FORMER South African president P.W. Botha declared yesterday he would never apologise for apartheid and denounced what he called an unforgiving assault on the Afrikaner by the country's new black rulers.
"I am not guilty of any deed for which I should apologise or ask for amnesty. I therefore have no intention of doing this," Botha, one of the last two surviving white apartheid presidents, said in a statement after a meeting with Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Baywatch's Pamela Anderson is to divorce her husband Tommy Lee after only 21 months of marriage. The volatile temper of Lee, drummer with Motley Crue, is widely blamed for their marital problems. A lavish lifestyle and heavy legal bills are reported to have contributed to recent disputes about money.
According to divorce papers filed in Los Angeles, the couple cited "irreconcilable differences", and Anderson is to seek custody of their son Brandon, aged five months.
British Tories have heaped scorn on James Bond star Sean Connery for urging Scots to push for full independence. They mocked Connery as "the honourable member for Marbella" (he lives in Spain). The Tories claimed his main interest in Scotland is its golf courses.
The German magazine Der Spiegel has agreed to publish a correction to an article alleging that some of the Rolling Stones' numbers during their last world tour were performed in prerecorded "play back," a lawyer for the group said yesterday. Walter Scheuerl said that under an out of court settlement the German weekly was also forbidden from repeating that the Stones had not played live on their Voodoo Lounge tour.