Cruise Ship Security Team Fights Pirates
An Italian cruise ship carrying armed Israeli security guards successfully averted a hijacking attempt by Somali pirates late Saturday, according to multiple reports. ...
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ANC Scores Big in South Africa’s Elections
With returns still coming in two days after the April 22 parliamentary elections in South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) has won...
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Somali Pirates Threaten Retaliation
The resistance put up by the American crew of the Maersk Alabama and the dramatic Easter Sunday rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, of...
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Somali Pirates : An Excuse to Ratify LOST?
Sooner or later it was bound to happen. Over the past several years, American ships and crews had evaded the rising tide of...
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Economic Impact of Piracy Hits Home
The piracy that has become rampant off the coast of Somalia is reported in the news almost daily, but the recent hijacking of...
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UN to Increase Troop Strength in DR Congo
The UN Security Council voted unanimously on November 20 to send more than 3,000 additional personnel (2,785 troops and 300 police officers) to...
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Piracy May Draw U.S. Into Somali Vortex
In December 1992, just weeks before lame-duck President George Bush left office, the United States invaded Somalia to attempt to stabilize and provide...
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Dissension Within the African National Congress
Mbhazima Shilowa, the former premier (equivalent to a U.S. governor) of South Africa’s wealthy Gauteng province, announced in a press conference on October...
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Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe a Lesson in Economics
“Life in Zimbabwe: Wait for Useless Money,” a report in the New York Times for October 2, is a firsthand look at the...
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Mugabe Maintains Stranglehold on Zimbabwe
On June 22, Zimbabwean opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew from his race to unseat dictator Robert Mugabe, who has terrorized Zimbabwe for more...
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Ian Smith and the Fall of Rhodesia
Ian Smith's passing at age 88 on November 20 merited a few mentions in the mainstream press. Unsurprisingly, much of what was written...
Read moreSilk Tie Revolutionaries
Conservatives have long railed at the communist/liberal-left axis that has formed the most visible base of the worldwide attack on South Africa: the...
Read moreMandela’s Messianic Image: The Rest of the Story
The Western media have thrown objectivity out the window in their coverage of Nelson Mandela. ...
Read moreA Meeting of Minds
A full-page advertisement appeared in the January 28, 1987 issue of the Washington Times with a picture of Oliver Tambo, leader of the...
Read moreSouth Africa: The Questions That Need to Be Asked
The issue of South Africa is of concern to everyone, not just South Africans. Indeed, according to former British Foreign Secretary David Owen,...
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