The number of journalists outside the Pretoria hospital where former president Nelson Mandela is in a critical condition increased significantly on Monday morning. Reporters’ vehicles, including more than 10 broadcast vans, took up almost all the parking spots adjoining the Medi-Clinic Heart hospital. Several police officers were manning the entrances to the hospital. Before 6am,
Read more: Media crowd growing at Mandela’s Pretoria hospital
Information that NSA leaker Edward Snowden is exposing can lead to trials against those involved in war crimes in Afghanistan or Iraq or in money laundering and that is why “the West is so afraid,” investigative journalist Tony Gosling told RT. The 29-year-old whistleblower – who was charged with espionage in the US for revealing
The German Justice Minister has called the British spy agency’s massive eavesdropping of international fiber-optic cables ‘a catastrophe’. Sabine Leuthesser-Scharrenberger insisted European institutions should seek clarification “straight away”. The exposure by former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden of the global eavesdropping capabilities of the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have sent European capitals
Read more: UK tapping EU’s data flows a catastrophe – Germany
The British spy agency GCHQ has access to the global network of communications, storing calls, Facebook posts and internet histories – and shares this data with the NSA, Edward Snowden has revealed to the Guardian in a new leak. GCHQ’s network of cables is able to process massive quantities of information from both specific targets
Fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden was seeking asylum in Ecuador on Sunday after Hong Kong allowed his departure for Russia in a slap to Washington’s efforts to extradite him on espionage charges. In a major embarrassment for President Barack Obama, an aircraft thought to have carried Snowden landed in Moscow on Sunday,
All was quiet outside Nelson Mandela’s home in Johannesburg in the early hours of Monday morning, after the announcement that the former president’s condition was critical. Shortly after 2am, a silver Jeep arrived at the house. The driver pulled up outside the black gates, flashed the vehicle’s headlights and, when there was no response, hooted
US President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to South Africa was condemned on Sunday by some trade unions, political parties, and civil society bodies. “We categorically make it known that the visit of the US president to South Africa is an unwelcome visit that will be protested, picketed and resisted by all justice and peace-loving peoples
Read more: SA unions, parties to protest against Obama visit
Abathembu King Buyelekhaya Zwelibanzi Dalindyebo has described the ANC and President Jacob Zuma as “corrupt hooligans” in Qunu in the Eastern Cape, The Times reported on Monday. At a prayer service for former president Nelson Mandela, Dalindyebo reportedly said the African National Congress had distorted the anti-apartheid icon’s legacy and behaved arrogantly. “Zuma’s leadership is
The newly-launched political party Agang SA is hoping that the same team which helped US President Barack Obama win in 2008 will help it to do well in next year’s election, City Press reported on Sunday. Agang policy director Mills Soko said the party had appointed the Benenson Strategy Group “to advise us on elections
Several police officers were manning the entrances to a Pretoria hospital on Monday morning where former president Nelson Mandela is in a critical condition. Before 6am, three police officers stood at the hospital’s entrance along the busy Park Street. The officers searched cars entering the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital. More officers were inside the facility. The
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by Kevin King A few months ago I read an article entitled “Some perspective for racist whites in SA” by Hanjo. If you haven’t yet read it please do so. In his letter, Hanjo basically says the following things: a) He advocates AA/BEE (Affirmative Action/Black Economic Empowerment) – provides the reason that it is to
Numerous relatives of former president Nelson Mandela visited the Pretoria hospital where he was spending his 15th day on Saturday. Mandela’s ex-wife, ANC MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela arrived at the Medi-Clinic Heart hospital in Arcadia, east of Pretoria. She was with her daughter Zindzi Mandela-Motlhajwa. Madiba’s daughter, Makaziwe drove into the hospital in her red Range
NOT long before David Cameron became UK prime minister, he famously prescribed some holiday reading for his colleagues: a book modestly entitled Nudge. Cameron wasn’t the only world leader to find it compelling. US president Barack Obama soon appointed one of its authors, Cass Sunstein, a social scientist at the University of Chicago, to a
The US decision to arm the Syrian rebels fighting government troops has sparked feuds among various rebel factions dominated by radical Islamist fighters. As internal schisms among the rebels deepen, fighters from the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front have reportedly assassinated a large number of officers of the Free Syrian Army. The Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front is now
