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An 86-year-old nun gang-raped and murdered in South Africa

An 86-year-old nun gang-raped and murdered in South Africa

An 86-year-old nun has been gang-raped and murdered by robbers for a small amount of money in South Africa.Police said Sister Gertrud Tiefenbacher was found dead by another nun at the Sacred Heart Home, in the eastern town of Ixopo. The Austrian had been killed in her bedroom after being gagged, tied up with a […]

700 people dead after a boat packed with migrants capsized off the Libyan coast

700 people dead after a boat packed with migrants capsized off the Libyan coast

As many as 700 people were feared dead after a fishing boat packed with migrants capsized off the Libyan coast overnight in what officials said may be the Mediterranean’s worst disaster as thousands flee poverty and war to Europe. Top officials in Europe, whose recently-downsized border protection program has been criticized by international aid groups, […]

A man brags about raping a passed out female contestant on Big Brother

A man brags about raping a passed out female contestant on Big Brother

Pay TV-broadcaster M-Net remained silent on Wednesday as a growing rape scandal swirled around its tawdry Big Brother Mzansi reality show in which a male contestant bragged that he “dipped” a passed out female housemate. Production company Endemol South Africa booted the male contestant and also removed the female housemate “for her well-being” from the […]

Xenophobia repercussions affect Sasol in Mozambique

Xenophobia repercussions affect Sasol in Mozambique

President Jacob Zuma on Thursday condemned the attacks on foreign nationals and urged communities to assist police in bringing perpetrators to justice. Zuma’s intervention in Parliament comes as xenophobic violence spreads from troubled communities in KwaZulu-Natal to residential areas in Gauteng. His call also comes as repercussions of the violence spilled across borders on Thursday‚ […]

Three men given 15-year jail terms for gang-raping a teenage girl in Kenya

Three men given 15-year jail terms for gang-raping a teenage girl in Kenya

Three men convicted of gang-raping a teenage girl in Kenya and dumping her in a pit latrine have each received 15-year jail terms. Reports that the rapists were ordered by police to cut grass as a punishment caused global outrage last year. The Kenyan police deny the claims. Nearly two million people signed a petition […]

Angola could become a mining powerhouse

Angola could become a mining powerhouse

The government of Angola wants the country to become a mining powerhouse in Africa in order to attract more private investments that contribute to the diversification of the economy, said Friday in Luanda the minister of Geology and Mining. Francisco Queiroz, who was speaking during a debate on the impact of investment in the mining […]

Brunei, Sharia law in 10 years, Aceh may offer some hints

Brunei, Sharia law in 10 years, Aceh may offer some hints

Brunei versus Aceh: the divine struggle to be ASEAN holiest? – Brunei 2015 may be a precursor to Aceh 2005 – Both working towards implementing Sharia on non-Muslims – Both seek to be the role models for Southeast Asia in religious achievements A new kind of competition appears to surface between the Sultanate of Brunei […]

Armando Guebuza resignes as President of Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo Party

Armando Guebuza resignes  as President of Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo Party

Armando Guebuza resigned as President of Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo Party shortly after 11.00 on Sunday morning, on the final day of a meeting of the Frelimo Central Committee. Frelimo spokesperson Damiao Jose, the Central Committee Secretary for Mobilisation and Propaganda, told reporters that Guebuza’s announcement “took the members of the Central Committee by surprise”. Nonetheless, […]

Zimbabwean Sex Workers Switch to Mobile Payment Systems

Zimbabwean Sex Workers Switch to Mobile Payment Systems

Sex workers in Harare are now demanding that clients pay for services through mobile platforms to avoid being duped with most now moving around with at least two mobile phones to facilitate transactions. Mobile payment technology was introduced as Zimbabwe struggled with liquidity after ditching the local dollar for foreign currencies in 2009 with the […]

Australian ex tennis player Bob Hewitt found guilty of raping & assaulting young girls in South Africa

Australian ex tennis player Bob Hewitt found guilty of raping  & assaulting young girls in South Africa

Australian-born former tennis Grand Slam champion Bob Hewitt was found guilty Monday in South Africa of raping and assaulting young girls whom he was coaching in the early 1980s. Hewitt, 75, had pleaded not guilty to the two charges of rape and one of indecent assault, which were brought against him by three women in […]

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