American reality TV star, Kim Kardashian, has denied tweeting hate words about Nigeria and her women. A “photoshopped” image of a parody twitter handle had shown how Kardashian tweeted about Nigeria being such a disgusting country with women who look like apes. “I see there is a photo shopped tweet floating around, supposedly something I
Read more: Kim Kardashian denies racist tweet about Nigerians
After four days of counting and recounting votes, Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner of Kenya’s presidential election. This is not what the British government had been hoping for. The failed attempt by the UK to warn people off voting for Kenyatta has changed the former colonial power’s standing in Kenya, both with its leaders
A war of words has broken out between admirers of voluptuous female figures and those who plump for a more streamlined, traditionally Western, shape. “African” curves or an “international” silhouette? On the airwaves and the catwalks of Côte d’Ivoire, a war of words has broken out between admirers of voluptuous female figures and those who
Why are South African Indians concerned about equal rights in this country, but seem to care little about an evil system back home? In a uniquely Indian version of Romeo and Juliette, a teenage girl and boy were publicly lynched earlier this month in rural Uttar Pradesh. The girl’s parents and hundreds of villagers watched
China and Brazil agreed to trade in each other’s currencies just hours ahead of the BRICS summit in South Africa. The deal, which extends over a three-year period and amounts to an exchange of about $30 billion in trade per year, marks the latest effort among two of the world’s largest emerging economies to shift
The Russian-South African talks on the sidelines of the BRICS summit produced a wide range of agreements, including a joint declaration on strategic partnership, cooperation in communications and joint construction of nuclear power plants. Russia is ready to provide credit support for South Africa to build nuclear power plants using Russian specialists. Development of cooperation
Read more: Russia seals energy, military cooperation with South Africa
Four concrete deliverables are expected at the 5th BRICS Summit at Durban March 26-26, 2013, that will take the process of the five-nation bloc forward to the next level, Indian officials said on Monday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who arrived here on Monday evening, will join the leaders from Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa
Andile Mngxitama has called for violence to be inflicted on a white journalist on social media. Mngxitama, who holds an MA in Sociology from Wits, works at the Foundation for Human Rights as a policy advisor. The foundation’s director, Yasmin Sooka, hastily promised that the foundation did not condone violence or the incitement to violence
President H. Patrick Swygert, President of Howard University; Mr. Frank Savage, Chairperson, Alliance Capital; Dr Joseph Harris, Committee Chairperson. Ladies and Gentlemen. It is an honour for me to receive the Doctor of Laws Degree from Howard University. This honour is not for me alone, but it is also a recognition of the people of
Read more: Thabo Mbeki’s speech at Howard University, Washington on 23 May 2000
South Africans should brace themselves for what could be the most difficult winter as electricity supply remained constrained, the Public Enterprise Minister Malusi Gigaba said. “We need to worry about how we are going to go through this winter,” Gigaba said. He was speaking to residents in Kliptown, Soweto where he was encouraging community members
CHICAGO (AP) — Tens of thousands of Chicago students, parents and teachers learned Thursday their schools were on a long-feared list of 54 the city plans to close in an effort to stabilize an educational system facing a huge budget shortfall. Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the closures are necessary because too many Chicago Public School
From the air, it’s easier to spot wealth than poverty. Climbing out of Cape Town International Airport the informal settlements soon become a blur but the private developments remain in crisp focus, their pristine loops of asphalt standing out like Nazca lines, the bulk of their road-straddling gatehouses unmissable and their clustered tricolours of lawn,
A witch doctor from Lesotho was busy cooking body parts of a white farmer when he was arrested, the Free State High Court heard this week. The trial of Moeketsi Hopolong Mokoena (34) on Monday before Judge A. Kruger was postponed until April 22, the Beeld reported. According to the charge sheet, he was busy
Read more: Lesotho witch doctor found cooking the remains of white Afrikaner farmer
In one of the fastest-growing areas in psychology, researchers are gaining insight into the mental processes of subjects that are barely able to communicate: babies. In recent years, innovative and playful experimental setups have suggested that infants as young as six months old have a sense of morality and fairness, and that 18-month-olds are capable of altruistically helping others. Some of
