800 Zimbabweans displaced, one dead in South Africa – Zimbabwe’s High Commissioner to South Africa, Isaac Moyo says the Zimbabwean government has concluded plans to begin the evacuation of about 1,000 Zimbabweans resident in South Africa following the recent xenophobic attacks in the country.
“Identification and processing of repatriation documents has already been done. It is very sad. Most people do not have any documentation. They don’t have any clothes apart from what they are wearing. Many of them left all their clothes and property behind. We are documenting people. This process means that we are giving them some sort of documentation to use upon returning to Zimbabwe. We are organising some buses to take them from Durban to Beit Bridge (the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe). Then they will be taken from Beit Bridge to their home provinces. We would want (the departure) to be as soon as possible. People are currently living in the most difficult conditions” he told the state-owned Chronicle newspaper today.
Kylie Jennerlooks stunning on the May cover of Teen Vogue. She’s not the only member of the Jenner-Kardashian clan landing a major magazine cover this month—younger sister Kylie just announced on her Instagram page that she’s the star of Teen Vogue’sMay issue. See more pics from her shoot below…
Crippling: Despite his paltry income, Rameshbhai spends approximately Rs 10,000 (£110) a month on food for his children
An impoverished father has revealed that he plans to sell his own kidney to fund life-saving treatment for his three morbidly-obese children.
Yogita Rameshbhai Nandwana, five, Anisha, three, and 18-month-old little brother Harsh are among the heaviest toddlers in the world each weighing a staggering 34kg (5.3st), 48kg (7.5st) and 15kg (2.5st) respectively.
The food they eat in a week is enough to feed two families in a month in their village in Gujarat, western India, Mirror reports.
Sisters Yogita Rameshbhai Nandwana, five, and Anisha, three, and their 18-month-old brother Harsh, are among the world’s heaviest young children. Weighing (34kg), (48kg) and (15kg) respectively, the food they eat in a week is enough to feed two families in a month.
Now their father Rameshbhai Nandwana, 34, of Gurjarat, India, is planning to sell his kidney to earn the money needed to see top specialists. DailyMail reports that he said:
‘If my kids continue to grow at this rapid rate they will have major health issues. We’re terrified they will die.’
The family
Yogita and Anisha eat 18 chapatis, 3lbs of rice, two bowls of broth, six packets of crisps, five packs of biscuits, 12 bananas and a litre of milk daily. And their extreme hunger means their mother Pragna Ben, 30, spends most of her day making their meals.
She said:
‘My day starts with making 30 chapatis and 1kg vegetable curry in the morning. After that I am again in the kitchen preparing more food. Their hunger never stops. They demand food all the time and cry and scream if they’re not fed. I am always in the kitchen cooking for them.’
The couple have one older daughter, Bhavika, six, who weighs an average 2st 7lbs (16kg), and do not know why their other three children are so big.
Mr Nandwana said:
‘When Yogita was born she was extremely weak and weighed just 1.5kg (3.3lbs). We were worried for her health. So we fed her a lot during the first year of her life to build her strength but by her first birthday she had bloated to 12kg (1st 12lbs).
Our third daughter Anisha also gained weight in similar fashion and by her first birthday she was 15kg.
But we only realised they were suffering from a disorder when our son Harsh was born as he too gained weight quickly during his first year. We started looking for medical help and consulted many doctors but they would just refer us to bigger hospitals that I couldn’t afford.’
Illness: The kids with just some of the pile of food they eat daily
Mr Nandwana earns just Rs 3000 (£35) a month – but usually has sufficient money to buy enough food to fulfil the large appetite of his children.
He continued:
‘I am a daily wage labour and I usually get paid Rs 100 a day but there are times when there is no work at all.
‘I work in fields, dig wells, and do whatever menial job I can find to earn money.
‘And I’m constantly worried about finding the money to feed my continually hungry children.’
