by SAPA and Praag The North West Premier Thandi Modise on Thursday condemned the killing of a Muslim man in Magaliesburg, reports the South African Press Association. “There is no place in our diverse society for those who harbour racism and religious intolerance,” she said in a statement. Modise called on police to ensure those
Read more: ‘Racist and Islamophobic attack’ by alleged white Afrikaans-speakers
(Reuters) – A Syrian rebel group said on Wednesday it had killed a Russian general working as an adviser to Syria’s ministry of defense in an operation in the western Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. A video statement from a group calling itself the “Hawks Special Operations Battalion…a division of the
Read more: Syrian rebel group claims it ‘killed Russian general’
The Competition Tribunal of South Africa has fined Telkom, the one-time monopoly state telephone company, with a $54.8 million fine over unfair competition, according to an Associated Press report this morning. The tribunal issued the fine Tuesday morning as part of a decade-long look at the company’s practices. The case began in 2002, with Internet
OAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) — Before he strode into a Sikh temple with a 9mm handgun and multiple magazines of ammunition, Wade Michael Page played in white supremacist heavy metal bands with names such as Definite Hate and End Apathy. The bald, heavily tattooed bassist was a 40-year-old Army veteran who trained in psychological warfare
Read more: Sikh temple shooter Wade Michael Page was ‘white supremacist’
Johannesburg – Judgment in the treason trial of a group of Afrikaner right-wingers is expected to continue in the Pretoria High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday. Boeremag leader Tom Vorster on Monday became the 10th accused to be convicted of treason. Judge Eben Jordaan found that Vorster, who owned a security company, had played a
Read more: Judgment in Boeremag treason trial continues today
Michael Phelps has always talked about changing the sport of swimming. He certainly made it more exciting by collecting more Olympic medals than any other athlete in history. But where does the sport go now that its most visible star is retiring? Swimming doesn’t have an established worldwide circuit, so the biggest chance its athletes
A new book being published in Britain, Mind-forg’d Manacles: Murder, Macpherson and the (Metropolitan) Police by Jon Gower Davies, is set to explode some of the myths around white racism in that country. The pending publication of the book has already led to newspaper artilcles, notably in the Daily Mail, exposing how police have failed
Read more: British police ‘shackled by racism charges’, so Asians may rape girls
LIMERICK, Ireland — An investigation has been launched after Manchester City defender Gael Clichy claimed he was the victim of racism after a banana was thrown onto the pitch during his side’s friendly win over Limerick. Police and stadium officials are studying CCTV footage in an attempt to identify a spectator alleged to have thrown
Read more: Irish investigate banana on pitch, racism alleged
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited with Nelson Mandela at his home on Monday to pay her respects to the aging South African icon. Clinton and a small group flew to the 94-year-old Mandela’s home village of Qunu, where they reminisced and had a small private lunch. Clinton and Mandela’s wife, Graca Machel,
Former Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis will apply for medical parole because he is ill, his wife Gaye Derby-Lewis told Eyewitness News on Monday. She planned to file the papers in the next few weeks and hoped the attempt would succeed as her husband was suffering from cancer and from gangrene in one leg. This
OAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) — An unidentified gunman killed six people at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee on Sunday in a rampage that left terrified congregants hiding in closets and others texting friends outside for help. The suspect was killed outside the temple in a shootout with police officers. Police called the attack an
South Africa had to realise its opportunities before its humanity would fully emerge, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson said on Sunday. The country had to work to overcome several problems, including the Protection of State Information Bill, poverty and inequality, and gender-based violence. Former Irish president Robinson was delivering the
Read more: Mary Robinson has confidence in South Africa’s ‘humanity’
The most high-tech Mars rover ever built has landed on the red planet. NASA says it received a signal from the Curiosity rover Sunday night after a plunge through the Martian atmosphere described as “seven minutes of terror.” The rover is the size of a small car, so engineers had to come up with a
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to meet with South Africa’s anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela on Monday, the State Department said, hours after her arrival on the latest leg of her Africa tour. The luncheon with the 94-year-old former president will take place in Qunu, a village in the country’s southeast. Clinton, who met
Read more: Hillary Clinton arrives in South Africa to see Mandela
