Extension 20 residents of Lebohang in Leandra are up in arms over a blocked sewerage pipe in their yard that has been making their lives miserable for the past four years. The stench has forced them to cover their noses with a cloth and scarves daily. Ms Leya Mahlangu (55) said the pipe has burst
ANCYL wants Motlanthe
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe is the ANC Youth League’s choice for the position of ANC president, it said on Wednesday. It would nominate him for this post at the African National Congress’s elective conference in Mangaung in December, ANCYL spokeswoman Khusela Sangoni-Khawe said in a statement. “We are calling on all our structures and ANC
Dutch show courage in Zim
Dutch farmers want Zimbabwe to pay them compensation. White farmers were forced off their land during from 2000 to 2002 when the land grabbing started in all earnest. Radio Netherlands reported on Wednesday that the farmers took their case to the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a Washington-based court which operates
Africans first in penis size
The scientific journal Personality and Individual Differences has recently published research on the average erect penis lengths of men around the world, and according to the study, the men of the Republic of Congo are the biggest at an average penis length of 18 cm. The study ranked 113 nationalities. British men were ranked 78th with
Were Afrikaners ‘dirty African peasants’?
by Dan Roodt Pauline Morris in Boer women and children died ‘due to backwardness wants to “open up a critical debate on the realities of the Boer War concentration camps”, as part of the wider “de-mythologising” of South African history. I can only say: “Bring it on!” Let us open the archives and reread the
The British were terrorists
by Dr Elma Ross, Wynberg, Cape Town The letter by Pauline Morris, Anglo-Boer war myth, refers. It is indeed necessary to debate issues concerning the concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer War. My grandparents were in the Bethulie and Aliwal North camps as children, and they could never shake off the horror that they experienced. They
Don’t poke fun at a black man!
Credit R. Wallace “Wally” Hudson, chairman of the Mecklenburg County (Va.) Republican Committee, with demonstrating how new social media platforms can broadcast ancient hates. The Post reported this week that the county GOP’s Facebook page had displayed for months photos portraying President Obama as a witch doctor, a caveman and a drug dealer. Virginia’s Republican Party
Chasing non-white votes
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he would honor temporary work permits for young illegal immigrants who were allowed to stay in the U.S. because of a decision by President Barack Obama. Romney told The Denver Post, in an interview appearing in Tuesday’s edition, that people who are able to earn the two-year visas to
Obama’s other race speech
In a video obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama tells an audience of black ministers, including the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, that the U.S. government shortchanged Hurricane Katrina victims because of racism. “The people down in New Orleans they don’t care about as much!” Obama shouts in the video, which was shot
Race dominates US election debate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservatives on Tuesday used a speech President Barack Obama delivered as a candidate in 2007 to accuse him of using racially charged rhetoric. “There’s no way you can listen to this speech and not hear it as a deliberately divisive speech that pits Americans against each other and does so largely with
Two students, one black, ‘lynched’ in France
French police on Tuesday arrested 12 suspects over the killing of two students lynched by a mob armed with hammers, baseball bats and knives. The killings last Friday in the Echirolles suburb of Grenoble sparked outrage in France and prompted President Francois Hollande to travel to the southeastern city late Monday to visit the families
New York criminals prefer Apple devices
The New York Police Department is deploying a surge of detectives to patrol an increasingly mean new beat: Facebook and other social networks. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Tuesday that he’s doubling the number of detectives assigned to combating local teen gangs and that increased surveillance of social networks will be a major part of
Black rapist gets life sentence
A KwaZulu-Natal man was jailed for life plus 90 years on Tuesday for rape and robbery, police said. Sibongiseni Sibisi, 32, was earlier found guilty by the High Court in Pietermaritzburg, said Captain Thulani Zwane. He committed the crimes in the Inchanga area during 2010 and 2011. “Sibisi would go to different households, where the
My witchdoctor raped me
A sangoma from Soweto was arrested on Tuesday morning for allegedly raping a woman who had gone to him for healing, Gauteng police said. The 50-year-old man invited the woman to his residence to carry out a cleansing ritual on Monday night because she believed she was cursed with bad luck, spokesman Captain Kay Makhubela