Archive for Category: "Global"

Surfer bitten to death by shark in SA

Surfer bitten to death by shark in SA

SOUTH AFRICA- A surfer has been killed by a shark at a South African beach dubbed the world’s deadliest following a string of attacks. Ngidi Msungubana, 25, died yesterday after being repeatedly bitten as he rode the waves off Second Beach in Port St Johns.

Picture: Egypt security forces beat up woman

Picture: Egypt security forces beat up woman

EGYPT- Protesters clashed with Egypt’s security forces in central Cairo on Sunday after the humiliating police beating of a veiled woman in Tahrir Square triggered widespread outrage in the country’s pro-democracy movement.

King Mswati tried to have sex with a bull

King Mswati tried to have sex with a bull

Among the highlights of the private Incwala ceremony last December was a symbolic demonstration by the king of his power and dominance in a process involving his penetration of a black bull, beaten into semi-conscious immobility to ensure its compliant acceptance of the royal touch.

Julius Malema in Pictures

Julius Malema in Pictures

Julius Malema’s 5 year suspension from the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and removal as president of its youth league is the defining moment in the party’s 99 year history. In this picture gallery we look at the life and times of the man they call ‘Juju’ and whose anti-Jacob Zuma campaign seems to have died.

Julius Malema in his own words

Julius Malema in his own words

Firebrand youth leader Julius Malema has been suspended from South Africa’s ruling ANC after being found guilty of bringing it into disrepute. Malema, 30, played a key role in Jacob Zuma’s rise to become president in 2009 but the pair have since fallen out, with Mr Malema accusing his former ally of not doing enough to relieve poverty.

Malema suspended for five years from ANC

Malema suspended for five years from ANC

Julius Malema, South Africa’s outspoken ANC youth league president, has been cast into the political wilderness after he was suspended from the party for five years over charges of misconduct.

First man functionally cured of HIV

First man functionally cured of HIV

There’s not much good news when it comes to this devastating virus. But that is perhaps why the story of the man scientists call the “Berlin patient” is so remarkable and has generated so much excitement among the HIV advocacy community.

Pictures of how Gaddafi was captured

Pictures of how Gaddafi was captured

Hounded from his luxury homes, Colonel Gaddafi spent his final moments holed up in a filthy drainage pipe begging for mercy. The cowardly dictator screamed “don’t shoot, don’t shoot” as rebels finally closed in to end his 42-year reign of brutality, mayhem and murder once and for all.