Former South African soap-opera actress Lindiwe Chibi has died, media reports said on Thursday. The Muvhango actress passed away at the Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital on Wednesday night. Chibi (31) was admitted to hospital last Friday suffering from pneumonia.
The queues for pickles and ice cream are set to be endless when more than 2 000 pregnant women gather in Johannesburg for an attempt at the world record for the largest gathering of pregnant women. The record attempt, if successful, will be recognised by the <i>Guinness World Records</i> book.
The secrecy that surrounded South Africa’s apartheid nuclear weapons programme threatens to envelop the trial in Pretoria of a German and a Swiss engineer accused of using their know-how from the apartheid era to further Libya’s atomic ambitions. The case has sparked media controversy in South Africa.
Businesses in parts of Ekurhuleni, the Free State and Northern Cape are counting losses running into millions of rands after power failures, media reports said on Tuesday. A prolonged power failure has affected Eastgate Mall, one of South Africa’s largest shopping centres, in Bedfordview, east of Johannesburg.
The electricity supply to Bedfordview on Johannesburg’s East Rand is only expected to be restored on Wednesday, Eskom said. The area has been without electricity since 3am on Monday due to faults in two 132-kilovolt lines, Eskom said in a statement on Tuesday.
The man mauled to death by a pride of lions at the Krugersdorp Game Reserve on the West Rand on Friday is the owner of the reserve, police said. Captain Joseph Mogoai identified the victim as Dirk Brink (58). Brink died after the lions attacked him shortly after 12.30pm. Police were baffled by the incident.
Post Office boss Khutso Mampeule won the first legal round in his battle to keep his job on Friday. The Pretoria High Court ruled that he was entitled to receive a copy of a report into governance problems at the Post Office. The report was compiled by an auditing firm after Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri suspended Mampeule.
Pet owners will be compensated for animals that died from eating contaminated pet food, Royal Canin pet-food manufacturers said on Thursday. This follows the deaths of 30 animals to date after a batch of the company’s pet food was found to be contaminated with a substance called melamine.
South Africa’s national parks are poised for a surge in gay tourism now that a tourist operator has launched a series of tours designed to initiate gay visitors to the delights of the savannah. While Cape Town is one of the world’s top five gay holiday destinations, the operator aims to lure gay tourists out of the Mother City.
Wimpy South Africa is probing an incident in which a customer was arrested and assaulted for lighting a cigarette at one of its restaurants at OR Tambo International Airport. The manager at the restaurant allegedly grabbed a cigarette from the man’s mouth when he declined to order something while waiting for his flight.