Martin van Creveld’s advice to the US marines on what lessons to draw from Israel’s bloody urban battle in Jenin was precise: Forget the helicopters, invest in armoured bulldozers.
The hijacker of a Cuban airlines flight, who claimed to have two hand grenades on board, surrendered to officials after the plane landed in Key West, Florida. He disembarked carrying a small child
Fighting in eastern Liberia has prevented the entire region bordering Cote d’Ivoire from receiving aid, Medecins sans Frontieres reported.
The chairman of Australian mining group Continental Goldfields, John Stratton, said on Tuesday an application had been made to the Western Australian Court to have a legal action brought by South Africa’s Durban Roodepoort Deep group "knocked out".
A multibillion-dollar international market in the trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation is mushrooming in South Africa. It has become, behind drugs and guns, the third-largest source of profits for organised crime.
Nurses and doctors are still endangered species despite efforts by the Department of Health to retain them, the 2002 South African Health Review has found.
Privatisation of public water utilities came under intense fire at the week-long Third World Water Forum that ended in Japan last Sunday. The World Bank and a handful of European corporations want poor governments to put their water utilities in private hands, ostensibly to improve the management of an ever-scarcer resource.
Further investigation into the Roodefontein Golf Development scandal could reveal a network of corruption.
It is not too late for the developing world to take part in the revolution that is genetic research, key speakers told a major international conference in Stellenbosch recently.
The two local government unions involved in rationalising Johannesburg city council pension funds opposed the blanket dissolution of the 11 existing funds but have not finalised positions on an alternative approach to rationalising these funds.