They’re supposed to be the cream of the crop, going to Washington to protect the newly elected American president and represent Phoenix, Arizona. But the police association said the Phoenix Police Department used race to determine who’s going – and that’s not all CBS 5 News, a local TV channel has learned. One of the officers who’s
Read more: Phoenix sends only non-white police to Washington
British rugby league player Paul Wood has lost a testicle after a collision during the English sport’s showpiece final at Manchester’s Old Trafford stadium on Saturday. Wood was playing for the Warrington Wolves against Leeds Rhinos in the Super League Grand Final. The prop sustained the injury one minute into the second half, but managed
President Hugo Chavez put to rest any doubts about his masterful political touch in winning a third consecutive six-year term after a bitterly fought race against a youthful rival who has galvanized Venezuela’s opposition. The state governor who lost Sunday’s presidential vote, Henrique Capriles, had accused the flamboyant incumbent of unfairly using Venezuela’s oil wealth
by George Monbiot of The Guardian Opium, famine and banks all played their part in Britain’s plundering of the globe. Why now? It’s not as if this is the first time Britain’s representatives have been caught out. The history of governments in all countries is the history of scandal, as those who rise to the
Seven men believed to be members of ATM bombing gang were arrested in Louis Trichardt (Makhado), Limpopo police said on Sunday. “Initial investigations has revealed that the gang was allegedly responsible for more than case 17 cases of safe and ATM bombings, a series of armed robberies as well a murder case of security guard
AUSTIN, Texas — Walking across the South Mall, or scanning the football stadium’s 100,000 seats on game day, University of Texas admissions Director Kedra Ishop sees how much has changed since the 1990s, when she was a black student at what was an inordinately white school. This giant flagship campus — once so slow to
Read more: When does affirmative action reach ‘critical mass’?
During 2004 at a meeting organised by PRAAG, the then minister of defence, Mosiuoa Lekota, promised that there would be nou name change in Pretoria. The following Monday a report of the meeting appeared in the Pretoria News: It’s official: Pretoria keeps its name February 2 2004 at 03:04am By Bruce Venter Pretoria will always
Read more: ANC promised in 2004 not to change Pretoria’s name
FW De Klerk enjoys the spotlight This year’s Nobel prize season kicks off Monday with rumours suggesting the peace prize could go to Egypt’s Maggie Gobran for helping Cairo’s poor, Afghan burka opponent Sima Samar or US scholar Gene Sharp. The first Nobel to be announced this year will be the medicine prize on Monday,
IFP leader says Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s Commission is not a model to be followed. Delivering the second annual Desmond Tutu International Peace Lecture at the University of the Western Cape this week, Mrs Graca Machel spoke of the TRC as a moment for victims and perpetrators to look each other in the eye, and face
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Former President Thabo Mbeki has warned of more Arab spring uprisings on the continent if African leaders continued to be “preoccupied” with enriching themselves and not being concerned about “the lives of the people”. In an interview with The Sunday Independent, Mbeki said the patience of the youth and ordinary Africans was waning, and that their
The body of an Inkatha Freedom Party councillor, who was abducted, has been found in a sugar cane field on the outskirts of Durban, the IFP said on Sunday. IFP spokesman Albert Mncwango said Themba Xulu’s body was found in an area known as eTafulene, near Durban. Police spokesman Colonel Jay Naicker confirmed the discovery
Newly elected African Union (AU) chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has been set up to fail in her new position, former President Thabo Mbeki said in a media report on Sunday. “I think part of this feeling that she is going to change [things] is the failure to understand how the AU operates. People might put a
Websites operated by Sweden’s central bank, parliament as well the security service were Friday offline or reported disturbances, the day after hackers had threatened to target them. Hackers believed to be linked to the group Anonymous on Thursday urged supporters to conduct the so-called denial of service (DDoS) attack after an internet company was searched
Six people, including a doctor, will appear in a Durban court next week after allegedly faking a death to collect life insurance, police said on Saturday. Spokesman captain Thulani Zwane said they used a stolen identity document, belonging to Mandisa Mkhwebula, without her knowledge, to take out death cover. “After nine months of paying monthly
