IS unlikely that South Africa’s Constitutional Court judges have been sleeping well this autumn. Next week’s hearing on the provision of nevirapine to HIV-positive pregnant women puts them in an invidious position.
I AM still waiting to celebrate V-Day. I thought I was getting there, but then Brenda gave me the old snort and head-toss and told me that V-Day actually stands for Vojvodina Day in memory of a region of Northern Serbia that was roughly stripped of its autonomous status after a particularly nasty bout of ethnic unrest…
The West Bank was worse than Camp X-Ray but better than Zimbabwe
On the run after his wife, neighbour and an Irish agitator conspired to publish his private letters in The Ben Trovato Files, the author finds himself fleeing from Guantanamo Bay
The US has agreed to sell arms to Algeria to help it put down the Islamic rebellion which has cost more than 100 000 lives in the past 10 years.
Ivory Coast’s slide into civil war took a grim turn on Friday when French troops reported finding a mass grave with protruding limbs, and refugees from another part of the country described seeing corpses rotting in the streets.
Statistics show 344 new cases of sleeping sickness were recorded in northern Angola in the third quarter of this year.
Four men pleaded not guilty in the Harare High Court on Wednesday to charges of murdering David Stevens (48) the first white farmer to die in President Robert Mugabe’s seizure of farm land.