Man rapes pupil in school toilets, walks away Just 24 hours before a man abducted six boys from a primary school in Walmer Estate, another primary school pupil fell victim to a child predator, who gained access to the school grounds, raped her in the toilet during school hours and walked away, it has now been learnt. Along with the rape of an eight-year-old girl walking home from school a few days... 

NEW YORK – A case of postelection nerves sent Wall Street plunging Wednesday as investors absorbed a stream of bad economic news abd wondered how a Barack Obama presidency will help the country weather a possibly severe recession. Volatility returned to the market, with the Dow Jones industrials falling nearly 500 points and all the major indexes tumbling more than 5 percent. The market was expected... 

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White people of European descent will no longer make up a majority of the US population by the year 2042 – eight years sooner than previous estimates. The big change is among Hispanics and Asians whose share of the population is set to double to 30% and 9%. The US Census Bureau’s latest projections are based on birth, death and current immigration rates.  The projections show that the US... 

Click on the image to enlarge it Biologists have constructed a genetic map of Europe showing the degree of relatedness between its various populations. All the populations are quite similar, but the differences are sufficient that it should be possible to devise a forensic test to tell which country in Europe an individual probably comes from, said Manfred Kayser, a geneticist at the Erasmus University... 

The majority of companies going under were reported to be in: * The financing sector * Insurance * Real estate, and * Business services THE bleak economic situation is the main culprit behind the high company liquidation numbers recorded by Statistics SA in June. According to Stats S A , the total number of liquidations recorded for June increased by 28.7 percent from 181 to 233 when compared with... 

Johannesburg – A survey by TNS Research has found that a new low of 49% of metropolitan adults feel positive about South Africa and its future compared with 60% in February. The reading in February was then a new low and the yearly average in 2007 was 66%. Analysis by race group shows that while blacks are generally the most positive, in the quarter to June their figure also shows its largest... 

A breakdown in the crime statistics recorded between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2008 as reported by the SA Police Service: NOTE: They hide the actual murders by splitting them into two different categories – they show total murders, plus… way down the list they show the culpible homicides When taken together, the official number is huge – more than 31,500 murders per annum. The... 

South African Air Force only has 20 fighter-pilots left; submarine fleet needs 126 new submariners … July 30 2008 The SA defence minister admitted in parliament today that the country’s entire air force only has twenty operational fighter-pilots left. And the navy is advertising for 126 new submariners including 59 technicians — for its fleet of 3 submarines, crewed by 30 people... 

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Last month, President Thabo Mbeki was forced to call in the military to help the police restore order in townships across South Africa. A wave of xenophobic violence left 50 dead. Though the mob mostly targeted illegal immigrants from other parts of Africa, it also went after some economically successful South African minorities. It would be a tragedy if the ethnic violence fueled by rising poverty... 

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JERUSALEM – In an effort to combat what it calls Internet smears, Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign yesterday launched a website with the stated aimed of setting the record straight. One of the main issues addressed by Obama’s “Fight the Smears” site is the contention the Illinois senators was once a Muslim. “Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised... 

Municipalities in Sweden should be required to accept refugees, a government inquiry has concluded. Next week the results of a state commission will be presented which suggest that all municipalities should be forced to take in refugees, reports the Dagens Samhälle newspaper. Last year county administrative boards took over responsibility for managing the receiving of refugees. Since then, the boards... 

  Human rights group Amnesty International has said it is extremely alarmed by what it calls a “climate of discrimination” in Italy. The Italian section of the rights body said recent tough new immigration measures were a worrying trend. It added that politicians from both sides of the spectrum were legitimising the use of racist language. Last week, Italy’s new centre-right...