New York authorities are fuming after the developers of video game Grand Theft Auto, in which players rob and kill their way to the next level, set the latest version of the game in the city. The fourth version of the game openly features landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building.
Construction along the Gautrain route could cause power failures in many Gauteng suburbs, Eskom said on Tuesday. ”Eskom needs to take out a number of transmission lines in the Gauteng area … The risk during this period is that if another transmission line is affected, there is a possibility of load shedding during peak periods.”
The roof of a Sandton office park caved in on Tuesday afternoon, but no one was trapped or injured, said paramedics. At the time, the staff had been attending a braai in the basement of the two-storey building in Wierda Road, said ER24 spokesperson Riana Beech.
Zimbabwe’s state media ratcheted up its attacks on Western diplomats accused of supporting government opponents on Tuesday with an apparent death threat against British embassy political officer Gillian Dare. ”It will be a pity for her family to welcome her home at Heathrow airport in a body bag,” wrote David Samuriwo in the Herald.
Many MPs are reportedly dismayed over a proposed 5,4% pay increase, but no political party contacted on Tuesday would say how much the MPs should get. The recommended inflation-related increase for MPs was contained in the long-awaited salary review, released last week by the Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers.
A Chicago woman is suing her dance partner, claiming he dropped her on her head after flipping her into the air at an office party. Lacey Hindman (22) was a victim of ”negligent dancing”, says her lawyer, David M Baum. ”I fell hard enough you could hear the impact of me hitting the floor over the sound from the jukebox,” Hindman said.
Driss Chraibi, a major figure in Moroccan literature who wrote of Islam, colonialism and the treatment of women in his homeland, has died, Morocco’s state news agency reported. He was 80. Chraibi died on April 1 in south-west France, the MAP agency reported.
The wife of one the most prominent Dutch collaborators during The Netherlands’ occupation by Germany in World War II has died aged 92, her son said in a statement. Florrie Rost van Tonningen earned the epithet ”the Black Widow” due to her continued adherence to Nazi ideology after the war.
Joel Brodsky, whose photography was featured on hundreds of music album covers, has died at age 67, his daughter said. One of Brodsky’s best-known works was the black-and-white image of a shirtless, unsmiling Jim Morrison on The Best of The Doors.
Milton Wexler, one of Hollywood’s most prominent psychoanalysts and the founder of a research organisation whose scientists discovered the gene that causes Huntington’s disease, has died. He was 98. Wexler died of respiratory failure on March 16 at his home in Santa Monica, his daughters said.