Hannah Botha, one of South Africa’s veteran actors and a star of M-Net’s soap opera Egoli, has died at the age of 84. Botha died in Johannesburg on the morning of April 16, Beeld newspaper reported. She was admitted to hospital at the weekend as she was not feeling well.
The difference in asking and selling prices in the property market is back to normal levels, said the MD of Homenet, David Rogers, on Tuesday. ”Clear evidence that the property market has settled … is the fact that the difference between asking and selling prices has dropped back to normal levels of between 5% and 10% in most areas,” Rogers said.
The Cape Town Environmental Protection Association (Cepa) is to drop its court case seeking to stop the demolition of the Green Point Stadium, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported on Tuesday. The Cape Town unicity’s legal team said Cepa’s lawyers had conceded that the demolition could not be stopped.
Strong desert winds whipped up a severe sandstorm that engulfed Cairo and other parts of Egypt on Tuesday, forcing the closure of Cairo International Airport due to poor visibility. Cairo’s airport authorities announced at 8am GMT that visibility was reduced to 100m, leading to the cancellations of more than 15 departures.
South Africa was shocked by the shooting rampage at the United States’s Virginia Tech University, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said on Tuesday. The event also triggered shock and sympathy in the rest of the world, along with questions over gun culture in the US.
I can’t get no satisfaction, complained rock legend Mick Jagger back in the swinging Sixties. Maybe the pair should have moved to Africa. According to the Durex Global Sex Survey, South Africans and Nigerians are among the most satisfied people in the world when it comes to sex, or having the most orgasms.
The British pound broke through the mark in European trading on Tuesday, its highest level since September 1992 as new United Kingdom inflation data strengthened the likelihood of another interest-rate increase by the Bank of England. After moving past the mark, the pound quickly fell back to ,9985.
The family of Michaela Garoenisha Ganchi was ”very angry” following the postponement on Tuesday of the sentencing of the little girl’s killer. ”We are very angry. This guy is buying time. This [postponement] is unnecessary because he has already been found guilty,” said Ganchi’s uncle Bernard Lee.
Pretoria High Court Judge Essop Patel, who was presiding over the criminal trial of alleged child molester Cezanne Visser, alias ”Advocate Barbie”, has died. Patel died of cancer after a long sickness, media reports said on Tuesday. He will be buried according to Muslim rites on Tuesday morning at Johannesburg’s Newclare cemetery.
Opera singing may be a glamorous occupation, but it brings with it some unglamorous hazards. It has long been obvious that exponents of bel canto have a tendency to obesity. But now, thanks to researchers at the Catholic University in Rome, we know they are also unusually prone to "wet burping".