WINNIE MANDELA, (62) won reelection as president of South Africa's African National, Congress Women's League, it was announced yesterday. Despite speculation that President Nelson Mandela's former wife would he voted out because of the style of leadership, the heat her main opponent and deputy, Thandi Modise, by 656 votes to 114.
Mandy Allwood (32) is pregnant again just six months after losing octuplets, it emerged yesterday. Her eight baby pregnancy, which ended in miscarriages last October, sparked controversy over the use of fertility drugs.
More than 130,000 people congregated in Prague yesterday for a Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II, heating the turnout for Michael Jackson at a concert last ear. On the third and final day of his visit to the Czech Republic, the Pope recalled that he had first said Mass in Prague seven years ago, not long after the fall of communism.