TWO Egyptian ministers are at loggerheads over a proposal by one of them to introduce sex education into the school curriculum, government weekly Akhbar al-Yom reported on Saturday. Culture Minister Faruq Hosni recently proposed to the parliament’s culture committee that sex education be introduced in the schools, but Education Minister Hussein Kamal Bahaeddin objected, it […]

EGYPTIAN customs on Friday foiled an attempt to smuggle in 800 tablets of the male impotence treatment Viagra through Cairo airport, a source said. Egyptian customs foiled an attempt to smuggle in 10_000 Viagra tablets in January at Cairo airport. The Egyptian health ministry authorised the sale of Viagra on prescription in January, after banning […]

FLIPPIE van Rooyen, the son of dead paedophile Gert van Rooyen, has been found guilty on one charge of perjury in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court. Van Rooyen was charged with three counts of perjury after he allegedly gave police conflicting statements under oath relating to six missing schoolgirls linked to his father in the late […]

TWO people are feared dead ater a South African helicopter crashed in Mfuwe National Park in eastern Zambia. Police said rescuers had not been able to reach the wreckage because of heavy rains and the difficult terrain. Two helicopters rushed to the scene could not land. “Our officers will try to get there Friday, depending […]

A NUDIST resort in KwaZulu-Natal must admit blacks or face legal action by the South African Human Rights Commission, The Star newspaper reported. The commission has given Jane’s Jungle seven days to abide by the country’s constitution and admit blacks or face a lawsuit, it said. South African naturist pioneer Beau Brummel opened Jane’s Jungle, […]

AN Mpumalanga businessman and an unemployed man accused of child sex will remain in custody for the duration of their trial. Security company owner and auctioneer Daniel Francois Botha, 57, and his friend Andries Johannes van der Mescht, 37, spent three days trying to convince the Belfast Magistrates Court to grant them bail. Their co-accused, […]

KWAZULU-Natal Wildlife media liaison officer Jeff Gaisford has been suspended for talking to the media about planned retrenchments in the organisation during negotiations. KwaZulu-Natal agriculture and environmental affairs MEC Narend Singh earlier this week announced that about 600 KZN Wildlife employees would be retrenched because of financial constraints. The Natal Witness on Friday reported that […]

A FIRE that raged from Thursday to Friday near Cape Town destroyed 18 buildings, officials said. It was brought under control Friday afternoon after firefighters from five stations in Cape Town were called in, said Cape Town Disaster Management Centre representative John Brown. He said about 160 firefighters and police were dousing the remnants of […]

RWANDA will not leave the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) until Hutu extremists fighting there are disarmed, Foreign Minister Louis Michel said on Friday after talks with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Michel said Kagame explained Rwanda’s involvement in the DRC conflict by saying he only wanted to secure Rwanda’s borders, but Kigali has long been […]