AN Egyptian woman (19) threw herself from the fourth floor of a Cairo building rather than face scandal arising from her being discovered in her boyfriend’s apartment, the daily al-Ahram said Thursday. The young girl was with her 22-year-old boyfriend, a student and computer salesman, in his house in the main Sunni Muslim neighbourhood of […]
MORE than 100 people have been killed since January in clashes between armed groups in Rusizi, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a human rights group claimed. Of the 104 people killed, 13 triggered anti-personnel mines while the others died when the Rusizi plain “became a battlefield between several armed groups,” the League of Rights […]
A 75-year-old man was jailed for five years in the Nelspruit Regional Court on Thursday for paying a 12-year-old girl to have sex with him. Johan Ngomane of Newskom trust near Nelspruit in Mpumalanga was found guilty of statutory rape and will only spend three years in prison, as two years were suspended for five […]
SuSE, the German Linux distributor, has announced it is readying to release Zulu and Xhosa versions of its distribution. The two new languages will be included as options in version 7,2 of its distribution. The project is a collaborative effort between SuSE and local consulting firm Saffral Consulting. “We are doing the translations locally and […]
PROMINENT Zambian politician and former cabinet minister Derrick Chitala was attacked and beaten about the head during a raid by 15 gunmen on his Lusaka home, police said on Saturday. Chitala survived the attack but suffered head injuries. The armed men stormed Chitala’s house in the upmarket suburb of Ibex Hill early on Friday morning. […]
THE German government is willing to assist the country with money to solve the thorny issue of land reform and resettlement on condition that the money is used to train and equip farmers. The Germans have ruled out the possibility of contributing money to a special land fund. Dr Helga Countess Strachwitz, the German Commissioner […]
DAVID WILLIAMS, Genoa | Sunday GROUP of Eight leaders, surrounded by protesters who accuse them of failing the poor, announced on Saturday a new deal to eradicate poverty in Africa. “We have decided today to forge a new partnership to address issues crucial to African development,” the leaders said in the Genoa Plan for Africa, […]
A MINIBUS traveling from the coastal town of Kismayo in Somalia on its way to Mogadishu, 500km to the north, on Wednesday detonated a land mine at Erile near the town of Barawe, after covering just over 200km. This was the fourth such incident in the same area in a week. A local businessman, said […]
A STOLEN 800-year-old Ethiopian cross and a treasured book have been restored to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church after being found in France. The two treasured artefacts were handed over to the priests of their churches at a ceremony on Thursday presided over by the Orthodox patriarch, Abouna Paulos, and attended by Culture Minister Woldemichael Chamo. […]
MUNGO SOGGOT, STEFAANS BRMMER AND DAVID SHAPSHAK Johannesburg | Friday 14.45: ACCORDING to Telkom, its deputy chief operating officer Bheki Langa on Friday resigned from the company. Telkom is therefore dropping its disciplinary enquiry, but will proceed with an investigation into the allegations directed at Langa. Langa contends that he has been looking at other […]