Free Republic

"Andre Visagie, a top AWB member, said Terreblanche's face had been bludgeoned beyond recognition. He said his group would avenge Terreblanche's death, but he gave no details." "The death of Mr. Terreblanche is a declaration of war by the black community of South Africa to the white community that has been killed for 10 years on end," Visagie said."

In a closely watched matter, applicants are accusing multinationals such as IBM, Daimler, General Motors and Rheinemetall of supporting South Africa's erstwhile racist rulers Apartheid victims' class action suit against a number of multi-national companies is back in the New York courts next week when the South Africa Apartheid Litigation (SAAL) will appeal their grounds to be heard. Should Judge Shira A Scheindlin give them the green light, they will then begin the process of gathering the hard evidence to substantiate their claims that Ford, IBM, General Motors, Daimler and Rheinemetall each propped up the apartheid regime in various ways...

NPR.org, April 2, 2005 · "Tip O'Neill was correct," says Father Tom Reese, editor in chief of America, the Catholic weekly magazine. "All politics is local... even in the Catholic Church." Reese suggests that instead of focusing on the possible papal candidates as a bookie would look at horses in the starting gate, try to think about the election from the point of view of the electors, the cardinals who cast the votes. "Each cardinal is thinking, how will this candidate go over in my diocese?" Reese says. "If you're from the Third World, you're concerned with people who are...