Germany’s railway operator plans to deploy mini drones to catch vandals who deface its trains with graffiti, with the aerial vehicles shooting thermal images of its train depots at night. Deutsche Bahn plans to soon start testing the vehicles which have four helicopter-style rotors and can shoot high-resolution pictures. “We are going to use this
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Moving carefully along a row of apple trees, two of Australia’s newest agricultural workers check if the fruit is ripe or the soil needs water or fertiliser. Meet “Mantis” and “Shrimp”, agricultural robots being tested to do these tasks and more in a bid to cut costs and improve productivity in Australia’s economically vital farm
Although France officially legalized gay marriage last month, organizers of an anti-gay marriage — or “pro-family” — parade decided to go forward with a planned demonstration Sunday — and hundreds of thousands turned out. Sandy Glass from Naperville, Illinois, was in Paris and witnessed the parade unexpectedly, telling TheBlaze she and her husband estimated more
The Afrikaners-only community Kleinfontein outside Rayton, east of Pretoria, insisted in a debate with the DA on Thursday that the criteria for its residents were not based on race. The community, which has existed for 21 years but came under the media’s spotlight this week, merely wanted to live out their values in seclusion, said
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by Johannes Myburgh Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe criticises Nelson Mandela for being too soft on whites, in a documentary giving a rare and intimate look into the family life of one of Africa’s longest serving and most vilified leaders. In a cosy lunch setting with his wife and children, the 89-year old speaks on a
Read more: Mandela too soft on whites, says Mugabe in documentary
JOHANNESBURG could become South Africa’s first megacity within the next 20 to 30 years. A megacity is defined as an urban area with a population of 10 million people or more. Only three African cities – Lagos, Cairo and Kinshasa – currently qualify. According to a KPMG report, “The role of cities in Africa’s rise”,
The scene of Sweden’s worst riots in years, Husby is on the surface at least a typically neat suburb of colorful playgrounds, manicured parks and low rise apartment buildings. Conversations with residents of this immigrant neighborhood soon bring tales of fruitless job hunts, police harassment, racial taunts and a feeling of living at the margins
‘The principal of Healdtown was Dr. Arthur Wellington, a stout and stuffy Englishman who boasted of his connection to the Duke of Wellington. At the outset of assemblies, Dr. Wellington would walk onstage and say, in his deep bass voice, “I am the descendant of the great Duke of Wellington, aristocrat, statesman, and general, who
Read more: South Africa’s decadence is an advanced form of British decadence
What happened yesterday in Woolwich has sickened us all. On our televisions last night, and in our newspapers this morning, we have all seen images that are deeply shocking. The people who did this were trying to divide us. They should know something like this will only bring us together and make us stronger. Today
I have just tweeted: “What goes around comes around. Britain supported terrorism against South Africa in 1980s, now they have it at home.” I feel sorry for the British people about the gruesome murder of a British soldier in Woolwich. However, the problematic ideology is not Islam but political correctness. There are almost worse horrors
Read more: Woolwich: South Africa’s present is Britain’s future
After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions from the left and right made clear that the BSA’s controversies are far from over. The Scouts’ longstanding ban on gay adults remains in force,
Youth gang riots in the Swedish capital Stockholm have entered fifth straight night. Hundreds of mostly immigrant teenagers tore through the suburbs, smashing windows and burning cars in the country’s worst outbreak of violence in years. At least six vehicles were torched throughout the city late on Thursday while the police called for reinforcements from
Read more: Swedish race riots: ‘They don’t want to integrate’
Continuing wildcat strikes and tension in the mining industry could impoverish South Africa, President Jacob Zuma warned on Thursday. “If the workers demand higher wages and that becomes a point of conflict, so sharp a conflict it could produce another Marikana, then there’s something wrong in our society,” he said in response to debate in
The reported racial exclusion policies of Kleinfontien farm settlement, near Pretoria, will be the target of a Democratic Alliance Youth protest on Thursday. The settlement, which reportedly only accepts “white, Afrikaans Protestants who abide by the Blood River Covenant” as residents or workers, had no place in a democratic South Africa, DA Youth leader Mbali
Read more: DA Youth will demonstrate against Afrikaner settlement at Kleinfontein
