Cape Town housing activists not backing down, ‘Yacht fireworks’ spark forest blaze in Greece, Malawi swears in top comedian as vice-president, Tom Cruise leads huge names at Taylor Swift’s Wembley show, and Bad news for Yellowstone fans.
Most expensive number plates in South Africa, Skeleton unearthed at construction site, Springboks team filled with injuries, Malawi vice president killed in plane crash, and GameStop raises over $2bn after Roaring Kitty rally.
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TB Joshua lay down his latest predictions, but one man was not happy as the last time he predicted death, it happened.
Malawi evacuating citizens from SA. Zuma pleads for killing to stop. Stage 1 load-shedding begins. Australian male model dies fighting for ISIS. Gisele takes last catwalk.
Some people just need a good snotklap. This Malawian man, caught trying to flog off humans for R500 a pop, is one such person.
Check out this short documentary about a young Malawian called William Kamkwamba who built a windmill out of scraps and saved his family, and then ultimately his village, when famine and destitution threatened to destroy them. Real African success stories like this are hard to find, and this one is nothing short of extraordinary.
In 2009 Madonna broke ground for a new school in Malawi, side by side with the country’s Minister of Education. Now the singer’s plans to build a $15 million academy for girls have fallen by the wayside. Her Raising Malawi foundation announced recently that it would instead channel $300 000 into an existing NGO which builds schools, making some Malawians very unhappy.
Barely a month after Nolubabalo Nobanda made international headlines for trying to bring cocaine into Thailand via her dreadlocks, another South African has been caught smuggling drugs. Patience Monkei-Khame was arrested over the weekend in Malawi, after four kilograms of nose candy was found hidden in a baby pram she was pushing.
If you thought Madonna had a hard time adopting a Malawian child and getting through the forest of red tape that process entailed, it’s also going to be a much tougher task for foreigners to adopt a South African baby in the near future. Foreign parents hoping for adoption from South Africa are now required to prove their commitment to living here.
The Malawian government has had enough of people farting wherever they want. Malawian lawmakers will next week debate a law change that will make letting one rip in public a criminal offence. They’re not trying to be funny – they just want people to fart in toilets. They’ll get around to delivering those toilets when they’ve sorted out the farting.