The Rain Queen, Makobo Modjadji the Sixth, was buried at the royal cemetery at Ga-Modjadji in Limpopo on Monday, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported. Only family members attended the funeral and thousands of mourners waited outside the cemetery.
They were hopelessly outnumbered, but even then the Greeks knew it would be the battle that could change history. The Asian invaders had entered the Aegean. The ”comeliest of boys” had been castrated; the throats of the ”goodliest” soldiers ripped out.
Dozens of scholars, citizens and journalists will gather in a grand marble hall on Monday to watch a frail 80-year-old man for any sign of capitulation to age or ill health — aware that the looming battle to succeed him is likely to split the country in two.
Iran’s presidential election was thrown into uncharted territory on Tuesday after a hardline candidate who unexpectedly won his way into a run-off vote was accused of ballot-rigging.
London-listed South African life assurance group Old Mutual said on Monday that the adoption of European Embedded Value (EEV) increased its embedded value by 0,5% at the end of December 2004. The EEV principles require best-estimate assumptions, consistency between assumptions and active review.
The JSE Securities Exchange was higher at midday on Monday, with bullion’s break above the $440 an ounce level, lending a shine to gold stocks. Broadly positive sentiment was underpinning the local bourse, dealers said. By 12.01pm, the gold mining index gained 1,1%. The all share and all share industrial indices added 0,23% and 0,32% respectively.
Actress Lorna Thayer, the waitress who memorably refused to let Jack Nicholson order toast in the 1970 movie Five Easy Pieces, died on June 4 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund retirement home after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 85.
Hundreds of thousands of grandmothers, some of them in their twilight years and struggling to make ends meet, are getting a second, often dismal turn at motherhood, raising Aids orphans in South Africa. About half of South Africa’s 1,1-million orphans are being raised by their grandparents.
Police in Zimbabwe say they are taking their controversial clean-up campaign to prosperous suburbs of the capital, where they will target ”illegal property developments” and houses that have been turned into offices, the state-run Herald newspaper said on Monday.
Radical latte lovers are getting the bean rolling in a new campaign against big brand coffee giants like Starbucks. In a new and frothy front in the struggle to turn back globalisation, United States coffee lovers are being offered the chance to wean themselves off what critics deride as the same blends and decor of big coffee chains.