A total of 212 villages in Senegal and The Gambia agreed on Sunday to renounce female circumcision and weddings featuring child brides. About 1 500 villagers gathered in Diamakouta in southern Senegal near the Gambian border for a ceremony led by Tostan, a local Senegalese NGO working to eradicate female circumcision.
Two pastors were among the five people killed when their vehicles collided head-on on the Mafikeng-Lichtenburg road on Sunday, the North West transport department said. Also, seven people were killed when three vehicles burst into flames after colliding on the R34 route between Vryheid and Melmoth on Monday.
Zimbabwean police on Sunday freed the bulk of 200 youth opposition activists arrested in a raid on their party headquarters, as a police official said they were suspects in a spate of recent firebombings. The Movement for Democratic Change opposition members were arrested on Saturday.
The Department of Minerals and Energy’s proposals for energy levies on fuel-guzzling cars signify a welcome greater responsiveness to the climate-change debate, but need reworking, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Sunday. ”It is hard not to be suspicious that this is simply another money-making plan,” said DA spokesperson Hendrik Schmidt.
Telkom Media has welcomed the start of hearings by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) to grant new satellite pay-TV licences for broadcasters, saying it will extend competition and offer TV consumers more choice at attractive prices.
A meeting between public-sector unions and the government was set to begin on Monday in order to avert a national strike over salary increases. The two-day meeting, to be held at the offices of the Public Service Coordinating Bargaining Council, would end on Tuesday.
During the launch of the Honda Civic Type-R, we asked assistant to Honda’s MD, Seki Inaba, why South Africa hadn’t received any Honda hybrid vehicles yet. His answer was one that epitomised why so many Honda customers love this brand. Inaba explained that Honda headquarters in Japan was not happy with the quality of fuel in South Africa and it was therefore unwilling to make its hybrids available to us.
She was, quite literally, married to the mob. But despite being convicted of Mafia association earlier this month, Ann Hathaway, a former dancer from Rochdale who spent 20 years wed to one of Sicily’s most notorious Mafia bosses, claims on Monday night she knew nothing of her husband’s criminal activities.
President Robert Mugabe’s government is preparing to seize majority shares in all of Zimbabwe’s foreign-owned businesses and mines, a move that economists warn would be as damaging as the widespread land seizures in the country. Top of the list of companies expected to be targeted are London-listed mining groups such as Rio Tinto and Anglo American.
These days we know her as Madge. She’s married, lives in England, has a few sprogs and writes children’s books. In the Eighties and Nineties, Madonna ruled the airwaves in a clinical fashion, using her cut-throat business acumen to turn her talent into the kind of empire that no modern pop princess could ever live up to.