BRITAIN’S Prince Charles is to visit Transylvania on Friday, two weeks after the last surviving descendant of Count Dracula advertised for a noble English heir to carry on the line made famous by his blood-sucking ancestor.
MORE than 1,2-million Zambians are suffering from hunger, the result of a devastating famine in the southern African country, a World Food Programme (WFP) official said on Thursday.
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SOUTH AFRICAN space tourist Mark Shuttleworth took his compatriots on an an on-air tour of the International Space Station on Tuesday, Russian NTV television reported.
The goalless draw between Cosmos and Amazulu on Wednesday afternoon saw Jomo Sono’s dream of clinching the league title evaporate ? and bedtime brought the Amazulu players nightmares as they became the second team after Classic to be relegated from the premiership.
Arsène Wenger didn’t vote, and he feels guilty about it. ”If you multiplied me by 180 000,” he said this week, ”it would have been enough to take Le Pen out of the race.”
Trials will show the Springbok coach what the Super 12 cannot… Rudolf Straeuli wandered into the pressroom at King’s Park last Saturday wearing two surprising things: a jacket three sizes too big for him and a large smile.
POLICE arrested and charged a columnist for Zimbabwe’s only independent daily newspaper on Monday, bringing to eight the number of journalists arrested under harsh new media laws critics say are aimed at stifling free speech in the country.
SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki described cosmonaut Mark Shuttleworth on Thursday as ”a courageous pioneer for South Africa and his continent, Africa”.
Money is siphoning so fast and furiously upwards from the working poor to the echelons of the rich that a redistribution would have a major effect at the bottom