Nicholas van Hoogstraten, the British property tycoon who is close to the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, is expected to appear before Harare magistrates today on charges of breaking foreign exchange laws and possessing pornographic pictures of himself having sex with a Zimbabwean woman. Van Hoogstraten, 63, was arrested on Thursday night apparently after tenants who […]
Tycoon Van Hoogstraten Arrested in Zimbabwe
The notorious property tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten has been arrested in Zimbabwe on charges of breaking the troubled country’s currency exchange laws and possessing pornography. The move is being seen in some quarters as part of a plan by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to seize his once close supporter’s multi-million-pound business empire, which spans mining, […]
Airline charges : is cheap air-travel a myth?
‘Buy tickest at Re1/- between chennai and Hyderabad or for that matter between Chennai and New Delhi or fares starting from Rs.500 from destination A to B." These are only samples of advertisments that deluge the print and online media released by the Airlines especially to lure the first-time passengers. If you are attracted by […]
Hard times for cotton farmers.
Cotton traders have stopped buying cotton from farmers and DAP fertiliser is not available in the market in Muzaffargarh district, Dawn has learnt. Heaps of cotton are lying with farmers but there is no buyer as traders have stopped buying the yield for the two last weeks. Cotton is considered a cash crop and any […]
Lindsay Lohan Squanders $7m on Booze, parties.
Hollywood superstar Lindsay Lohan is broke after blowing her fortune on a massive orgy of booze and drugs. In recent months, the actress has squandered a staggering seven million dollars on her wild partying. And npow, the 21-year-old is so skint she can’t afford her own place. Her extravagant spending spree includes: A million dollars on […]
Corruption & Unending Problems in Africa
Corruption and Unending Problems in Africa Africa is incontrovertibly blessed with an abundance of natural resources, especially land that is rich in all sorts of imaginable minerals. Hundreds and thousands of fertile tracts that are conducive for agriculture can be found nowhere else on the globe except in most African countries. Had these resources been […]