Pistorius Bags Extra 15 years Jail Term

  [dropcap]S[/dropcap]outh Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday more than doubled the sentence imposed by a lower court on Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee Olympic sprinter convicted of killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in his home in February 2013. The case, evoking questions about racial fears and violence against women, transfixed South Africa’s tangled, post-apartheid

Mugabe To Go On Exile

    [dropcap]F[/dropcap]ollowing conflicting reports that embattled Zimbabwean President  Robert Mugabe refused to step down, The Nation reports that he agreed to step down last night and also go on exile to South Africa. A Twitter handle claiming to be speaking on behalf of the provisional government of Zimbabwe, claimed that a new government is