Being able to prove descent from Genghis Khan, with the aid of a simple DNA test, will in future buy a free meal at London’s two Mongolian restaurants, the Times reported on Monday. The restaurants, both called Shish, are located in trendy Hoxton in the East End and in Willesden Green to the northwest.
Austrian President Thomas Klestil was hospitalised in a critical condition on Monday after suffering a heart attack three days before the end of his term, his office said. The president was revived by a bodyguard who used a defibrillator to jolt his heart back into action after he collapsed as he prepared to leave for his office.
Eleven people have been arrested in connection with violence that erupted in Diepsloot when residents were protesting their removal to Brits near Pretoria, police said on Monday. Earlier on Monday residents of the area burnt two city council buildings in protest at their removal to Brits "without any reason".
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is to challenge the Pretoria High Court’s partial dismissal of her appeal against a fraud and theft conviction on Monday. ”I have instructed my lawyers to appeal against a judgement that is completely wrong,” the former African National Congress Women’s League president told reporters outside the court.
Just listening to Naomi Campbell is enough to get jet lag. In an interview on Monday with The Guardian newspaper, the 34-year-old British-born supermodel revealed how she didn’t stay in any one place for more than 48 hours the preceeding week.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) on Monday declared "war" against the Automobile Manufacturers Employers Organisation after wage negotiations over the weekend hit a snag once again. "We are bracing for massive strike action in the car industry," a Numsa spokesperson said.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan appealed on Monday for a green revolution in Africa, telling a conference in Addis Ababa that ending the continent’s chronic hunger crisis was possible given the right strategies and political will. Nearly a third of all men, women and children in sub-Saharan Africa are severely malnourished.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s appeal against her fraud and theft conviction was partly upheld in the Pretoria High Court on Monday, and her four-year sentence replaced with a wholly suspended one. Judge Eberhardt Bertelsmann dismissed 25 theft charges against the former African National Congress Women’s League president, but upheld 43 of fraud.
Here’s an interesting scenario. Imagine that someone arrived at your farm one day and suddenly declared it to be someone else’s farm. "Colonialism," you’d say. Let it ride. This kind of thing is happening all the time. What can you do about it, anyway? What can anyone ever do about colonial conquest? Shit happens.
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was marginally stronger in noon trade on Monday, lifted by heavyweight resources stocks that were up offshore. However, the low volumes were the morning’s most noticeable feature and with United States markets closed, were likely to remain so.