Food stalls attached to Beijing’s public toilets will be removed in good time for next year’s Olympics, state media said on Saturday. Complaints over toilets with poor sanitation and toilet operators turning them into commercial operations led to the ban, which comes into force in October.
The PSL’s once-feared Kaizer Chiefs on Tuesday listed six frontline squad members for transfer in a bid to halt a losing streak that got under way last season. Players placed on the transfer list include erstwhile club heroes Emmanuel ”Scara” Ngobese, Patrick Mayo, Gert Schalkwyk, David Radebe, Siphiwe Mkhonza and Serge Djiehoua.
The next object of liberation in South Africa must be the national economy, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Tuesday. ”Our people have been given political rights, but they still lack the freedom to participate fully in the market economy,” he said in an online letter.
The mayor of Mpumalanga’s Govan Mbeki municipality is expected to appear in court on Friday on charges of killing his deputy, police said. Sipho Nkosi will appear in the Evander Magistrate’s Court charged with Thandi Mtsweni’s murder, said Superintendent Sibongile Nkosi on Wednesday.
South African musician Hugh Masekela believes he is no longer welcome as a performer in South Africa, the Times Online reported on Wednesday. The trumpeter said that many talented musicians whose voices became symbols of protest against white domination found it hard to get bookings in South Africa.
Thousands of Zimbabwean commuters were on Tuesday stranded throughout the country as fuel shortages reached crisis proportions, state media reported. People in Harare are spending up to four days looking for buses to take them to rural villages ahead of a public holiday next week, ZBC radio said.
Sudan will allow Darfur rebel figure Suleiman Jamous to be moved without risk of arrest if the international community guarantees he will not rejoin armed rebels in Darfur. Jamous, a rebel Sudan Liberation Army Humanitarian coordinator has been virtually imprisoned for more than 13 months.
Thomas Siebert shifts uncomfortably on the wooden court bench and flinches occasionally at the testimony of the man who sodomised and then strangled his six-year-old son to death 18 months ago. He tries to avoid staring at the 48-year-old killer, Theunis Olivier, instead peering around the courtroom and making occasional notes.
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) said it would ensure that Deputy Health Minister Nosizwe Madlala-Routledge repaid the public funds she used for an unauthorised overseas trip, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Wednesday.
Frida Kahlo, Lee Krasner, Eva Hesse, Käthe Kollwitz and Gertrude Stein have all infiltrated or raided an art gallery or festival around the world to promote women and minorities — or, at least, their alter egos, the Guerrilla Girls, have. This is a group of anonymous women who assume the identities of dead female artists and appear in public wearing gorilla masks.