HEALTH commentators on Tuesday widely slammed as “laughable” comments by a health department representative that the ministry may reappraise scientific evidence that HIV causes Aids. They were reacting to a statement by Dr Ian Roberts, a special adviser to Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, that the department is looking into the feasibility of getting a […]
MORE than 40% of Africans live on less than a dollar a day, according to World Trade Organisation (WTO) figures announced at a conference of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa). A WTO delegation representative told Egypt’s government Al-Akhbar newspaper that poverty is “the most serious problem afflicting the African continent.” The […]
GRIQUAS thrashed Eastern Province by six wickets in their Standard Bank League match played in Kimberley on Wednesday. EP were restricted to 186/7 in their 45 overs, and the home side reached 187/4 in the 42nd over. EP’s poor score was a direct result of a remarkable batting collapse which saw them fall from 58/2 […]
YP RAJESH, Bangalore | Thursday 4.00pm SOUTH Africa’s five-pronged pace attack sent India tumbling to 158 all out on the first day of the second and last test on Thursday. Mornantau Hayward, who crucially dismissed Sachin Tendulkar for 21, and Shaun Pollock shared four of the seven wickets to fall to the pacemen, with left-arm […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 1.00pm THE Reserve Bank increased its pool of foreign reserves in February and reduced its foreign borrowing, but not by as much as economists were expecting and financial markets were muted. Gross gold and foreign exchange reserves increased by R400-million to R47-billion and the Reserve Bank’s net open foreign exchange […]
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Zimbabwe’s central bank governor is having ”sleepless nights” over how to tame inflation currently running at more than 120%, The Herald newspaper reported on Friday. Governor Gideon Gono is struggling to contain inflation, which President Robert Mugabe’s government considers the ”number-one enemy”.
JONTY Rhodes has been called in to boost Natal’s chances of reaching the semi-finals of the Standard Bank limited-overs cricket series. Rhodes, widely regarded as the best fielder in the world, has stayed in South Africa while the rest of the national team tour India due to the arrival of a baby daughter. The Natalians […]
A SOUTH AFRICAN air force rescue team saved a Mozambican baby from certain death just an hour after she was born on Wednesday in a tree where her mother was perched over floodwaters. Sophia Pedro, 22, and her baby daughter Rositha, were among the few lucky ones. An AFP reporter witnessed the rescue of Rositha, […]
MOROCCO’S bid to host the 2006 World Cup finals is “very, very impressive,” Alan Rothenberg, head of Fifa’s inspection team, said on Monday. “We were impressed by the official commitment to organise the cup. The feeling is something we are very interested in,” he said at the end of the team’s five-day inspection of the […]