South Africa

- Check out this link for an excellent summary on the growing controversey over the racial abuse by spectators of South African and Sri Lankan cricket players.

- I thought we had moved passed the days of racially identifying suspects in the news unless it was completely necessary, unfortunately this doesn't appear so : "The State's case would centre on a confession by Dlamini which implicated the four, and three other whites in the murders, which allegedly took place over a labour dispute." (Sunday Times)

- The stakes have been raised as the M&G approaches the High Court in an attempt to get Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana's report on the so-called "oilgate" scandal overturned.