The Farrelley brothers’ new filthfest Me, Myself and Irene opened last week. John Patterson hails its lavatorial lineage.
EGYPTIAN women are looking for more and more ingenious “anti-lecher weapons” to ward off bottom-pinchers and arm-strokers in Cairo’s buses and cinemas, the weekly Al-Ahram Hebdo has reported. Marwa, a 22-year-old student, told the paper she had to threaten to hit a man with one of her shoes before he stopped pressing himself against her […]
AN 11-year-old American boy was attacked and killed last month by a hyena while he was sleeping in a tent during a safari in Botswana’s Moremi Game Reserve, a tour operator has told a local news agency. Reports yesterday named the boy as Mark Garrat Shea, from Baltimore. Bridget Hedges, a spokesperson for Botswana tour […]
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has suspended the listing of retailer Q Mart Holdings Ltd’s ordinary shares at the request of its directors. – Reuters 09
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday EUGENE Terre’Blanche, the firebrand leader of the far-right Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) who was jailed six months ago for assaulting a black man, is likely to be freed on bail as early as Monday. Terre’Blanche was granted bail of R5000 rand by a Pretoria High Court judge on Thursday pending […]
TWO KwaZulu-Natal policemen arrested on Wednesday night in connection with the death of ANC MP Bheki Mkhize have appeared in the Empangeni Regional Court. Captain Zeblon Dlamini, 39, and Sergeant Phiwa Nkosi Magwaza, 39, appeared on Thursday, charged with murder. Dlamini was also charged with defeating the ends of justice — according to provincial Independent […]
THE chairman of African Gem Resources Ltd (Afgem) said uncommitted shareholders were responsible for the steep fall in the group’s share on its debut on the Johannesburg bourse, but was confident its price would firm. The share opened at 400 cents but fell to a low of 245 cents. ”It looks like we have a […]
GERMAN sex products firm Condomi AG said it had won a bulk order for 28.8 million condoms for the land-locked African country, Burkina Faso. Condomi said the contract was the largest order it had ever received. Deliveries to the west African country start in October and will run for 13 months. – Reuters 08
POLICE will today continue the search for the missing babies born out of an alleged incestuous relationship between Delmas brother and sister Heibrecht and Robert Fedder, after finding nothing on the farm Witklipbank near Delmas yesterday. The excavations at two sites on the farm formed part of the investigations in the case, in which police […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT AND REUTERS, Windhoek | Tuesday SOUTHERN African leaders have come out strongly in support of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s controversial land reform program, saying Britain should “honour its obligations” and provide resources for land reform in the embattled country. Ending two-day talks on the region’s simmering conflicts and tepid economic growth, the leaders […]