United States actor Wesley Snipes was allegedly held briefly at the Johannesburg International airport on Wednesday night due to problems with his passport. Department of Home Affairs spokesperson Leslie Mashokwe confirmed that Snipes was ”interviewed” at the airport.
Zimbabwe needs to import 1,2-million tonnes of food to support its population, the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. ”Some three to four million people will need help in the next year. It will peak this December through January to March,” James Morris told reporters at the Johannesburg International airport.
South Africa’s largest gold-miner, AngloGold Ashanti, ”messed up” when its employees in a north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) paid about 000 (R61 800) in bribes to the Nationalist and Integrationist Front, the group’s CEO, Bobby Godsell, said on Wednesday.
The first inkling Bob Woodward had that the story was about to break came at 9.47am on Tuesday when he got a phone call at home from the offices of Vanity Fair.
The first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, is threatening to sue his barber for selling his hair to a collector for  000. Armstrong was a regular at Marx’s Barber Shop in Lebanon, Ohio, where he would go once a month. But he stopped visiting after he learned that the owner, Marx Sizemore, had collected his clippings from the floor and sold them in May 2004.
European leaders’ long-held dream of anchoring the continent’s greater unification in its first Constitution was dissolving before their eyes on Wednesday night after the Dutch delivered the second crushing blow to the idea in three days.
There should be no rejoicing over the guilty judgement in the trial of businessman Schabir Shaik, despite its vindication of South Africa’s prosecutorial and judicial systems. Deputy President Jacob Zuma may not have been in the dock, but the judgement indirectly indicts him in such a devastating way that it is hard to see how his political career can survive it.
This is the second part of a deeply disturbed and happy film geek and horror fan’s quick and nasty look over what is locally a mostly unknown and underrated genre. I’ve discovered that there’s no way in hell I can honestly detail horror film from 1960 to now in one 1 200-word column, and do justice to what I’m writing about.
Maryna Blomerus is the editor of South Africa’s first new Sunday newspaper in 35 years, Die Wêreld. She spoke to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>after reports this week that the paper was in dire straits and would not be publishing this Sunday.
It was an agony drawn out over three days under the glare of TV coverage. Because of ill-health, Judge Hillary Squires’s clinical and devastating demolition of Schabir Shaik was delivered in long volleys, punctuated by overnight breaks when the accused had ample time to contemplate the unfolding nightmare.