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Joram Nyathi Spectrum FOR two weeks I have played truant with you my followers. You deserve an apology which I hereby make unreservedly. For nearly two weeks, I was away in…
America and its British lapdog
Finian Cunningham Correspondent In a brazen show of bringing-to-heel in their special relationship, American political and Pentagon chiefs are openly rebuking the British government to maintain its huge military spend…
Why the rise of fascism is again the issue
John Pilger Correspondent THE recent 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was a reminder of the great crime of fascism, whose Nazi iconography is embedded in our consciousness. Fascism is preserved…
Pan-Africanism isn’t that cheap
Obi Ebguna Simunye The 8th Pan African Congress has been scheduled for March 4 to 7, 2015 in the birthplace of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the first republican president of Ghana…
Of Magaya and the crocodile
Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve there is a proverb that says the past is history, the future is a…
Ex-SA soldiers fight Boko Haram
CAPE TOWN. — Former South African Defence Force soldiers are reportedly playing a major role in the fight against Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria after they were hired by the…
Chibok girls still alive — Jonathan
ABUJA. — President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said over 200 pupils kidnapped by Boko Haram from their hostel at the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State, are still alive. Jonathan…
BBC upsets Indian government
NEW DELHI. — The Indian government said yesterday that it is upset by the BBC broadcasting a highly controversial film on the 2012 Delhi gang-rape, in which one of the…
‘SA cabinet pledges to protect foreigners’
CAPE TOWN. — The South African cabinet yesterday pledged to protect foreigners amid a resurgence of xenophobic attacks in parts of the country. The law enforcement agencies will continue to have…
Activists attacks US ambassador
SEOUL. — The US ambassador to South Korea was attacked by a knife-wielding man shouting anti-war slogans during a public event at an arts centre in Seoul. The ambassador, Mark Lippert,…