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Hillary Orinde

Africa, Johannesburg, Nairobi

Southern Africa Reporter at Agence France-Presse (AFP)

Loves news. I love what I do. Southern Africa reporter @AFP. Ex Nairobi. Powered by milk 🥛 and chapati.

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  • Una madre sudafricana que vendió a su hija de 6 años es condenada a cadena perpetua

    1 week ago | es-us.noticias.yahoo.com | Hillary Orinde

    Hillary ORINDE29 de mayo de 2025, 5:00 a.m.·3  min de lecturaUn tribunal sudafricano condenó el jueves a una madre a cadena perpetua por secuestrar y vender a su hija de seis años, en un caso que conmocionó al país. Racquel Smith y otros dos acusados fueron condenados a la pena máxima de cadena perpetua por tráfico de personas y a 10 años por secuestro, dictaminó el juez Nathan Erasmus.

  • S.African woman gets life term for selling 6-year-old daughter

    1 week ago | yahoo.com | Hillary Orinde

    A South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country. Joshlin Smith went missing in February last year from her home in Saldanha Bay, a fishing town 135 kilometres (85 miles) north of Cape Town, and has never been found. Her mother, Racquel "Kelly" Smith, was found guilty of kidnapping and selling the young girl, reportedly for 20,000 rand ($1,100).

  • Ageless beauty contest: South African grannies strut the catwalk

    3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Hillary Orinde

    At 17, Joyce Malindi won her first beauty contest under the suffocating limits of apartheid South Africa. Fifty-five years later, she was back on the catwalk, silver curls gleaming and brown clogs clicking, in a pageant for grandmothers only. The event in the Tokoza township outside of Johannesburg featured prayers, speeches and a performance against domestic violence, a national scourge.

  • South Africa Launches Reform Of Derelict Municipalities

    1 month ago | barrons.com | Hillary Orinde

    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa unveiled Wednesday a plan to revive South Africa's flagging local governments, weeks after publicly criticising the state of the financial capital Johannesburg as it prepares to host the G20 summit in November. Africa's most industrialised economy is divided into more than 250 municipalities, where basic services such as water and waste collection have deteriorated after years of neglect, graft and political infighting.

  • South Africa sets up inquiry into slow apartheid justice

    1 month ago | yahoo.com | Hillary Orinde

    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Wednesday a judicial inquiry into claims of deliberate delays in prosecuting apartheid-era crimes three decades after the end of white-minority rule. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) created in 1996 exposed crimes, including murder and torture, carried out during apartheid but few of these cases have progressed to trial.

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