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LONDON. — Uefa president Michel Platini thinks Fifa should consider expanding the World Cup finals from 32 nations to 40. The Frenchman believes an increase in the number of participants…
Li Na hits new heights
ISTANBUL. — Li Na’s fine performance in getting to the final of the season-ending WTA Championships was one in the eye for those who suggested that her best was behind…
Serena upbeat
ISTANBUL. — Serena Williams believes her best years may still be ahead of her after she ended 2013 tennis season in record-breaking style on Sunday.
Demise of the black woman
Kamela Mahlakwane “Yellow Bone” . . . the term given to the fair-skinned black woman. It is the phrase that is meant to describe the lightest of the very rare…
Slavery reparations time is now
Dr Nora Wittmann THE prevailing scholarly legal opinion categorically shuts the door on claims for justice and slavery reparations by referring to the principle of non-retroactivity and to the allegation,…
Sweet project, green coffers
Mabasa Sasa Deputy Editor Just last year, it looked as if the massive Chisumbanje Ethanol Plant in eastern Zimbabwe would turn into the clichéd white elephant. And not just any…
Libya: No oil revenues, no security, no water, no electricity . . .
Abdel Bari Atwan Last Friday, the Economist magazine published a report about the implosion of Libya. My attention was caught by the pictures that illustrated the piece — particularly one…
Nobel Prize part of West’s propaganda fog
Finian Cunningham THE Nobel Peace Prize should be renamed the Nobel Propaganda Prize, after this year’s ever-so contrived award to the UN-approved chemical weapons team sent to disarm Syria.
Editorial Comment: Take wheel with responsibility
ROAD accidents, it appears, continue claiming more and more people despite police warnings and advice to drivers to take the wheel with the responsibility it demands.
US telephone surveillance inappropriate — Spain
MADRID. — Spain demanded yesterday details of any US eavesdropping, saying new reports of mass telephone surveillance in the country would be “inappropriate and unacceptable” if proven to be true.