Washington | Tuesday THE US government fully anticipated mass killings in Rwanda following the 1994 death of Rwanda’s president but still found ”insufficient justification” for retaining UN peacekeepers in the country, according to declassified documents released Monday. The documents, obtained by the National Security Archive, show that as extremist ethnic Hutu militias set up roadblocks […]
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<B>Stereophonics: Just Enough Education to Perform</b>
From homemade meals to Chinese fare, the phrase food for the soul has taken on a literal meaning in the Cape Town suburb of Observatory, writes Sean O’Connor.
If music weren’t important, none of this would matter. A Travis album wouldn’t be something to tie yourself up into knots over, pondering such vital questions as, what do we want from our pop stars? Attitude, glamour, volatile druggies whom we watch from afar, fascinated, appalled, enraptured? No thanks.
Harare | Monday A HIGH Court judge on Monday has granted conditional bail to 21 white farmers arrested two weeks ago on charges of inciting violence in northern Zimbabwe. Judge Rita Makarau granted the farmers bail of 100 000 Zimbabwe dollars (about 1 800 US), but said that 20 of the farmers could not return […]
A SECOND student from the University of Asmara has died while in desert detention for defying government work orders, the university’s president Woldeab Issak told parents on Sunday. Woldeab said that the student, Yemane Tekee, who was undergoing treatment for heat stroke in the intensive care unit at Halibet Hospital, died in the early hours […]
THE Zambian government has shut down Radio Phoenix, a leading privately owned station, Information Minister Vernon Mwaanga announced on Sunday. Mwaanga was quoted by state radio as saying that the government has suspended the broadcasting licence of Radio Phoenix because the station failed to renew its licence in accordance with Zambian law. Radio Phoenix, Zambia’s […]
ABOUT 1 000 activists demonstrated in Durban on Sunday to demand that the government coordinate a campaign to isolate Israel. The rally, called by the Palestine Support Committee in South Africa and the Durban Social Forum, preceded a week-long UN-sponsored conference on racism opening in the east coast city on August 31. The United States […]
THE South African government “will not tolerate” any violent protests at a UN conference on racism starting in Durban on August 31, Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Sunday. “We do not see any reason whatsoever for anyone to be violent in Durban on an issue about racism,” she told SABC television. “My message to […]