Despite his paltry income, Mr Nandwana spends about Rs 10,000 (£110) a month on food for his children and said he ‘cannot leave them starving’
He added:
‘If I don’t have the money, I borrow it from my brothers and friends. But I make sure I feed my children when they need.’
The father has spent Rs 50,000 (£540) on seeing doctors and treatment over the last three years – without any improvement in his children’s condition.
He said:
‘No one in our family has a giant frame. Only my children are overweight. As parents, it pains us immensely to see them unable to move. They cannot walk; they cannot do anything on their own. Selling my kidney is a desperate measure. But I’m now desperate to get the right help for my children.’
Miss Ben cannot pick up her children so she has to watch them roll around when her husband is at work – or use a trolley to pull them around.
She said:
‘They need me to help them bath or when they need the toilet. I’m only 40 kg so it’s impossible for me to pick them up. It’s a struggle when my husband is at work.
They are usually restricted to the same place for the whole day and because of that, they cannot go to school. All they do all day is eat and play and giggle with each other.
I want my daughters to get an education and play like other kids. I want them to have a life. This is no life.’
Mom tries to carry one of them
Local doctors believe the children are suffering from Prader-Willi syndrome, but do not know how to treat it. The rare genetic condition causes various symptoms including constant hunger, reduced muscle tone, restricted growth and learning difficulties.
Love: Anisha, 3, hugs her father Rameshbhai Nandwana, 34, along with Harsh, 18-month-old, who also suffers the same syndrome
Hahahaha at quack quack. He actually looks like a used tampne…lol. Tyga is @Kinggoldchains on instagram. I went there to read the comments and screen grab some but the post already has over 2,000 comments so we will make do with MTO’s screen-grab..Hehe. Social media trolls are heartless!
This is so serious but I have to post it exactly the way it came to my E-mail unedited
From a female NFers reader
My husband’s sexual drive is so high that as his wife, I am exhausted and tired. He demands for sex from me like every other day and my refusal has caused issues between us. It is not like I am trying to run away from my marital duties but sometimes I just need him to understand that the rigours of work and taking care of our three little children takes its toll on me and sex is sometimes the last thing on my mind. I might just want to rest and as hardened a he is, even when he sees that I climb the bed by 11.30pm and I am to wake up by 5.30am to start preparing the children for school, he doesn’t care and still demands sex from me. I am Tired. Now I am thinking if I should talk to my Pastor or his Father so that they can talk to him for me. Is this a right or wrong move?
Foreign-owned shops in South Africa have been attacked and looted in east Johannesburg. Now some South African females are seen stealing from stores owned by foreign immigrants who were attacked by Zulu boys. So the men attack the stores, chase the store owners away and their women go to loot their stores. So sad!
Awww, a single father of three from Arkansas named Robin Thomas, posted this personal ad on his truck after finding it hard to find a girlfriend. The sign has a phone number and only one requirement: the person should be “Ages 21 and up.”
Mr Thomas said he’d been single for a while and when he had no luck on online dating he figured he’d make his search more public.
“I decided it can’t be any worse than what I was doing,” he told KAIT8
The retired cook said he’s looking for someone who is ‘normal and down-to-earth,’ ‘at least 28,’ and local. When asked what his children, aged 6 to 11, thought of his ad, he said. “They think it’s cute’.
Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichiehas been listed by Time magazine as one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. Her selection was based on her unique position as a literary success and an influential cultural voice.
Adichie studied political science at Eastern Connecticut State University, and has a Masters degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University and a Masters degree in African Studies from Yale. She has held fellowships at Princeton-where she taught a writing course-and Harvard.
She is the first Nigerian recipient of numerous prestigious literary awards including the Orange prize, the National Book Critics Circle award, the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Nonino Prize for fiction. She has, most recently, been shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC prize, the most lucrative literary award in the world.
In addition, she was listed as one of the top twenty fiction writers under the age of forty by The New Yorker magazine.
She has been awarded a Macarthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Macarthur ‘Genius’ Award.
Adichie has also been honoured by the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the ‘Global Ambassador’ award.
