Topic - Bill Clinton

All the prime Minister's women - Herald

17 January 12

Regional relevance: International, Zimbabwe

It is the lifestyle of the rich and famous: top of the range cars; holidays in exquisite resorts and lots of women. They enjoy the fun irrespective of the media scrutiny. In some cases, they never seem to learn from their weaknesses. Former United States president Bill Clinton was a well-known womaniser. From a... [read more]

Senegal's Bineta Diop

10 May 11

TIME magazine has named Bineta Diop, Founder and Executive Director of Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS), to the 2011 TIME 100, the magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Senegal's Diop has led numerous peace building initiatives in Africa with a focus on the protection of women during... [read more]

If journalists did their job

17 November 10 | (2) Comments

Regional relevance: Africa

As if the good people of Uganda have nothing better to worry about. By now many are familiar with the recent Rolling Stone article calling for Uganda's "top" homosexuals to be hanged. The story, like many others recently published in Uganda, claimed there was a gay campaign to recruit school children. This piece... [read more]

Morality lessons from Jacob Zuma

12 January 10 | (3) Comments

Regional relevance: South Africa

Jacob Zuma has recently wed a third wife in the fifth wedding ceremony of his lifetime. (He and current Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma divorced in 1998 and Kate Mantsho Zuma committed suicide in 2000.) A fourth woman to join the presidential union is reportedly already waiting in line for upcoming... [read more]

South Africa searches its soul

28 November 05

Regional relevance: South Africa

The bruising political row over the rape charge being investigated by police against former deputy president Jacob Zuma has become a barometer of where South Africa stands on gender violence as the Sixteen Days of Activism campaign gets under way. [read more]