Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Olympics decision is an 'enormous U-turn'

Now look it may not altogether surprise you today to hear that the International Olympic Committee has banned transgender women from competing in female events because this was so obviously going to happen once Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the IOC. She was clearly going to do it, given that she campaigned on doing exactly this.

Peter Williams: The New IOC Boss

Zimbabwe, or Rhodesia as it was in those days, used to be known as the breadbasket of Africa. A country with fertile soils and a temperate climate that produced ample food for itself, its neighbours and the world.

But that was before the War of Independence and the rise to power of Robert Mugabe in 1980. First as Prime Minister, then as President, Mugabe oversaw the destruction of the nation’s economy and the forced confiscation of productive land from white farmers by black enforcers.