It’s not only in headlines that the obvious is so often and unnecessarily stated. Those pesky parts of speech called adverbs are also perpetrators of this crime, writes Sue De Groot
While South Africa’s politicians seem more interested in spitting venom at each other and sinking their fangs into their opponents than saving a country in a perilous spiral of descent, a pilot called Rudolf Erasmus gave the entire world a pick-me-up this week for safely making an emergency landing in terrible weather conditions, writes Sue de Groot.
The ICC does not have its own police force. It relies on the authorities in every state member of the UN to nab the wanted individual and take them into custody, writes Sue de Groot