Organised crime has undergone an ”explosive” increase in South Africa since 1994, the United Nations regional office for drugs and crime in southern Africa says in a report released on Tuesday.
Many Malawians stayed up late on Monday to watch the return of Big Brother Africa on the country’s only television station after the High Court quashed a ban imposed over the show’s sex scenes.
Three men were found guilty in the Graskop Circuit Court in Mpumalanga on Tuesday of murdering television personality and author Pieter Pieterse last year.
A huge explosion rocked the headquarters of the United Nations in Baghdad on Tuesday, leaving several people injured — including Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN special representative in Iraq — and at least three dead.
Former Iraqi vice-president captured
If the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa does not accept a wage offer from the Fuel Retailers Association and the Retail Motor Industry, the union will announce a strike on Thursday. The union represents 180 000 workers at petrol stations, component factories, car dealerships and panel-beating shops.
Three of the 22 Boeremag treason trialists brought an application in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday for their trial to be separated from that of the other 19. Some of the men complained on Monday that they were suffering psychological breakdowns for being forced to listen to ”black music” in prison.
There has been a dramatic increase in the use of heroin in Southern and particularly South Africa since 2000. This is the finding of a report by the United Nations’s regional office on drugs and crime.
Former Iraqi vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan has been captured by Kurdish fighters in the northern city of Mosul on Monday and turned over to United States forces.
Fourteen European hostages released by their captors have told a German minister they are ”doing well”, after an ordeal of more than five months in the Sahara desert, German and Dutch media reported on Tuesday.
One of the South Africa’s leading hospitality groups has urged the country’s ”lily white” tourism industry to proactively push transformation and not wait for government intervention.