Johannesburg | Sunday ACCORDING to a survey conducted by United States broadcaster CBS and the New York Times, a majority of Americans seem willing to impose on others sufferings very similar to those they have so recently endured themselves. The poll indicates that 68% of Americans are prepared to see innocent people killed in any […]

THE chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir Farooq Abdullah on Friday slammed Islamic fanatics for driving a wedge between Muslims and other world religions. ”Islam doesn’t preach terrorism nor advocate it,” Abdullah told a group of police officers in Muslim-majority Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar. ”These fanatic groups have isolated Muslims from the other religions in the […]

Former president Nelson Mandela on Friday gave jailed student Andrew Babeile R20 000 to further his studies while in the Kimberley Prison, the African National Congress Youth League said.

A South African athletics season that started badly improved in the last couple of weeks Martin Gillingham Anything’s possible at Athletics South Africa these days so it won’t come as any surprise if the powers-that-be in Houghton call a special meeting and declare that, from now on, the track and field calendar will start on […]

Barry Streek Financial disarray in the government’s secret services and secret funds, reminiscent of the apartheid era, has been uncovered by Auditor-General Shauket Fakie in two reports tabled in Parliament this week. The reports show the transfer of R51-million of secret funds to the police without the approval of Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel, overspending […]