Tshwane mayor Smangaliso Mkhatshwa and senior city officials should be held personally liable for the costs of an advertisement labelling Tshwane — rather than Pretoria — ”Africa’s leading capital city”, a lobby group said on Tuesday. According to the group, the metro council budgeted R24-million for the marketing campaign.
Two Harvard researchers have accused vitamin entrepreneur Matthias Rath of deliberately misinterpreting their findings to bolster his campaign against anti-retrovirals. In his publicity material, Rath has repeatedly quoted a study carried out in Tanzania by these researchers.
A former manager at Media24, Gasant Samuels, ”pushed his luck” with a female colleague during uncertain times at the company, the Supreme Court of Appeal heard on Tuesday. David Melunsky, lawyer for Sonja Grobler, told the court she had put her trust in Samuels as a protector, and he had abused this trust.
The United Kingdom’s defence ministry on Monday defended a decision to pay for an ex-servicewoman to train to be an erotic "pole dancer", arguing it has a duty to help former troops return to civilian life. Stephanie Hulme received £2 290 (about R26 600) to train as a pole dancer, newspaper reports said.
The most expensive soup in Britain is the star dish on the menu of an upmarket Chinese restaurant in London — at a mere £108 (R1 150) a bowl. Called "Buddha Jumps over the Wall", the shark’s-fin soup is made with whole abalone, Japanese flower mushroom, sea cucumber, dried scallops, chicken, ham, pork and ginseng.
A wronged Israeli wife, whose husband made love to his secretary in a bachelor hideaway, quenched her lust for revenge by indulging in her own extramarital dalliances in the same rented apartment. The woman, from the northern coastal city of Haifa, hired a private detective to track her cheating husband down.
If you lived in ancient India, you would have to observe a strict code of toilet etiquette that determined how often or where you could relieve yourself, depending on whether you were single, married, a student or a saint. Toilet trivia abounds at the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets in New Delhi, a bit of an oddity in a country where an estimated 700-million people defecate in the open.
Ethiopian farmer Abdi Omar Elmi was sleeping when floodwaters swept his six-year-old son to his death. Seconds later, he said, crocodiles seized his two nephews and dragged them off as the surging torrent washed away their traditional stick hut. "I have lost everything," said the 40-year-old farmer from the safety of nearby Kelafo town.
Israel’s chief Sephardic rabbi said on Tuesday he feels ”true anguish” for an ultra-Orthodox teen who was abducted and beaten after striking up a relationship with the cleric’s daughter, but pinned the blame for the growing scandal on his wayward son. Rabbi Shlomo Amar was to be questioned by police on Tuesday.
Uganda has lost at least -million after an uninsured state-owned cargo ship sank following a weekend collision with another vessel in the country’s part of Lake Victoria, officials said on Monday. Insurance for the -million MV Kabarega had expired and was about to be renewed when the accident occurred on Sunday.