A married couple from Tshwane have been arrested after the husband, who was thought to have burnt to death, was arrested driving a stolen car.There are suspicions that the body buried in the husband’s place belongs to the woman’s ex-boyfriend.Police are in the process of having the body exhumed. A …
Read More »Bester Lover Doctor Remains In Custody, Father Gets Bail
“Facebook rapist” and murderer Thabo Bester’s lover, Dr Nandipha Magudumana, was remanded in custody until May 3 while her father Zolile Cornelius Sekeleni was granted R10,000 bail by the Bloemfontein magistrate’s court on Monday. He is expected back at court on May 16. “Facebook rapist” and murderer Thabo Bester’s lover, …
Read More »Singapore Frets Over ‘Unidentified People’ Who Boarded Tanker Off Ivory Coast
A Singapore-registered oil tanker has been boarded by “unidentified persons” about 300 nautical miles (555km) off Ivory Coast in the Gulf of Guinea, the city-state’s port authority said. The Gulf of Guinea was long known as a hotspot for global piracy, with insurance firm Beazley offering the “Gulf of Guinea …
Read More »Cyclone Freddy Death Toll Jumps To Over 1,000 In Malawi: President
The death toll from Cyclone Freddy has risen sharply to more than 1,000 people, Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera said on Wednesday, as the southern African nation continues to recover from one of the deadliest storms to hit the continent in the last two decades. Cyclone Freddy left a trail of …
Read More »Powerful Paramilitary Force Mobilises In Khartoum, Other Cities: Sudan Military
The Sudanese army said on Thursday that a para-military force headed by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo had mobilised troops in the capital Khartoum and other cities – a move that raises the prospect of confrontaion with the armed forces. The army said in a statement that the Rapid Support Forces …
Read More »Heads To Roll As South Africa’s ‘Houdini’ Thabo Bester Returns To SA
If this were the plot of a movie, it would be too far-fetched to be believable. South African authorities have taken over management of a maximum-security prison run by a private British security firm after a high-profile convicted murderer was accused of faking his own death in a fire, then …
Read More »The Cotton Thread: How The Guardian Founders’ Links To Slavery Were Uncovered
The process of uncovering where exactly the founder of the Manchester Guardian, John Edward Taylor, and his associates were importing cotton from was a lengthy and difficult one. At the start, in autumn 2020, I was given the names of the 11 original funders of the Manchester Guardian, and how …
Read More »State Couldn’t Afford Another July 2021 Unrest Says ANC, As It Defends ‘Excessive’ Policing
The ANC has hailed South Africans for rejecting the EFF’s invitation to participate in what it says could have been another July 2021 unrest. The party’s secretary-general Fikile Mbalula believes that it was as a result of South Africans refusing to take part in the protest that the EFF changed …
Read More »Flaws In ZEC Voters’ Roll Could Derail Zimbabwe Elections
Zimbabwe will hold harmonised elections in four months even though the country’s electoral commission (ZEC) has not released an electronic voters’ roll for scrutiny despite several court challenges. The ZEC’s actions are contrary to the country’s constitution in Section 21 (1), which stipulates that ‘every voters’ roll and every consolidated …
Read More »Odinga Tear Gassed In Kenyan Protests Against Ruto
Kenyan police tear gassed the leader of the opposition on Monday and arrested senior lawmakers in his parliamentary faction, as protesters took to the streets to march against President William Ruto and the high cost of living. The convoy of Raila Odinga, who was defeated by Ruto last year in …
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