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Meet Toma, the Namibian Actor Who Helped Gross $60m for the 1980 Film ‘The Gods Must Be Crazy’ and Was Paid $300 Born in Namibia and a member of the San also known as Bushmen, N!xau Toma, famously called the African bush farmer, was an actor who spoke fluent Jul’hoan, Otjiherero, Tswana as well as some Afrikaans which are dominant languages in the south of Africa. He shot to worldwide prominence after an appearance as the lead role of the 1980 comedy film, The Gods Must Be Crazy. He became one of the most improbable and reluctant international celebrity after taking the role. In the movie, N!xau appearing as Xixo portrayed a gentle leader of a local tribal clan of Khoisan people. He was also a sober bushman with a comic smile who discovers a Coca-Cola bottle thrown out of an airplane. Upon discovering the bottle, he sees it as an alien object and it sets off into a comedy of errors. This comic role endeared him to viewers especially those in Asia who were convinced that he makes three ...

Man Burns Wife, Children Over Divorce Adomonline Oct 19, 2021 Read original File photo: Crime A 49-year-old Odzi woman was burnt to death while her minor children are battling for life at Victoria Chitepo Provincial Hospital after her Mozambican ex-husband reportedly set fire on their two-roomed rented cottage. The incident happened last Monday night at Nyamatsine Township in Odzi. The suspected arsonist, George Chiringa, reportedly doused the cottage with an unknown flammable substance before setting it on fire. Chiringa and the now-deceased Enia Mutemera were married and they were blessed with a child. It is alleged that Mutemera together with her three children aged 16, 12, eight and her grandson retired to bed after locking their cottage from inside. It is further alleged that Chiringa went, tied the door with a wire from outside before he poured an unknown flammable substance and set the house on fire. Chiringa then disappeared. Neighbours who heard screams came to help, after hel...

‘Passengers Used Phones To Record Rape’ On US Train Without Intervening Breakingnews  Oct 19, 2021  Read original A man charged with raping a woman on a commuter train just outside a US city harassed her for more than 40 minutes while multiple people held up their phones to seemingly record the assault without intervening, authorities said. More than two dozen train stops passed as the man harassed, groped and eventually raped the woman, the police chief for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority said at a news conference. Police do not believe a single witness on the train just outside Philadelphia dialled 911. They are investigating whether some bystanders filmed the assault. Both the man and woman got on the train at the same stop on Wednesday night in North Philadelphia. Officers pulled the man off of the woman at the last stop. They responded within about three minutes of a 911 call from a transport authority employee, authorities said. Septa general manag...