Wearing handcuffs and leg-irons in an African prison, the former SAS soldier who tried to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea in a coup d’état on Tuesday claimed the main instigator of the plot was the London-based Lebanese millionaire Ely Calil.
Two suicide attacks killed at least 31 people and injured more than 200 in Lahore on Tuesday as suspected Islamist militants escalated their campaign of mayhem in Pakistan’s largest cities. The bombs were the latest in a string of attacks against military and police targets in Lahore, the previously peaceful capital of Punjab province.
"By the very fact that they are part of the South African society, journalists are bound by what is in the Constitution. Their responsibility is to take the vision in the Constitution and hold it up and say: Are we living up to that vision?" The <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s ombud, Franz Krüger, interviews press ombudsman Joe Thloloe.
"The Honda Jazz’s 1,5-litre engine feels like a buzzy little unit, but at 120km/h it’s turning over at just more than 3Â 500rpm, which means that you’d be doing over 210km/h before you hit the rev limiter at 6Â 500rpm in fifth." Gavin Foster is halfway through a six-month relationship with arguably the finest car in its class.
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African National Congress president Jacob Zuma sat quietly in the front row of the Constitutional Court on Tuesday, listening to his legal team challenge the validity of the warrants used to seize documents that could be used against him in his forthcoming corruption trial.
Total transformation is needed at the University of the Free State (UFS), the African National Congress (ANC) in the Free State said on Tuesday. Provincial party spokesperson Playfair Morule said the recent ”dehumanising video” which surfaced at the university was just the tip of the iceberg of racist tendencies at the university.
She doesn’t court publicity. She doesn’t flaunt her wealth. She has given millions to charity. JK Rowling has been a model of restraint. In little more than a decade since the first Harry Potter book was published, she has barely put a foot wrong in making the transition from single mother to one of the UK’s richest people.
Russian energy exports are close to reaching a milestone -billion per day value mark bringing in more money for social spending and creating additional inflationary pressure, a report said on Tuesday. Russian brokerage UralSib said in written research high earnings may also prompt the government to alleviate the tax burden on the oil sector
Siyabonga Nqakula, the son of the Minister of Safety and Security, should be convicted on charges of drunken driving and reckless or negligent driving, the state told the Cape Town magistrate’s court on Tuesday. Titi Mthimunye recounted the testimony of four state witnesses that Nqakula had smelled of liquor and that he had been unsteady on his feet.