Everyone reaches a time in their life when they have to get rid of the clutter. For most of us, this could mean anything from family heirlooms to unnecessary personal complications. For Depeche Mode, this means the excess baggage of a 20-year journey from squeaky Basildon electro-poppers to stadium art-rockers who have trotted the globe and almost killed themselves in the process.<
AN Islamic court in northern Nigeria has sentenced a woman to 100 lashes for having sex with a man to whom she was not married, The Comet newspaper reported on Sunday. It said 20-year-old Amina Abdullahi was convicted on Friday by the Sharia court in Gusau, capital of Zamfara state, after confessing to sleeping with […]
A SISTER-in-law of Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd, who is frequently in legal trouble in Egypt, was acquitted of charges she spent the salaries of around 50 of her employees, legal sources said on Sunday. A Cairo misdemeanours court found Princess Hind al-Fassi and her nephew Mohammed al-Fassi innocent on Saturday because the plaintiffs had no […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Monday THE Land Bank will auction disgraced former South African ambassador Mangisi Zitha’s palatial home and farm on Friday after the flamboyant politician failed to honour loans with the bank. The humiliating public auction comes just weeks after Zitha was arrested in a police sting operation at Sun City for allegedly […]
BUSINESSMAN Delma Lupepe, has undertaken to spruce up the neglected Bulawayo provincial heroes’ acre at a cost of $3,6-million following repeated complaints by families whose relatives are buried there, over its dilapidated state. Construction work is said to be underway. During Saturday’s commemoration of Heroes’ Day, Lupepe hired four tents, a public address system, security […]
PRO-DEMOCRACY groups in Swaziland on Saturday rejected a commission’s conclusion that the country’s citizens were in favour of extending the already sweeping powers of King Mswati III. Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions (SFTU) secretary general Jan Sithole said a report by the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) — which spent four years canvassing people on changes […]
A 70-YEAR-old man Tanzanian man has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of cultivating and selling cannabis, a government official said on Sunday. Mareremba Machafu of the northern Kagera region began his term in jail on Friday following his conviction and failure to raise a one million shilling ($1 220) fine, […]
ZIMBABWE will late this month introduce a Z$500 banknote (worth about $9) due to rising inflation which has eroded the value of the currency, the central bank chief said on Friday. The largest denomination note available so far had been a Z$100 note, which was introduced in 1995. “In view of rising inflation, the Z$500 […]
A LEADING Mozambican banker was found dead outside his office in the capital Maputo in a suspected murder case, police said on Sunday. The body of Antonio Siba Siba, chairman of Mozambique’s largest commercial bank Banco Austral, was found late on Saturday after apparently after falling six floors. He either fell or was pushed, police […]
ZENZELE KUHLASE, Nelspruit | Monday THE only thing that protects a traumatised eight-year-old Mpumalanga girl from the man who apparently raped and brutalised her, is her mother’s wicked looking panga. The child was raped so violently that she can no longer control her bladder or bowl movements, and is terrified of all men – including […]