A 93-year-old man who acknowledges he served with the SS in the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp but claims he was only a cook is under investigation by German authorities as a possible accessory to murder, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Hans Lipschis was deported from the U.S. in 1983 for lying about his Nazi past when
Read more: 93-year old German prosecuted for being a cook at Auschwitz
Papua New Guinea is considering introducing the death penalty for sorcery killings and rape after a spate of horrific crimes against women drew international condemnation, reports said Monday. Attorney-General Kerenga Kua said public opinion had swung in favour of capital punishment after a series of brutal sorcery-related murders including beheadings and torchings, and the gang
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South Africans have been insulted by the Gupta family’s alleged misuse of government resources, Cosatu said on Wednesday. “It is an absolute insult to the people of South Africa that private individuals can use a public facility for their social activities and that state officials should escort them,” the trade federation’s spokesman Patrick Craven said
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The Minister of Defence, Ms. Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, must provide answers as to why the Waterkloof Air Force Base was made available for the Gupta-family and whether they will be paying for the use of the airport and what costs it amounts to,” Mr. Pieter Groenewald, the Freedom Front Plus’ chief spokesperson on Defence says. According
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Sixteen years ago, Clayton Christensen laid out his theory of ‘disruption’ in the book The Innovator’s Dilemma. From steel mills to floppy disk drives, he saw innovation led by small players trying, failing, trying again and eventually creating products that superseded the market leaders. The book became a bible of Silicon Valley. Last month, in an
Read more: Is your coffee shop a digital monastery? The rise of intangibles
The ANC Women’s League intends approaching the Equality Court after protesting teachers displayed a pair of panties they said belonged to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga. “The [African National Congress’s Women’s League] noted with dismay disturbing media reports about some Sadtu members publicly displaying a piece of underwear attributed to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga
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One thousand Holocaust survivors and World War II vets joined with former President Bill Clinton and Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust activist Elie Wiesel to mark the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 20th anniversary. Organizers chose not to wait for the 25th milestone because many survivors and vets may not be alive in another five
Two missiles were fired at a Russian passenger plane flying over Syrian territory with 200 people onboard, an informed source in Moscow told Interfax news agency. The source of the attack remains unknown. “Syrian [officials] informed us that on Monday morning, unidentified forces launched two ground-to-air missiles which exploded in the air very close to
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A struggle which the Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus) had undertaken for years on behalf of Transnet pensioners for compensation for damages, which members of the pension fund have suffered over the past 20 years due to alleged maladministration of the fund, has now led to the launching of the largest civil claim in South
Read more: Freedom Front announces R90 billion claim against Transnet on pensioners’ behalf
South Africa’s foreign policy regarding the embattled Central African Republic (CAR) remains unchanged, President Jacob Zuma said on Sunday. A meeting clarified a number of issues, Zuma said after hosting a top-level CAR delegation, led by Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye at the Mahlamba Ndlopfu presidential residence in Pretoria. “We received the prime minister of
Recession may just be a word. But in Britain it may become a habit – and a dangerous one at that. It’s possible that official figures on first quarter economic growth, to be released Thursday, could show the country is back in recession, and tension is building. Although economists on average expect growth of 0.1
BP will invest nearly R5 billion in South Africa as a sign of its faith in the direction in which the country is heading, the energy company said on Tuesday. “With the improving investment climate, especially policy stability… being presented in Southern Africa, BP has decided to invest significantly for the benefit of all of
Read more: BP to invest R5 billion in South African operation
A flame ripples from a burner on the back of a deepwater drilling rig in the Pacific Ocean off the southern coast of Japan, heralding an energy breakthrough for a power-starved nation. Japan announced on March 12 that it had extracted natural gas at a depth of 3,280 feet (1,000 meters) from one of the
Police officers knew a substance thought to be muti was given to striking Marikana mineworkers, the Farlam commission of inquiry has heard. Commission chairperson, retired judge Ian Farlam, questioned Major General Charl Annandale on whether they knew protesters believed the muti they had administered would make them invincible and invisible. “They believed that the bullets
