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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma does not think he placed his rape accuser at risk of HIV/Aids or any other sexually transmitted disease by not using a condom, the Johannesburg High Court heard on Monday. Zuma is accused of raping a family friend at his Johannesburg home in November last year and he spent the morning explaining that the two had sex after he massaged her.
The famous Winchester rifle glorified in American Westerns may have fired its last shot as a plant where it had been manufactured since 1866 closed its doors last week. One hundred eighty-six employees of the United States Repeating Arms Company plant located in New Haven, Connecticut, were thanked for their work on Friday, two days after the facility stopped all manufacturing activity.
Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo dropped his clearest hint yet that he hopes to stay on if Parliament approves a contested proposition to change term limits, he said in an interview published on Monday. ”The reforms that we are putting in place have to be anchored, anchored in legislation, anchored in institutions,” Obasanjo told the United States newspaper, Washington Post.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma described to the Johannesburg High Court in detail on Monday how he had sex with the woman who has accused him of rape. He went to her bedroom on the night of November 2 last year after finishing work, because she wanted to tell him something, Zuma testified.
The National Broadcasting Board of Botswana has extended the offer of a broadcast licence to Black Entertainment Satellite Television (BEStv) located in Gaborone, Botswana and owned by Black Earth Communications (BEC) based in Johannesburg.
Andrew Jones, representative for BEStv, said on Monday: "Clearly we are delighted by this offer."
In a move designed to curb further environmental degradation, Tanzania has ordered the eviction of pastoralists from forests and banned the use of thin plastic bags. In a weekend address to the nation, Vice-President Ali Sheni blamed the East Africa nation’s deteriorating environment on destructive and unchecked human activity.
Iran sent a bellicose message to the West on Sunday amid the delicate diplomacy surrounding its suspected nuclear weapons programme, by firing what it called the world’s fastest underwater missile. Coming amid a week of Iranian war games in the Gulf, Sunday’s test appeared to raise the stakes in the nuclear stand-off.
South Africa kept Australia in check before lunch on the fourth morning of the third Castle Lager Test at the Wanderers on Monday, and the visitors went to lunch on 54 for two. They still need 238 to win. Australia needed just 13 minutes and 15 balls to wrap up the South African innings.
Sergio Scalpelli still uses the language of Berlusconi-ism. People who support the government are not rightwingers, but ”moderates”. And Berlusconi himself — media tycoon and owner of Italy’s most successful football club, AC Milan — did not enter politics 12 years ago; he ”came down on to the field”.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa was on Monday being treated in a hospital in London after falling ill at the start of the weekend, news reports said on Monday. Mwanawasa became ill on Friday in Zambia and had to be evacuated to London for treatment, the state-owned Times of Zambia and Zambia Daily Mail reported on Monday.