Police on Tuesday questioned the editor of a privately owned Zimbabwe weekly newspaper after it published an article alleging a scandal over ballot boxes and papers from last month’s elections. The editor was summoned to Harare’s main police station to answer questions about an article stating that police arrested a district administrator found with seven ballot boxes and ballot papers at his home.
World number three Ernie Els said on Wednesday that he was itching to get back into contention for golf’s biggest prizes after a disappointing United States Masters where he finished a distant 47th. The triple major-winner, launching his bid to become the first three-time winner of the Johnnie Walker Classic, said he would use the tournament to correct the ”technical faults” which plagued him at Augusta.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Wednesday said it is still consulting with its lawyers on whether to go ahead in seeking a court interdict to stop gold-miner Harmony Gold from retrenching workers. An NUM spokesperson said the union is still not sure whether it will go ahead in seeking the interdict against the company.
Africa’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati III of Swaziland, celebrated his 37th birthday on Tuesday with a R10,5-million bash amid criticism that his extravagance was bleeding the poverty-stricken and HIV/Aids-afflicted nation dry. ”God has been watching over us since we became independent 37 years ago which is the time I was born,” the king said, speaking in a rich baritone.
The University of Pretoria said its inquiry into the efficacy of drugs used in HIV/Aids clinical trials was never meant to be made public. This was heard during cross examination in the Johannesburg High Court where three women are claiming damages against politician Patricia de Lille for revealing their HIV status.
A species of Amazonian tree ant builds elaborate traps to snare its prey, which is then stretched like a victim on a medieval rack before being hacked to pieces. With cunning and patience, Allomerus decemarticulatus worker-ants cut hairs from the stem of the plant they inhabit, and use the tiny fibres to build a spongy platform, French researchers say.
The grandmother of the teenage accuser in the Michael Jackson child molestation case testified on Tuesday that when her grandchildren returned from the singer’s Neverland ranch, ”those kids who came were not my grandchildren. They wouldn’t even speak to me.”
An Argentinian former naval officer who threw prisoners, drugged and naked, to their death from planes was convicted of crimes against humanity and jailed for a total of 640 years by a Spanish court on Tuesday for his part in the ”dirty war” against dissidents conducted by the Argentinian military regime in the 1970s.
The world’s 1,1-billion Roman Catholics were presented with a hardline conservative as their new Pope on Tuesday night when the German cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican’s enforcer of orthodoxy, was elected after one of the briefest conclaves in modern times.
Old paper is given a new lease on life as compressed paper bricks. The bricks are used as fuel for fires. Using paper bricks as a replacement for firewood reduces waste and ensures the number of trees used by the community is limited. The gardening and greening project at the school has become an asset […]