A man was arrested on bestiality charges after he was found raping his neighbour’s goat at a village in Limpopo on Sunday morning. Police spokesperson Inspector Ntobeng Phala said the owner of the goat heard the animal crying from the kraal at Zist Village, Ga-Maleboho, about 200km northwest of Polokwane.
It will take a hundred years to transfer 30% of agricultural land to black farmers at the current rate, South African Communist Party leader Blade Nzimande said on Monday. He said joint action was needed to accelerate the land reform process if the 30% target was to be reached within the next ten years.
A working dog so faithful that he spent almost a week with his dead owner’s body will be put down and buried with his master, animal welfare group RSPCA said on Monday. ”Euthanasing him is the best thing to do,” said RSPCA Queensland spokesperson Michael Beatty.
Britain named the country’s first black Cabinet minister as its next ambassador to South Africa on Monday. Paul Boateng, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, will quit the government after the next national election to take up the diplomatic post in Pretoria, the Treasury said in a statement.
A boy aged two was shot in the head by his four-year-old brother after a squabble over a toy and a churchgoer opened fire on fellow worshippers, killing seven of them, in a weekend of gun violence across the United States. Police said the two boys had been squabbling in their Houston home when the younger child threw a toy at his brother.
A Turkish man managed to get the pension of his mother for two years after her death, posing as an elderly woman to the local bank and neighbours, the mass-circulation <i>Sabah</i> newspaper reported on Saturday. He was caught only after he forgot to change his voice in response to a question by a bank clerk.
For North Carolina-based football fan Chris Barrett, the trip to the United Kingdom to watch his favourite team in action was a long-cherished dream, after years of saving money. If only the match had not been cancelled. Barrett, a 36-year-old United States schoolteacher, was putting a brave face on the disappointment on Saturday.
The yellow spice turmeric has shown potential as a weapon against malaria, HIV and the virus that triggers cervical cancer, according to reports on <i>SciDev.Net</i>, the Science and Development Network website. The latest findings are of significance to developing countries where malaria and HIV are serious public health concerns.
A student picked up one of many unexploded munitions littering Somalia on Sunday, setting off a blast that killed four boys and injured six others, witnesses said. The dead were aged between 10 and 16. The injured lost limbs or suffered abdominal wounds in the explosion at Sabiid, a village in the central Somali region of Mudug.
It was a case of third time unlucky for a hapless but determined Bosnian thief who was arrested three times on the same day for three different crimes, a report said. The 44-year-old was first caught breaking into a car on Saturday and taken to a police station in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza.