Anita Pallenberg, who has died aged 73, was sexual muse to three of the Rolling Stones; she did drugs, sadomasochistic sex and dabbled in black magic, yet lived to tell the tale. A ravishing beauty with a shock of blonde hair, heavily kohled eyes and a stick-thin frame, she epitomised the Sixties "rock chick". But there was something more dangerous about Anita Pallenberg than there was about, say, Marianne Faithfull, who recalled Anita's "terrible smile, which was quite frightening too, all those teeth". She had an autocratic foreignness which people found both scary and seductive. She herself sometimes claimed to be a witch. Her effect on some members of the group was calamitous. When she first met the Stones in 1965, she was just 21. But she had already appeared in films and fashion magazines, knew Andy Warhol and "everyone else" in New York, could say "f--- off" in six languages, knew about drugs and was highly qualified in the arts of sex; her model agency billed her as "too beautiful to get out of bed".
Andimba Toivo ya Toivo, a Namibian nationalist leader who fought a long and dogged campaign for his land's independence and was jailed for 16 years alongside Nelson Mandela in South Africa's notorious Robben Island prison, died on Friday in Windhoek, Namibia's capital. He was 92. The newspaper The Namibian and other news outlets in Namibia reported his death, drawing tributes from the Nelson Mandela Foundation and other African organisations. While he did not attain the fabled aura that surrounded Mandela, ya Toivo nonetheless secured enduring status among Namibians as the inspiration for their uneven struggle against South Africa's disputed control of their land, once called South West Africa.