A Northern Cape man lost part of his tongue when he tried to grab and kiss a woman in Galeshewe in Kimberley, Northern Cape police said on Tuesday. A police spokesperson said the incident happened on Sunday when the man tried to overpower a woman at her house in Tidimalo Street in Club 2000 in Galeshewe.
Hurricane Emily on Tuesday was expected to strengthen as it headed towards Texas or Mexico over the warm Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, more than a million people fled their homes along China’s south-eastern coast as Typhoon Haitang slammed into the mainland on Tuesday.
Unless a baby is born head first and face upwards, many communities in northern Benin believe the child is a witch or sorcerer. And tradition demands that the infant must be killed, sometimes by dashing its brains out against a tree trunk. If the parents are compassionate, the baby is simply abandoned to die in the bush.
Former United States president Bill Clinton received a superstar’s welcome when he addressed a group of young community volunteers at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, on Tuesday. Clinton is on a six-country tour of Southern African projects in which the Clinton Foundation is involved.
The Zimbabwean government has again refused to license one of the country’s only independent daily newspapers, which has been banned from publishing for more than two years, the state-owned Herald newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The trial opens in Brazzaville on Tuesday of 16 people accused of slaughtering dozens of President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s opponents in the explosive case of the ”beach missing”. The trial of those charged with the killing of people who disappeared after returning from exile in 1999 marks the last chapter in a political and legal saga that has touched both Congo and France.
North Korea will resume international nuclear arms talks in Beijing next week after a gap of more than a year, the South Korean foreign ministry announced on Tuesday. The talks have been stalled since the communist North walked out of the previous round of negotiations last June, accusing the United States of ”hostility” and ”insincerity”.
Indonesian navy divers have found 74 bodies inside a ferry that sank off eastern Papua province nearly two weeks ago and many more were still believed to be trapped inside, a rescue official said on Tuesday. Bad weather had hampered the search for more than 100 people believed to have been trapped inside the ferry when it sank in rough seas on July 7, the official said.
Despite slow progress, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan believes it is possible to achieve the organisation’s Millennium Development Goals by 2015 through cooperation, former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano said on Tuesday. ”What is needed is for us to work together,” Chissano said.
The Durban health department intends taking Engen to court after sulphur-dioxide emissions at its Durban oil refinery were found to be ”excessive”. The oil refinery exceeded its sulphur-dioxide emissions 64 times in just more than a month, according to a World Health Organisation report.