KAMPALA – President Yoweri Museveni returned home after former South African President Nelson Mandela’s funeral and immediately called his top political and army advisers where he dropped the bombshell. “I’m going home, I didn’t realise just how the world has changed, till I went to South Africa,” said Museveni to the shocked members of his…
JOHANNESBURG – The owners of the firm which supplied a “fake” sign language interpreter to the Mandela memorial event have vanished, a South African minister has said. Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu apologised to the deaf community for the poor quality of interpretation given by Thamsanqa Dyantyi from SA Interpreters. “He is Xhosa speaking. The English was a…
JOHANNESBURG – Thousands of people are gathering at a stadium in Johannesburg for a memorial service for Nelson Mandela. US President Barack Obama, Cuban President Raul Castro and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will address the service, as will four of Mr Mandela’s grandchildren. The service at the 95,000-capacity FNB stadium is scheduled to start…
JOHANNESBURG – More than 70 world leaders from United States President Barack Obama to Iran’s Hassan Rouhani are flying to South Africa (SA) for events commemorating Nelson Mandela this week, an unprecedented gathering that will hail one of humanity’s great peacemakers. Cuban leader Raul Castro, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe and Britain’s David Cameron will also join…
JOHANNESBURG – South Africans have gathered in Johannesburg and Soweto to mourn their former leader, Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday aged 95. Crowds paid tribute, dancing and singing in front of Mr Mandela’s former home in Soweto throughout the night. Flags flew at half mast after President Jacob Zuma announced his death in a…
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s ailing first black President Nelson Mandela is putting up a courageous fight from his “deathbed”, his daughter Makaziwe Mandela says. She told national broadcaster SABC that the anti-apartheid icon was “still with us, strong, courageous”. “Even for a lack of a better word… on his deathbed he is teaching us lessons…
JOHANNESBURG – A Czech businessman who has been linked to organised crime in South Africa has been charged with attempted murder, kidnapping and assault in a South Africa court. Radovan Krejcir and his co-accused, two of whom are members of the elite police unit, the Hawks, have applied for bail. All four men have denied…
CAIRO – A 50-member committee completed Sunday an item-by-item vote on the 247 articles of a new constitution for Egypt, according to a breaking news banner on state-run Nile TV and reporting on state-run al-Ahram Online. The next steps in the process for the the draft to become law are for Egypt’s interim President Adly…
JOHANNESBURG – Not even former president Thabo Mbeki could escape the traffic chaos gridlock that ensued in the Joburg city centre on Friday. Instead, the erstwhile statesman did the unthinkable. He walked. Mbeki walked through the city smiling and waving, leaving behind hundreds of motorists hooting in frustration at the traffic chaos and bystanders surprised….
BAMAKO – Mali’s ex-coup leader has been charged with “murders and assassinations”, the justice ministry has said. Armed troops went to Amadou Sanogo’s home to take him before a judge, after which he was remanded in custody. He had repeatedly been called in for questioning over the deaths of six soldiers during an army protest…
