President Thabo Mbeki

Work cut out for new SABC chief Moffet Mofokeng GENDER and experience seem to have put new SABC boss Lulama Mokhobo in good stead when she was appointed this week, outdoing former acting group chief executive officer Phil Molefe and another unnamed woman candidate in the race for the position. She becomes the first woman to head the troubled broadcaster, which battles with corporate governance issues, fraud and corruption and a mass exodus of key staff. The Sunday Independent has established...Read Full Story

WHEN did THABO MBEKI deny the existence of AIDS or its linkage with HIV? Answer by G.W. Bush 4 http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/thabo_mbeki/index.html?offset=135& Answer by Brad Morris 9 Here you go, dude. http://web.uct.ac.za/org/tac/ns000908.txt C'mon Moloi, if he didn't give credence to this bullsh*t, he wouldn't suffer the witchdoctor/savage that tells the international medical community that beetroot and garlic are an effective remedy for the disease...Read Full Story

by cdelondon WHEN did THABO MBEKI deny the existence of AIDS or its linkage with HIV? So much has been said – including in this forum – about Mbeki’s alleged denial of existence of AIDS or its correlation with HIV. I’ve never seen a single reference that justifies labelling him a dinialist. It seems the so-called opinionated South Africans are just fed some concocted lies and they readily swallow them. Can anyone give reference to Mbeki’s statement that proved that he is a denialist. I...Read Full Story

ADDIS ABABA ( Reuters ) - Khartoum agreed with southern Sudan 's dominant party on Wednesday to integrate former rebels in northern territory into the national army when the south secedes, and laid out plans to start ceasefire talks. South Sudan will declare independence on July 9 after voting in a January referendum to secede. But important issues such as where to draw the border have yet to be hammered out, made more difficult by Sudan's complex ethnic makeup and history of war. The sides...Read Full Story

A judge on Tuesday jailed South Africa's former police chief and the ex-president of Interpol, Jackie Selebi, for 15 years for accepting bribes from organised crime. Judge Meyer Joffe said he believed Selebi was the most senior official ever convicted of graft in South Africa, saying high-level corruption posed a threat to the nation's hard-won constitutional freedoms. "Corruption threatens our constitutional order," the judge said at the hearing in Johannesburg. "Corruption by members of the...Read Full Story