After waiting in long lines around the country over the past two days to vote, Nigerians are engaged in another long wait—to find out who will lead their country for the next four years. Both incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan and challenger retired general Muhammadu Buhari claim early leads. Millions of people waited patiently to cast
Read more: With votes in, dangerous part of Nigerian elections begins
Mercedes-Benz plans to enter the mid-sized bakkie, or pick-up, market as South Africa is regarded as one of its key markets, along with Latin America, Australia and Europe. Mercedes-Benz sees strong sales potential in this one-ton segment and the new entrant will be positioned at the premium end of the Hilux/Ranger/Amarok, and developed by the
Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor will be acting president until Tuesday while Jacob Zuma is away on a working trip this week, the presidency said. Zuma was travelling to Algeria to meet President Abdelaziz Bouteflika for a South Africa-Algeria binational commission meeting, spokesman Mac Maharaj said on Monday. Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa was in
Christine Negroni is an aviation journalist and safety specialist who is writing a book on aviation mysteries to be published by Penguin in 2016. Negroni says the evidence so far shows first officer Andreas Lubitz deliberately flew the plane to a lower altitude. We know also that the plane wound up crashing into a mountain.
An Oscar-nominated film will still be released in the UK despite its disturbing similarities to the Alps air disaster. Argentinian film Wild Tales features a mass killer who locks himself in the cockpit of a passenger jet and crashes it in to the ground to murder everyone on board. In terrifying scenes the fictional passengers
Read more: Air disaster movie opens with similar plot to Germanwings
A woman raised by two lesbians has provoked controversy after publicly announcing that she is against gay marriage because she says she missed out on having her father in her life when growing up. Heather Barwick, a 31-year-old mother-of-four from South Carolina, says her mother left her father when she was 2 or 3 so
Potential 2016 presidential candidate Rick Santorum was questioned on missing nuclear warheads at a national security summit in South Carolina this week reports media outlet Bloomberg. According to the report, a woman in the crowd brought the issue up to Santorum in a fiery rant against President Obama and his national security policy. “Obama tried
The Democratic Alliance wants to change the names of schools named after Afrikaner public figures in the past in the province it is currently ruling, the Western Cape. According to IOL, “This announcement was made by Education MEC Debbie Schäfer during her 2015/16 education budget vote speech on Thursday, and comes at a time when
Read more: DA wants to scrap Afrikaner school names in Western Cape
Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi left his refuge in Aden for Saudi Arabia on Thursday as Houthi rebels battled with his forces on the outskirts of the southern port city. Throughout the day, warplanes from Saudi Arabia and Arab allies struck at the Shi’ite Houthis and allied army units, who have taken over much of
Read more: Yemeni leader flees while Saudi Arabia continues with air strikes
You know just how scholarly a policy paper is when it is studded with a clichéd expression like “we need to have a conversation about …” The pop-phrase is familiar from these farcical usages: “We need to have a conversation about race”—when, in reality, we do nothing but subject ourselves to a one-way browbeating about
Read more: The ‘We need to have a race conversation’ malarkey
The co-pilot named in the Germanwings plane crash was Andreas Guenter Lubitz. The 28-year-old was from Montabaur, a town in the district seat of the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, according to a local flight club. Acquaintances said he was in his late 20s and showed no signs of depression when they saw him last autumn.
The aggressive rejection of British colonialism as in the Rhodes statue debacle is only surprising in that it has taken so long to appear. While Verwoerd was vilified for his mild phrase on separate but equal education, Rhodes’s money, talking from the grave, ensured that his far more radical, biological views on the superiority of
Read more: Rhodes statue debacle demonstrates South African extremism
A massive escalation of the tribal conflict in Yemen has brought the region closer to an all-out war. The Shi’ite Houthi rebels have ousted the sitting president and control large parts of the country, a move that riled Saudi-Arabia. Airstrikes by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, supported by Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Pakistan, Jordan Saudi-Arabia
Read more: Saudi Arabia launches military operation in Yemen
French President François Hollande said the contents of a second black box found on Wednesday were missing as investigators managed to extract audio recordings from the first flight recorder recovered from Germanwings flight 4U9525. French investigators say they have succeeded in extracting “usable data”, including sound and voices, from the first black box recovered from
Read more: French president declares contents of second black box missing
