A recent imbizo (meeting) to discuss the future of the Zulu nation had been unnecessary, Deputy President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday. ”I am a Zulu. You didn’t see me at the imbizo,” Zuma told the South African Broadcasting Corporation at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
Modderklip’s 12 000 illegal squatters are to be shifted from their present location, and the government will not be buying the invaded land from the farmer who owns it. This decision follows a recent landmark Constitutional Court judgement, which ordered the authorities either to buy the occupied land from the farmer or to find an alternative site to house residents of the ”Gabon” shack settlement.
Jay Leno, one of America’s most popular and respected television personalities, gave evidence at the Michael Jackson trial on Tuesday, telling the court that he had been approached by the boy at the centre of the sexual molestation allegations and was suspicious of him.
European Union ministers on Tuesday night surprised and delighted aid agencies around the world when they agreed a dramatic increase in help to countries in Africa and the rest of the developing world that will see the EU’s richest states reach the United Nations’ historic goal of giving 0,7% of national income in aid by 2015.
The House of Representatives defied United States President George Bush on Tuesday night and approved a Bill loosening restrictions on stem cell research on human embryos, illustrating for the second time in as many days that the president is likely to face tough challenges from Congress during his second term.
Dvir Hemo was 11 years old when he stepped in front of a car one Saturday evening on his way to get pizza. By sunset the next day, his body had been interred in the small, neat cemetery in the Jewish settlement block of Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip, where the Star of David flies over 46 graves.
Movie company Sasani could announce a final deal to dispose of its remaining assets within a week to ten days, closing the book on its short existence as a JSE-listed one-stop-shop for the film industry.
This week, I thought, I’d show you the origins of real horror. No, I’m not talking about those naked pictures of Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, I mean horror films. As a serious film and horror geek, I want to do this properly, so rather than give a simplistic overview of this subject, I’m going to spread this over two columns. This first part covers the basics of horror films.
On March 19, 750 people from the Kennedy Road informal settlement in Clare Estate, Durban, blockaded Kennedy Road with burning tyres and mattresses for four hours. Residents in the informal settlement had been promised for more than a decade that a small spit of land in nearby Elf Road would be made available to them for the development of housing.
”In countries like ours, women enter politics in mourning clothes.” Christian opposition MP Nayla Moawad, who made the comment, is one of a few women running for a seat in Lebanon’s male-dominated Parliament. She was propelled on to the tribal political scene by the 1989 murder of her husband, president Rene Moawad.