A burglar who broke into an office in Portugal last week, making off with a portable safe that contained just €10 (about R79), returned over the weekend to leave a note apologising for the theft, the Lusa news agency reported on Sunday. The envelope with the note was slipped into the mailbox of the office.
About 1 000 pupils — somewhat short of the 100 000 promised by the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) — marched through central Cape Town on Tuesday to protest violence at schools. The march went off without incident, despite an earlier police warning to shopkeepers and vendors.
Lions at a safari park in the north of England are prowling after Smart cars, in the apparent belief that the boxy little two-seat European city cars are worthy prey. Visitors to Knowsley Safari Park in Smart cars have discovered that the lions are paying them particular interest.
A torrent of expletives greeted the man accused of being the Station Strangler when he arrived at the Mitchells Plain Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday for an inquest into the deaths of three boys. Norman Afzal Simons, then a 27-year-old teacher, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for only one killing.
Wits University has been embroiled in a race and transformation row since the appointment of a ‘white American male’ as the dean of the humanities faculty. The Mail & Guardian spoke to the protagonists to get to the bottom of the matter, Wendy Orr, director of the transformation equity unit, and Wits university vice-chancellor Loyiso Nongxa.
The Pafuri-Banyini pan in South Africa’s north-eastern Kruger National Park teems with game. Elephant bulls amble among clumps of marula trees and impala leap gracefully across the grassland, where buffalo graze. Located in the triangle between the Limpopo and Luvuvhu rivers where South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique meet, the pan is more than an idyllic corner of the Kruger park.
One in every five ambulances will in future be dedicated for people in life threatening emergencies, the Gauteng health department said on Tuesday. This decision was taken on Monday at a meeting of health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa and councillors responsible for health in the province, said spokesperson Simon Zwane.
An international press freedom watchdog on Tuesday decried a sedition charge brought against a Ugandan journalist for his comments about the death of Sudanese vice president and ex-rebel leader John Garang. The Committee to Protect Journalists said the charge against reporter Andrew Mwenda is a blow to the independent media in Uganda.
A total of 36 000 jobs were created during the 2004/5 financial year through the Development Bank of Southern Africa’s investment projects, the bank said on Tuesday. The new number of jobs created through funded projects was a 45% increase against the same reporting period in the last year, DBSA managing director Mandla Gantsho said.
A boat carrying 102 people capsized in northeastern Nigeria with all passengers feared dead, national media reported on Tuesday. Recent heavy rains have caused flooding and swollen rivers in most parts of the populous West African nation.