A Malawian family is searching for a witchdoctor who advised their 26-year-old son to have sex with his mother if he wanted to be a successful businessman. The son, James Mushango, went mad after he failed to carry out the witchdoctor’s instructions. Mushango, a small-scale businessman who bought fish in Mangochi and sold them in […]

SIZWE SAMAYENDE, Nelspruit | Monday MPUMALANGA’s international safari parks are under threat following an order that they shoot all lions and other game infected by tuberculosis. The private 15_000 hectare Ligwalagwala Conservancy near Malelane has already been forced to kill 12 infected lions and claims to have lost 80% of its tourists as a result. […]

A NIGERIAN traditional chief, his wife and four others have become the first to be charged under a new law against sex trafficking, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Chief Saka Omo-Lawal Osula, a prominent chief in Benin City, appeared in court last Tuesday alongside his wife and the four others, the newspaper National Interest said. […]

AN Egyptian court on Sunday ordered the retrial of 31 businessmen and politicians who were given jail sentences last year in the biggest corruption scandal in two decades. The cessation court annulled the sentences linked to $470m dollars in fraudulent loans after defence lawyers argued that police had pursued their clients without Central Bank approval, […]

THE managing editor of a newspaper in Congo has been arrested over an article calling for the overthrow of “the dictator” Denis Sassou Nguesso, police said late Saturday. Publication of Richard Ntsana’s Flambeau newspaper was also suspended on Saturday as Ntsana was taken to the central police station in Brazzaville for a “hearing,” police said […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday CAPE Towns Anglican Church Archbishop, the Reverend Njongonkulu Ndungane, has spoken out against a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) plan to get big business to contribute to a fund for victims of apartheid, saying it was governments responsibility. Ndungane was reacting to a statement by TRC compensation and rehabilitation […]

TWO pet chimpanzees from the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo were transferred to the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia on Sunday because of fears that their owner would not be able to care for them. Brenda Santon from Friends of the Chimpanzee in South Africa said Sinki, a seven-year-old male, and Kambo, a five-year-old female, […]

CAPE Verde’s opposition African Independence Party (PAICV) claimed victory at Sunday’s general election, but the early official results showed a race too close to call after a day marked mainly by chaos. “According to the data we have received, we are already certain of victory,” PAICV campaign director Adao Richa said. With the vote count […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday A REPORT warning that Aids would become the leading cause of death among teachers this year was deeply flawed and based on questionable assumptions, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Sunday. Speaking on the SABC programme Newsmaker, Asmal said the report was not a department document, and that he rejected […]

OWN CORRESPONDENTS, Johannesburg | Monday THE ANC has lashed out at Heath Special Investigating Unit head Willem Heath for “being in cahoots with opposition parties”, and says it will oppose his appointment to probe the states R43bn arms deal. While there will be more clarity today regarding Heath’s involvement or not in the arms deal […]