Black-clad riot police fired tear gas and beat demonstrators with batons as thousands protested delays to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s first postwar
presidential elections. The United Nations said at least six died in violence nationwide.
King Mayitjha III of the Ndebele nation died on Thursday night, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported early on Friday. The Nzunza/Mabhoko royal house spokesperson, Chief John Mahlangu, said the king had attended the Nhlapo Commission on traditional leadership in KwaMhlanga earlier in the day.
There was much ululating as President Thabo Mbeki and former deputy president Jacob Zuma entered this week’s gathering of the African National Congress’s policy conference. One was the overall leader of the country as well as the party while the other had fallen from political grace after being ”released” as the country’s deputy president by Mbeki before a joint sitting of Parliament.
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Jacob Zuma will be in breach of his bail conditions if he consults with former judge Willem Heath, media reports said on Friday. Heath’s name was apparently added to prosecutor Anton Steynberg’s comprehensive list of state witnesses late on Wednesday. Heath is former head of the Special Investigating Unit.
Adventure motorcycles have a lot going for them. They’re more comfortable for two-up touring than superbikes or cruisers are, and they open up a whole new network of gravel backroads taking you to fascinating places that you’d never ordinarily know about.
There’s an angry crackle from the 10 cylinders up front as I push down on the accelerator. In just 66 milliseconds, the Sequential M gearbox (SMG) hooks fourth gear. BMW’s fourth-generation M5 was launched to the media three weeks ago at the Phakisa race track in Welkom, and sensibly so.
A simpler design meant to evoke New York’s classic skyscrapers was on Thursday unveiled for the Freedom Tower, the signature building planned to rise from the site of the World Trade Centre, destroyed in the terrorist attacks of 2001. The latest version of the tower will be sturdier than the two previous designs, set on an impregnable concrete and steel pedestal.
When it comes to churning out hits, most musicians stick to the same recipe that gave them sweet success the first time around. If a rapper’s shoot-em-up tales sold eight million albums, there’ll be more on the follow-up. If a starlet’s skimpy outfits and booty-shaking lured fans to the record stores five million times, count on similar apparel and moves the next time.
South African teachers are being lured to Britain by unscrupulous British recruitment agencies, a post-graduate dissertation for the IMM Graduate School of Marketing suggests. ”The vast majority of British recruitment companies recruiting in South Africa are guilty of gross unethical misconduct,” said the researcher, Guy Mulvaney.
The final immigration regulations coming into effect on Friday will help remove the problem of fraudulent marriages, the Department of Home Affairs said on Thursday. A foreigner wanting to obtain permanent residence by marrying a South African citizen should have a marriage in good faith for at least five years before the status was granted to them.