What makes South Africa so special
The ANC has defended using taxpayers’ money to provide Jacob Zuma with a 33-car motorcade for electioneering in Limpopo last week.
According to a spokesman Zuma required 28 cars for his wives, one for himself, one for Jesus Christ in case He returned as Zuma has been promising, and three for his elephant guns, leopard skins [...]
Confusing times ahead for GPS users.
Here’s something we hadn’t considered. What will soccer tourists do for the 2010 world cup when their maps or GPSes are wrong and they get lost?
It is all very well warning them to stay out of crime hotspots but if those areas are known by another name by [...]
Muti is a Zulu term for black traditional medicine. In southern Africa, muti is sometimes associated with murder and mutilation in order to excise body parts for incorporation as ingredients into medicine and concoctions used in witchcraft.
Often children and the elderly are the victims, both male and female.
An individual or [...]
The explosion ripped through the cash van, peeled off its roof and reverberated through a residential neighbourhood 800m away.
The robbers used four separate sets of explosives – possibly dynamite – and despite the earth-shattering blasts, they still couldn’t get to the money.
Several minutes after they stopped traffic on the busy N3 highway in Ekurhuleni (Edenvale), [...]