A Chinese Air Force officer on Saturday accused the U.S. government of creating the new strain of bird flu now afflicting parts of China as a biological warfare attack. People’s Liberation Army Sr. Col. Dai Xu said the United States released the H7N9 bird flu virus into China in an act of biological warfare, according
Read more: Bird flu or the American flu? Chinese allege ‘biological warfare attack’
A war of words erupted at the Judicial Service Commission yesterday after a senior judge argued that merit should trump gender and race as considerations for appointment to the bench. Eastern Cape High Court judge Clive Plasket, one of three candidates vying for two seats in the Supreme Court of Appeal, crossed swords with commissioners,
Revellers in Brixton staged a street party to celebrate Margaret Thatcher’s death, culminating in arrests and an attack on a local charity shop. Around 100 hundred people were out on the streets to celebrate the death of former the former prime minister, whose death from a stroke was announced on Monday. A board at the
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was an “attractive” woman, who did more to help South Africa to “get rid of apartheid” than any other leader in her time, former foreign affairs minister Pik Botha said yesterday. Thatcher died yesterday following a stroke. She was 87. Botha, who served as the last foreign minister of
Two men and a woman have been arrested for the alleged murder of a woman in Makhado in Limpopo, police said on Sunday. “Shoppers at a… shop in Makhado [on Saturday] were shocked when a man stormed into a shop, reached for a freezer where he took out a human arm and started waving with
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks was on Monday to publish more than 1.7 million United States diplomatic and intelligence documents from the 1970s, founder Julian Assange revealed. The website has collated a variety of records including cables, intelligence reports and congressional correspondence and is releasing them in a searchable form. Assange has carried out much of
The reason why theSouth African consumer has to pay more for electricity, lies with the corrupt dealings between the Chamber of Mines and BHP Billiton. About BHP Biliton’s power contracts with Eskom, Xolani Mkhwanazi warnes that BHP Biliton “expects contracts to be honoured”. Mkhwanazi also happens to be chairman of BHP Biliton SA. The same
Where did all the money go? “Your guess is as good as mine,” David Montoya, the inspector general of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, says of $700 million in missing taxpayer money that Louisiana homeowners were given in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to elevate and protect their homes from future storms. A
Read more: How $700 million in Katrina relief money went missing
Eurozone unemployment levels have hit 12 percent – the highest in the history of eurozone record-keeping, since the currency was launched in 1999. The average unemployment rate across the eurozone’s 17 constituent European Union countries rose from January’s initial 11.9 percent high to 12 percent in February, meaning a further 33,000 people were put out
Read more: Eurozone unemployment hits all-time high: 19 million out of work
Anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, the former archbishop of Cape Town, was awarded the $1.7-million Templeton Prize for his lifelong work to promote “love and forgiveness”. The 81-year-old Nobel peace laureate, who rose to fame in the 1980s as a vocal opponent of South Africa’s white-minority apartheid regime, will be presented with the award at a
Saudi Arabia is buying an armed drone from South Africa after the Obama administration declined to sell the oil-rich kingdom U.S. Predator or Reaper missile-firing unmanned aircraft. The state-owned South African company Denel Dynamics is working covertly with the Saudis to develop the Seeker 400 drone into an armed combat system for the Saudi military,
Read more: South Africa’s Denel sells lethal attack drones to Saudi Arabia
In what is believed to be the first time since the 1940s, the entire British defense staff will be here March 25 to discuss long-range strategy and the impact of budget cuts with their U.S. counterparts, according to U.S. and British sources. The meeting is reminiscent of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, when British and
A New York State Senator testified in federal court Monday that New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly explained the city’s controversial stop-and-frisk program as a means of instilling fear in young African American and Hispanic men. Twenty-two year NYPD veteran and State Senator Eric Adams told the court that in 2010 he traveled to
A month ago we pointed out that as a result of Australia’s unprecedented reliance on China as a target export market, accounting for nearly 30% of all Australian exports (with the flipside being just as true, as Australia now is the fifth-biggest source of Chinese imports), the two countries may as well be joined at
Read more: Australia, China to enable direct currency convertibility
