In May last year, Eresina Mosiea (45) from Langaville in Tsakane, Ekurhuleni, SA, and her boyfriend Mandla Radebe consulted Dr Mamasue, who lives in Sandton, north Johannesburg.While they were with the traditional healer, they heard a voice.Mosiea said, “A man’s voice talked to us and asked our names and Dr Mamasue told us the voice belonged to my ancestors.“The voice told us to buy two lit

Mido Macia's sister-in-law Lindiwe Ngwenya has said that her family have received death threats over the phone.The voice continued: “You like things and you will get what’s coming to you. You are doing this for a foreigner but you won’t do it for a South African.”The woman who identified herself only as Nhlanhla then ended the phone call which was from a private number.But the family told

The violent death Mido Macia, 27, a taxi driver and Mozambican national, who was tied to the back of a police van and dragged along a street in Daveyton, on the southern outskirts of Johannesburg, on Tuesday has raised fresh concerns over the treatment of foreign nationals in the country.Cameron Jacobs, the South Africa director of Human Rights Watch, said: "This is not the first time that we've s

The Police has arrested no fewer than 70 persons in connection with the death of Damilola Damoche, a student at the Lagos State University, LASU.Damoche was murdered in cold blood last Thursday by suspected cultists.Vanguard gathered that the arrest was made by a combined team of the Area E police command  who  paraded the streets of Ojo, Iba, PPL, Igbo-Elerin, Igando, Okokomaiko, Iyana

The Zimbabwe government has launched investigations into reports that 100 pupils at Mavhudzi High School in Nyazura, Manicaland Province, were allegedly subjected to HIV tests without the consent of their parents.A senior teacher, Nesu Musa, allegedly presided over the tests during the third term in 2011 and the objective remains unknown.Yesterday she refused to comment on the matter, saying it wa

A woman has been arrested after four champagne diners failed to pay for their £520 meal at a restaurant in Essex.Three men and a woman drank two £150 bottles of champagne and ate steak and lamb at Milsoms, in Dedham, before leaving on 16 February.A 46-year-old woman from Colchester was arrested on Friday on suspicion of making off without payment.She has been released on bail until April pendin

Police in New York, US, are looking for the driver and passenger of a car that crashed into another vehicle carrying a young husband and wife.The young couple were killed while they were en route to a New York City hospital for the birth of their first child.Police say their baby boy was delivered prematurely at the hospital after the accident early Sunday in Brooklyn.Other reports say that the ba

Roosevelt Allen Douglas II, of Hawthorne, Fla., US, was arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious exhibition. He apparently touched himself in front of a 12-year-old girl.However police say he told them he was just trying to fix a hole in his pants.Douglas, 32, was at the home of the girl on Wednesday, when he allegedly started masturbating in front of her, then showed her some inappropriate

Layne Hardin of Louisiana, US, has filed a lawsuit in Harris County, Tex. against a sperm donation clinic and his ex-girlfriend, Toby Devall.He claims that Obstetrical and Gynecological Associates' sperm bank failed to provide proper safeguards to keep Devall from stealing his sperm.ABC News reports that Hardin and another now ex-girlfriend, Katherine LeBlanc, originally signed a contract in 2002

When mum-of-two Maria Butzki left her husband Paul for another man, she didn’t realise how much she’d miss him.At the same time, she couldn’t imagine living without her new lover Peter Gruman.So when the two men struck up an extraordinary friendship, she came up with the perfect solution... and moved Peter into the family home in Barking, East London.Now Maria, 33, Paul, 37, their two ­chi

Images from a hair salon inside the notoriously secretive country show a menu of 28 state sanctioned styles.North Korean women can choose from 18, while men must make do with only 10 1980s inspired hairstyles.The country’s ruling party is saying that fashion forward hair is a big no-no.The North Korean government thinks these styles are “most comfortable” and able to guard against the “co

Aesha Mohammadzai, from Afghanistan appeared on the cover of Time magazine and became a poignant symbol of female oppression in her country following her attempted escape.The teenager whose nose and ears were cut off as punishment for attempting to flee an abusive marriage has revealed her new nose following reconstructive surgery three years on, following a move to America.Aesha was originally mu

Bahsid McLean, 23, from Bronx, US, accused of killing and dismembering his mother, then stuffing her body parts into garbage bags appeared in court dressed in garbage bags.McLean, who was charged with murder, hindering prosecution. and criminal possession of a weapon, also had a souvenir cellphone photo of himself holding aloft his mother’s severed head. In spite of all this, he told the judge,

Clothing firm Solid Gold Bomb, which was selling t-shirts on Amazon.co.uk with an array of offensive slogans including ‘keep calm and rape a lot’ and ‘keep calm and hit her’ have apologised for the ‘offensive’ items.Amazon have confirmed that the t-shirts were no longer for sale online.Both companies were bombarded with angry messages as a result, prompting Solid Gold Bomb to close its

A self-confessed 13 year old hitman has been found murdered in Mexico.The body of the child was among six bodies found near Morelos in the central state of Zacatecas on Thursday morning, El Universal reported.The victims, four women, one man and the teenager, showed signs of torture, the newspaper added, citing Zacatecas Attorney General Arturo Nahle García.Apparently one of the victims may have