Keep It Down, We're Watching TV

A South African couple have been ordered by their village chief to hold off on their love-making sessions until after 10:00 pm following a string of complaints about their howls of passion.

Neighbours of Emily Dolo and her boyfriend Barnett Motloung, who live in the eastern state of Mpumalanga, had complained to the village kgosi (elder) that their meals and television watching were being disrupted by the amorous couple for hours at a time.

"I have a nine-year-old boy and he always asks what is happening every time the woman screams," one neighbour told The Sowetan daily.

Dolo was initially ordered to stop making a noise when the couple were summoned to a tribal council but the elder later ruled that they must limit their sex sessions to between 10:00 pm and 5:00 am.