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 […]
A hill in the heart of Soweto that used to be a dumping ground and a hub of criminal activity has been transformed into an art, culture and environmental centre called the Soweto Mountain of Hope – Somoho. Somoho was created by Mandla Mentoor, winner of the individual award in the Green Trust Awards last […]
Eric Njokweni attended school with Mandela in 1938 and 1939 during Level 4 and 5 classes (Grades 11 and 12) at Healdtown. Njokweni says Mandela was a friendly and outgoing individual who formed close and lasting relationships with his classmates and the civic authorities in Fort Beaufort. ‘He was an outstanding classmate, a friend and […]
Preparations are gaining momentum in Johannesburg for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) to be held next month but many Gauteng learners haven’t the first clue of what the fuss is all about. Learners interviewed by the Teacher had little or no knowledge about the WSSD and an even vaguer idea about what sustainable […]