Her first TED talk, THE DANGER OF A SINGLE STORY, is one of the most-watched TED talks and is a staple of school courses all over the world. Her second TED talk, WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS, has been a major influence in the ongoing worldwide resurgence of feminism, and inspired Beyonce’s popular anthem FLAWLESS.
Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages and have sold over a million copies worldwide. The film adaptation of her most recent novel AMERICANAH will be co-produced by Brad Pitt and Lupita Nyong’o.
She lives in Lagos, where she organizes an annual creative writing workshop.
Other Nigerians on the TIME 100 list are activist Obiageli Ezekwesili, president-elect Muhammadu Buhari and artist Chris Ofili. Photographed by Lakin Ogunbanwo for New York magazine.
KeKe Palmer & Tia Mowry Fight? A few days ago, actress Tia Mowry tweeted her disapproval over the way actress Keke Palmer went on interviews to say she liked her co-star, Cory Hardrict, who is Tia’s husband (read here). According to MTO, Tia confronted Keke at the carpet premiere of KeKe’s new film, Brotherly Love and Keke didn’t back down. Read below..
KeKe Palmer-Tia Mowry drama is about to go into overdrive. According to an MTO tipster, we’re told that Tia “confronted” KeKe on the Los Angeles red carpet premiere of KeKe’s new film, Brotherly Love. Tia Mowry’s husband, Cory Hardrict, stars in the movie with KeKe Palmer. And according to one actress on the film, KeKe and Cory have become inappropriately close – and there are rumors going around . . . that she might be f*cking Tia’s husband.
Anyways, at Tuesday’s premiere, Tia Mowry tried to keep it classy and and politely asked KeKe to be a little more appropriate around Cory. A tipster told MediaTakeOut.com,”KeKe was hugging on Cory on the red carpet, and Tia told KeKe that she was uncomfortable with all the extra contact . . . KeKe told Tia that she’s like Cory’s little sister, and they were just cool.”
It was VERY CLEAR however, that Tia was very UPSET. Luckily for US ALL, Tia is too much of a lady to PUT HANDS on KeKe right then and there . So after a bit of heated discussion, Tia walked off.
Whoa! How did 50 Cent leave this!? Model Daphne Joy is the mother of 50 Cent‘s 2 year old son, Sire, and her body is the truth. The 28 year old model and aspiring actress showed off her amazing physique during a vacation in Miami, Florida, this week. See more photos after the cut…
Foreign-owned shops in South Africa have been attacked and looted in east Johannesburg, the latest in a series of xenophobic attacks.
Despite the global outcry over the recent Xenophobic attacks in South Africa on African migrants, Eastern Johannesburg yesterday night into the early hours of this morning recorded fresh attacks on shops owned by foreigners while a car and a building believed to be owned by a foreigner was set ablaze.
200 foreigners had to run to the Gauteng province Police station where they are now taking refuge. 12 of the South Africans who carried out the attack have been arrested and according to the police, they will be charged to court. Meanwhile most shops owned by foreigners are still under lock and key as they wait for the South African government to bring the situation under control.
The acting Premier of the Gauteng province around Johannesburg, Qedani Mahlangu, called on “each and every South African who’s a peace-loving South African to stand up and condemn this.”
Miley Cyrusand Selena Gomez pregnant by the same man..Hehe! Miley mocked the publication by posting it on her instagram with the caption “And by same man, we mean Justin Bieber.“
Lol. Dad watching over his little girl! Rapper Big Sean, who is dating Ariana Grande, shared a photo of himself on instagram and wrote “I give that D…#Detroit“. Ariana’s dad saw the post and went on the comment section to check Big Sean lol. He wrote “That D. better be Detroit Sean“. lmaooo..
Chris Brown is looking amazingly happy in his latest Instagram photo. The 25 year old singer shared this photo of himself and his daughter Royalty on his instagram page and wrote “God has blessed me with my twin“. This is the first time he’ll publicly acknowledge her. See another photo he shared on instagram below…
