South Africa's last apartheid president FW de Klerk on Friday accused President Jacob Zuma of using apartheid to cover his own government's failure to tackle joblessness and poor education. "Attempts to blame these failures on 'apartheid' will simply divert government and public attention from the urgent need to implement the kind of realistic solutions" needed to address spiralling social and economic woes, he said.

Ten years ago, shortly after the Western forces invaded Iraq, President Bush on May 1, 2003, spoke with a banner behind him proudly proclaiming “Mission Accomplished”. When the Zardari regime completed its five-year term, TIME hailed it with the banner headline, “A Giant Leap for Pakistani Democracy”. But is it? When the Zardari setup was installed, a top US policy expert gushed, calling it “possibly the best government Pakistan has ever had.” Was it? Policy prescriptions often ignore accompanying pitfalls.

Masters chief Billy Payne has refused to be drawn on the contentious issue of anchoring putters, saying that it was a matter solely for golf's ruling bodies to settle. The anchoring debate has been simmering since joint ruling bodies The Royal & Ancient Club (R&A) and the US Golf Association (USGA) proposed banning such strokes, which involve fixing the handle of the putter to a point on the body -- usually the stomach or chest -- from January 1, 2016.

Lawyers for Oscar Pistorius appealed against some of his bail restrictions Thursday, saying the Olympic athlete might eventually need to return to track competition to earn money. Pistorius’ lawyers say the double-amputee runner, who is charged with murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend on Feb.