South African police have discovered the bodies of eight women in the Kempton Park area, east of Johannesburg, over the past two months
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UA.NEWS15 September 2026 05:36
A flood and a landslide triggered by torrential rain have killed two elderly women and injured two babies in rural northwestern Spain, authorities said.
When Sue Nyathi sent her debut novel The Polygamist to publishers, “they thought there was no market for the book” about a married Zimbabwean man and the women he seduces, she says.
South Africa commemorates on Sunday 70 years since the Women’s March of 1956, when around 20,000 women of all races marched to the administrative capital, Pretoria, to protest apartheid laws forcing Black women to carry passes that restricted their movement. It was a powerful moment in the fight against white minority rule
