It’s a typical starlet’s career. She starts out in video, one cult success leading to a number of sequels. Then the media get hold of her – Time magazine, Newsweek. Pretty soon there’s a string of lookalikes, websites with supposed ‘nudie pictures’, soft drink commercials, and now the biopic. Only this starlet doesn’t really exist.
Johannesburg | Monday SA President Thabo Mbeki is under pressure to resolve a public spat between two senior members of his ruling African National Congress (ANC) over a multi-million dollar pay package awarded to former airline boss Coleman Andrews. Mbeki’s intervention is expected in the week-old dispute over the $28-million paid to Andrews, credited with […]
FOREIGN oil firms working in southern Sudan are “legitimate targets” for attack, John Garang, the leader of the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), said in an interview published on Sunday. “We hold the (Sudanese) government responsible for losses that could be suffered by workers and companies operating in the oil fields,” Garang told Al-Hayat […]
Evelyn Leopold, United Nations | Monday A WEEK before a major U.N. Aids conference, delegates are still embroiled on what to say about sex — among prostitutes, homosexuals and outside of marriage in general, according to a frank document on combating the killer disease. The negotiations, says Iranian Ambassador Bagher Asadi, should not turn into […]
“MISS Nigeria” has been stripped of her crown for lying about her age and academic qualifications, the newspaper group that sponsored this year’s pageant announced on Saturday. The Daily Times of Nigeria said that Valerie Ama Peterside was dethroned “over irregularities discovered with regard to her age and academic qualifications.” She was not born in […]
MALAWI President Bakili Muluzi said on Saturday his government would spend 40-million kwacha ($533,000) to build a high-tech tomb for the late dictator Kamuzu Banda. “I don’t want a cheap tomb. I will fire the committee looking into this construction if it does shoddy work,” Muluzi said as he laid a wreath at Banda’s grave […]
TWO university professors have written an open letter to new Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to demand the long-delayed return of the Axum Obelisk, which was looted by the army of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in 1937. “We feel the time has come, under your Excellency’s leadership, to redeem Italy’s reputation by honouring treaty obligations […]
CALM was restored to Cairo’s streets on Monday after six policemen were hurt in clashes with thousands of Christians protesting against a graphic news story of a monk’s alleged sexual relations with a married woman. Between 3,000 and 4,000 Coptic Christians had gathered at the main cathedral in Cairo late on Sunday, with many clashing […]
United Nations | Saturday THE World Food Programme (WFP) has again suspended cargo flights to Angola after a missile exploded near two of its planes on Friday, the United Nations said. The incident occurred at noon local time near Kuito, in the highlands of central Angola, 570 kilometres southeast of the capital, Luanda, representative Manoel […]
AN angry snub by President Thabo Mbeki, who put his hand in the face of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela when she tried to greet him at a Youth Day celebration this weekend was on Sunday slammed by opposition parties. The incident happened at Soweto’s Orlando Stadium, southwest of Johannesburg, on Saturday where Mbeki was due to address […]