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By Barbara Jones In Pretoria It was an extraordinary scene. British mercenary Simon Mann was deep in conversation with his chief prosecutor, the Attorney General of Equatorial Guinea, the man who had brought him to justice for...
1. California. 2. Père Lachaise, after whom the cemetery is named. 5. Hispaniola. 6. He was Lord Elgin, of Elgin Marbles notoriety. 7. Mercenary Simon Mann. 8. Time Magazine Person of the Year. 9. The Man Who Broke the Bank at...
I’ve opened a lot of lectures lately – presentations about our Media Cloud research at Berkman – by complaining about the New York Times’s Africa coverage. I cite the fact that Japan tends to average roughly 8-10 times as many...
By Peter Fabricius Foreign Editor Several South Africans, led by a former SA Police Service officer, are working for a Dubai-based security company in Guinea, providing protection and training to the military junta which seized...
Johannesburg — CRAIG* would rather have joined the British army, but is still happy with having served his two-year contract in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). After matric, he joined the Military Skills...
SIMON MANN November 16, 2009 AS MANY as 18 of the 52 Victorian towns listed by the State Government as most at risk of bushfire could be without a designated place of last resort for people trying to escape fires this summer....
Considering the hullabaloo created by the proposed changes in the televising of the crown jewels of sport, a proverb occurs. It is that you can take a horse to water but you cannot make him drink. One of the proposals is that...
'I hit number one on my speed dial. "Mummy?" I breathed expectantly. But that cow Carol was already round there' "Of course I'm thrilled that Simon Mann has been released!" I shrieked in a strangled voice at yet another...
LIVE TEXT COMMENTARY (all times GMT) From Ewan Boyd via the TMS inbox: "Re: 1918 - 1920: Right then, as my NFL-loving boss said only today, "a W's a W" and England get their tour of South Africa up and running with an all...
By HENRY OWUORPosted Friday, November 13 2009 at 19:00 Big players pull strings in murky mercenary and arms world Arms deals and the exploits of mercenaries or “dogs of war’’ as they are commonly known have over the years...
