adminProtector assessing complaint on Zuma’s daughter
Johannesburg – Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s office is assessing a complaint about the appointment of President Jacob Zuma’s daughter to a top post in the telecommunications and postal services department,…
Intelligentsia needed to help Africa: Mbeki
Johannesburg – Former president Thabo Mbeki has suggested that African intelligentsia be brought back into crucial processes, as was the case in the 1960s and 70s, to help with the…
SA won’t treat foreigners with Ebola
Johannesburg — South Africa will not treat foreigners who contract the deadly Ebola virus, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said yesterday. “If there is a confirmed diagnosis…
Kenyan leader orders seizure of coastal zone
Kenya’s president has ordered the repossession of land, stretching over 2,000 square kilometres, which he said was taken “under dubious and corrupt circumstances” by 22 companies between 2011 and 2012.…
Sudan ‘apostasy’ woman arrives in US
A Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of a death sentence has arrived in the US, where she was welcomed first by the mayor…
Egypt’s Sisi to skip Obama’s Africa summit
Washington – New Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will not attend an unprecedented gathering of African leaders in the US next week, an official said on Thursday, after he was…
Boy, 3, boiled alive after knock by rickshaw
A three-year-old boy has died after falling into a pot of boiling sugar syrup when a rickshaw crashed into his mother, knocking him out of her arms, in a busy…
Man’s sexual organ reattached after bite by pet mastiff
A man in China has had to have his penis reattached after it was bitten off when his next-door neighbour’s dog lunged at him. The man, only known by his…
Woman left blind in fight over taxi fare
A woman was blinded in one eye after her friend stamped on her face while wearing “lethal” stiletto heels, a court has heard. Melissa Causer, 21, stood on her friend,…
Retired couple strangled over $120
A beloved retired Philadelphia couple was strangled by two men – one they knew for decades – that they hired to do household chores, authorities said Monday. Rufus, 79, and…