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‘Evil spirits’ disrupts teaching March 3 2011 at 09:22pm By Slindile Maluleka INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS Teaching at a Durban school was disrupted yesterday and today amid a wave of hysteria as pupils claimed they were being possessed by evil spirits.Durban Girls’ Secondary School in Dartnell Crescent, Greyville, was closed again today because of further disruptions.Police, who were called to the school yesterday, cordoned off the road as some pupils were reportedly seen running wildly across it soon after 10am. Some were rolling on the pavement.The school’s governing body chairman, Sam Kikine, who arrived later, confirmed that the pupils were hysterical.“The incident...

The first family says grace each night before dinner, President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle told ABC News in an interview that aired Friday. "It's interesting listening to the girls, what they pray for," the president told Barbara Walters, referring to daughters Malia and Sasha. "They'll talk about family and thanking God for blessing us, but they'll always add a little twist: 'I hope we have a great Thanksgiving, I can't wait to see the cousins,' " Obama said. "They used to pray for a dog, until we got a dog." "But in the end," the first lady added,...

Michelle Obama’s East Wing staff suggested she would take it slow once she started campaigning, emphasizing her nonpolitical “mom-in-chief” role and her noncontroversial fight against childhood obesity. Instead, the first lady made her political presence felt immediately Wednesday, delivering an impassioned and overtly religious pitch for Democrats to defend her husband’s legacy in the midterm elections. “We got this man in office; we’re all proud of Barack and his accomplishments,” Obama told syndicated radio host Tom Joyner before embarking on a week of campaign events that will take her to Wisconsin, Illinois, Colorado, Washington and California on behalf of endangered...

Hmong elders and cultural advisers were on hand to witness, and even videotape, the ceremony. Xang Vang now runs the Hmong American Mutual Assistance Association in Minneapolis, but he's always had a fondness for Frogtown. It was where he bought his first home in America, and where many other Hmong refugees got a new start in life. "That's why we Hmong dominate Frogtown -- to be Hmongtown," he jokes. The Hmong Funeral HomeAnd the Hmong Funeral Home on Dale Street was the first of its kind for the entire Twin Cities. For a while, it was the only place where...

In these last days, the Bible says it will be a time of mass hybridization and the mixture and corruption of human DNA by fallen angels, also known as "Aliens." The government is and has been, conditioning the existence of aliens through Hollywood, science fiction, cartoons, and other sources. However, they are not telling you the whole truth. These Aliens are not ascended masters, or enlightened ones, or beings from galaxies millions of miles away, nor are they our forefathers or original creators. They are fallen angels who were kicked out of heaven for their rebellion against the headship...

Greenland's coalition government was on the verge of collapse on Saturday in a row over cronyism after just three weeks in power, officials said on Saturday. Political leaders on the vast Arctic island, which is home to a US military base slated by Washington to be part of its missile defence shield, were in talks on forming a new coalition backed by a majority in the home-rule parliament. Greenland is part of NATO-member Denmark but the home-rule administration runs local affairs with Copenhagen responsible for foreign, security and defence policy. The coalition between the left-wing, nationalist Inuit Ataqatigiit (Inuit Brotherhood,...

Superstitious man divorces hubby over birthdayBy Roger Mugisha Some people are extremely superstitious. Residents of Wobulenzi county, Wakiso district laughed their hearts out as one Ssebugwawo chased his wife from his home because she had given birth on her own birthday. According to the residents, Ssebugwawo’s wife was born on September 28 and that also happened to be the same day that she gave birth to his first baby. Sebugwawo didn’t hesitate to start showering her with insults and accusing her of having evil spirits in her family. When the LC chairman asked him what the problem was, he told...