Squatters in Marlboro, Johannesburg, have vowed to fight any new attempts to evict them from the abandoned factories where they have lived in squalor for as long as seven years. They held off the sheriff’s ”Red Ants” workers on Monday with burning barricades at the intersections of roads leading to the area.
Following a day of deadly riots in the streets of Khartoum sparked by the death in a helicopter crash of former rebel leader John Garang, Sudan on Tuesday was plunged back into uncertainty.
The <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> is South Africa’s biggest standalone online newspaper, according to internet readership figures for June, released by the Online Publishers Association and ratings company Nielsen//Netratings this week. In June this year, the <i>M&G Online</i> attracted a record 298 819 unique users.
An Arizona national guardsman serving in Iraq has been demoted for posting classified information on his blog, an army official said. Leonard Clark (40) was demoted from specialist to private first class and fined 640 said Colonel Bill Buckner, a spokesperson for the Multi-National Corps-Iraq, on Monday.
Paris made a bold move in 1977 by building a modern art museum wrapped in large multicoloured pipes in the heart of the city. Now, French art authorities are planning another audacious act: a satellite of the Pompidou Centre that looks like a Chinese peasant’s hat.
New statistics involving gun-related cases handled by emergency service Netcare 911 show a decline over recent months, the company said on Tuesday. ”It may well that stronger policing and gun laws in South Africa are having an effect on reducing the number of guns and gun-related violence in the country,” said Netcare 911’s CEO.
Four people were killed when heavy rains triggered flooding and landslides on Tuesday in the north-eastern provinces of Trabzon and Rize on Turkey’s Black Sea coast, the Anatolia news agency reported. Turkey’s lush Black Sea Coast region is prone to seasonal floods and landslides.
Hillary Clinton isn’t running for president, but her campaign has already started in New Hampshire, traditionally a key United States state for launching a possible bid for the presidency. A group of supporters known as Hillary Now!, has paid to run TV ads this week in several New Hampshire towns.
Security forces restored a tense calm to the Sudanese capital on Tuesday, a day after 36 people were killed in bloody riots sparked by the death of Sudanese vice-president and former southern rebel leader John Garang. Three days of national mourning were declared following his death, but it was not immediately clear when or where his funeral will be held.
After an inauspicious plop into the choppy waters off Alcatraz, Jake the pooch swam into the history books as the first canine to escape from the former prison island to San Francisco. The golden retriever and his human swimming buddy, Jeff Pokonosky, led a group of competitors that jumped from a boat in waters off the prison for a 2km swim to San Francisco on Saturday.