South Africans must teach their young sons not to feel threatened by assertive girls. If they are threatened, it could lead to aggression. This was one of the suggestions given on how to promote gender equity by Minister of Home Affairs Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula at the official launch of Women’s Month on Wednesday.
Fourteen people were rescued from a truck in a flooded river in Plettenberg Bay using a front-end loader, the National Sea Rescue Institute said on Wednesday. A massive cold front has brought freezing conditions and flooding to the country. Four bodies were recovered after a car was washed away in floods in George.
AC Milan will play in the Champions League this season. The six-time European champions, who had been barred from Europe’s top club competition by an Italian sports tribunal investigating the country’s match-fixing scandal, will face either Ireland’s Cork City or Serbia’s Red Star Belgrade on August 8 or 9 in the third qualifying round.
AfriForum will monitor the execution of the country’s latest crime-fighting plan to determine its success scientifically, the organisation said on Wednesday. AfriForum is a civil rights initiative of the trade union Solidarity. Solidarity boss Kallie Kriel said the government’s new strategy against violent crime is a step in the right direction, if it is followed by actual results.
Richard Hatch, convicted of failing to pay taxes on the million he won on the debut season of Survivor, has been sent to a federal prison in West Virginia. Hatch (45) of Newport, Rhode Island, was convicted by a federal jury of failing to pay taxes on the Survivor prize and other income.
Burundi said on Wednesday it has strong evidence that former high-ranking politicians and a dissident rebel leader arrested this week planned to kill President Pierre Nkurunziza and overthrow the government. Government spokesperson Karenga Ramadhani told a local radio station a coup was planned for June 30.
New York City commuters sweated on their way to work on Wednesday as the temperature and humidity started climbing back up to heatwave levels after a night of little relief. New York’s LaGuardia airport still had 34 degrees Celsius at midnight and eased only to 30 degrees Celsius by 6am, the National Weather Service said.
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The defence in the corruption trial of South Africa’s former deputy president Jacob Zuma is seeking to turn the focus in the sensational case on to President Thabo Mbeki, according to published court papers. Zuma appeared in court on Monday for the first hearing on corruption charges that were at the root of Mbeki’s decision to fire the hugely popular politician last year.
The question over who should give the go-ahead for the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link was argued on Wednesday in the Pretoria High Court. Pretoria residents argue that neither the provincial environment minister nor the head of the Gauteng agriculture, conservation and environment department had the right to approve the Gautrain.
Tropical Storm Prapiroon strengthened into a full-blown typhoon on Wednesday, with forecasters warning of possible severe destruction to parts of southern China. The storm had been steadily gathering strength while churning across the South China Sea from the Philippines, where six deaths were blamed on the severe weather.