A Kenyan court on Wednesday charged five teenage boys with rape in connection with an incident in which as many as 10 young girls were sexually assaulted outside a high school last month. The five suspects, arrested on March 29 after three of the alleged victims identified them as their attackers, pleaded not guilty to rape and indecent assault charges.
Confirming the suspension of the Eastern Cape’s superintendent general of health, provincial health minister Bevan Goqwana on Wednesday resisted calls for him to resign. ”I don’t think I will resign,” Goqwana said. Asked if he was satisfied with his work, Goqwana said: ”I’m a human being … I’m satisfied. I think I’m on the right track.”
Sudan said on Wednesday it would allow United Nations Undersecretary Jan Egeland to visit Darfur, three days after it barred his flight to the conflict-ridden region of the country. ”We reiterate our commitment to receive concerned officials from the UN and all other of those who are engaged in extending humanitarian aid and assistance,” Sudan’s state minister for foreign affairs said in a press statement.
Motorists using satellite navigation around the sleepy English village of Crackpot are finding themselves being directed to the top of a 30m cliff, local residents said on Wednesday. Cars, minibuses and even big trucks often take the steep, twisty road used by holidaymakers, walkers and sightseers.
The Orthodox Church of Greece has decided to keep on public display the corpse of a monk found partially decomposed after 15 years of burial, a discovery that has drawn hundreds of believers to a monastery in central Greece, the church said on Wednesday.
United States singer and songwriter Gene Pitney, a pop-music star of the 1960s whose chart-topping hits included Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa and Something’s Gotten Hold of My Heart, died on Wednesday during a tour of Britain, his agent said. He was 65.
United States singer and songwriter Gene Pitney, a pop-music star of the 1960s whose chart-topping hits included Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa and Something’s Gotten Hold of My Heart, died on Wednesday during a tour of Britain, his agent said. He was 65.
The Western Cape government has approved the development of a multimillion-rand Dreamworld film studio complex. This, after Western Cape environment MEC Tasneem Essop ruled against concerned environmentalists’ appeal that the development could harm a sensitive wetland.
Ryk Neethling of South Africa won the opening gold medal of the World Short-Course Swimming Championships here on Wednesday. Neethling, who led from the outset, held off a late challenge from European champion Filippo Magnini to take the 200m freestyle in 1:43,51 sec.
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Jacob Zuma would have had his cows ready if his rape accuser had agreed to marry him, the Johannesburg High Court heard on Wednesday. However, the former deputy president denied having any part in marriage negotiations, saying this was done by the woman’s two ”aunts”.