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Aussies set for London Olympics

SYDNEY. — Australia are banking on their swimmers and ace cyclists as they aim to punch above their weight yet again at the Olympics with a target of 15 golds and a top-five spot on the medals table.

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Jamaican rivalry to spice Games

KINGSTON. — Glen Mills, coach of reigning 100 and 200-metre Olympic champion and world record-holder Usain Bolt and world 100m champion Yohan Blake, sees future champions as a heritage of the Olympics.

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Team South Africa annouce 13 additions

CAPE TOWN. — South Africa’s Olympic governing body Sascoc yesterday announced the addition of a further 13 athletes to the Team South Africa squad that will carry the nation’s hopes at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

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Umguza resettled farmer defies odds
Umguza resettled farmer defies odds

Chronicle Reporter

AN Umguza farmer defied the odds to get a bumper harvest of 13 tonnes of maize in an arid area where the majority of his neighbours harvested nothing.

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Palestinians seek probe into Arafat’s death

RAMALLAH — The Palestinians want an international probe into the death of former president Yasser Arafat after an investigation showed he might have been poisoned, an official said yesterday.

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Diamond acknowledges ‘reprehensible’ behaviour at Barclays

LONDON — Former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond criticised “reprehensible” behaviour over a rate-fixing scandal in a tense appearance before British lawmakers yesterday, the day after he quit the bank.

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South African game farmer jailed over rhino horn

JOHANNESBURG — A South African game farm owner has been jailed for eight years for the illegal possession of 38 rhino horns as soaring black market prices drive massive poaching, local media reported.

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China set to miss upcoming Syria meeting

BEIJING — A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman yesterday said the country’s position on the upcoming “Friends of Syria” meeting has not changed, indicating it would continue with its policy of not attending the events.

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Good Libyan days went with Gaddafi

When bomb after bomb had mangled Libya both in infrastructure and the souls of the its people, some of whom had been so gullible to imperialism to the extent of inviting the war, strongman Maummar Gaddafi was eventually captured and brutally killed.

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Insight into manufactured reality

The greatest inhibition to imperial dominance is justice. It is impossible to be an imperialist and a just person at the same time. Ironically imperialism is and must be fuelled on the pretext of justice and freedom, these being the only nobilities in whose name territorial expansionism can be carried out today. Up to the 1920s one could openly boast of being a colonialist or an imperialist, but that cannot be done any more.

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