Zimbabwe State Security Minister Didymus Mutasa on Tuesday ratcheted up pressure against the opposition, threatening to "use guns" to thwart anti-government protests and warning opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai he will pay with his life if he called such protests.
It is an ”objectively determinable factual reality” that beans make you fart, according to the Advertising Standards Authority. It made the ruling in rejecting a complaint by the Dry Bean Producers Organisation against a television commercial for Wildeklawer Sweet Onions.
Rescuers said on Tuesday that they believed they would find no more survivors after an overloaded boat carrying some 150 people sank on a Ghana lake over the weekend, and were now turning to the grim task of recovering bodies — perhaps as many as 100.
A seemingly minor affair involving a Rwandan diplomat and the wife of a Ugandan businessman has reignited tensions between the feuding neighbours with the Rwandan government expelling a Ugandan diplomat and accusing Kampala of harbouring Rwandan dissidents.
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor’s interim defence lawyer is in Sierra Leone to challenge attempts to move the warlord’s trial to The Hague, sources close to Taylor said on Tuesday. Karim Khan filed an urgent application to the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone to ask that no decision be made on the trial venue until the defence is allowed to comment on the issue.
In just under 30 months, Chad has become a typical oil-producing, African country, with allegations of rampant corruption, an ongoing fight with the World Bank and a burgeoning rebellion along the eastern border while the population remains dirt poor. Chad was praised by many as having a model oil programme when the Central African country began exporting oil in October 2003.
The South African rand is no longer at the mercy of hot money flowing in and out of the country at the whim of short-term investors, Business Report said on Tuesday. It said global investors had started taking a long-term view of the country’s prospects.
Two Eastern Cape traditional kings have damaged the brand-new luxury German cars the provincial government gave them last month, Dispatch Online reported on Tuesday. The vehicles belonged to King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo of AbaThembu BakaDalindyebo and King Zwelonke Sigcawu of AmaGcaleka.
The love for soccer of the 43 people killed in a stampede at Ellis Park Stadium five years ago would always be remembered, Orlando Pirates chairperson Irvin Khoza told their families on Tuesday. They had given true meaning to the word support, added Kaizer Chiefs head Kaizer Motaung.
Oil prices breached $69 a barrel in Asian trading on Tuesday on concerns of a possible United States military strike against Iran, dealers said. At 12.43pm New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for May delivery was at $69,01 a barrel, up 27 cents from its close of $68,74 in the United States on Monday.