Media24, the Naspers owned publisher and distributor of magazines, newspapers and online products across Africa, is set to unleash at least four new titles into the local women’s magazine space before the end of the year. The news has left publishers and editors at competitor groups reeling.
Themba Khumalo, newly appointed editor of the <i>Daily Sun</i>, confirmed yesterday that journalist Isaac Mangena has laid a charge at the Orlando Police Station against a group that threatened his life.
Faten Habash’s father wept as he assured his daughter there would be no more beatings, no more threats to her life and that she was free to marry the man she loved, even if he was a Muslim. All he asked was that Faten return home. But the next weekend Faten, was bludgeoned to death with an iron bar. Her father was arrested for the murder.
Women may fool their sexual partners by faking orgasm, but their brains cannot lie. Reaching a proper sexual climax is, for women at least, a mind-blowing event. Large parts of their brains that deal with emotion and fear appear to shut down so that they can enjoy the thrill.
Africa goes into the big match at Gleneagles next month 1 to 0 up but with some dissention in the ranks. To win the final at the gathering of the world’s richest countries, it needs a 3 to 0 result. The -billion debt forgiveness announced in London by finance ministers of the seven most industrialised countries is the first goal of the 18 developing countries that qualify as highly indebted poor countries.
There’s something in the air in Malawi. Media people say it smells like hope. The president says it’s the stink of useless officials. Alaudin Osman reports.
Prisons have released 17 356 sentenced offenders since the special remission of sentence for offenders started on June 13, the government announced in Pretoria on Wednesday. The special amnesty was granted by President Thabo Mbeki in an effort to reduce the pressure caused by overcrowding in prisons.
Eighty years have passed since Rudolph Steiner, the Austrian philosopher, gave the eight lectures that would form the basis of bio-dynamic farming. This agricultural movement has now spread around the world. Biodynamic food is beginning to penetrate the mainstream marketplace, albeit slowly, and gaining a reputation as it does so for exceptional quality.
The price of water will increase by about 16 cents (to around R3,15 per kilolitre) from July 1, Rand Water said on Wednesday. Rand Water supplies bulk amounts of water to municipalities across South Africa, and therefore the increase to consumers will vary, said Rand Water chief executive Simo Lushaba.
Failed Guinea-Bissau presidential hopeful Kumba Yala agreed on Monday to accept the results of June 19 polls ”in the interests of peace,” after three of his supporters were killed during a police crackdown on a rally to protest the vote. ”I won the elections, but the results were changed,” he said.