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/ 17 October 2006
Without special efforts to test multi-drug resistant patients for resistance to other drugs, government will be unaware of the presence of extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) among TB patients, the director general of health said on Tuesday. Thami Mseleku was speaking at a TB workshop in Pretoria attended by World Health Organisation officials.
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/ 17 October 2006
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel on Tuesday said the salaries of municipal managers ”in aggregate” were ”not awfully high”. He was speaking at a media conference after the release of the Local Government Budgets and Expenditure Review at Parliament.
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/ 17 October 2006
The Oval Test compensation row took a new twist on Tuesday when the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) set Pakistan cricket officials a deadline of the end of the month to settle the dispute. The ECB are anxious to avoid court action — but they are equally determined to reclaim the £800 000 that was lost when Pakistan were deemed to have forfeited this summer’s fourth Test.
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/ 17 October 2006
The music industry has launched a fresh wave of 8 000 lawsuits against alleged file-sharers around the world, escalating its drive to stamp out online piracy and encourage the use of legal download services. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents the world’s music companies, said on Tuesday the new cases were brought in 17 countries.
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/ 17 October 2006
The Independent Democrats (ID) have accused Cape Town mayor Helen Zille of arrogance and contempt for her decision not to meet Western Cape local government minister Richard Dyantyi. Zille and her Democratic Alliance (DA), and the DA’s six coalition partners in the city government boycotted the meeting, which was attended only by the ID and the African National Congress.
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/ 17 October 2006
The Scorpions were conducting a selective prosecution in the parliamentary travel-voucher fraud case, the Cape High Court was told on Tuesday. ”In terms of the novel Animal Farm, some of us are less equal than others,” attorney Reuben Liddell, representing travel agent Soraya Beukes, told Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
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/ 17 October 2006
South African municipalities will raise up to R20-billion to fund major infrastructure projects over the next three years, a National Treasury official said on Tuesday. South Africa is planning massive capital expenditure to help push economic growth to at least 6% by 2010 in an attempt to cut widespread poverty.
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/ 17 October 2006
Zimbabwe on Tuesday postponed for the second time the trial of 31 trade union members accused of holding an illegal protest to allow the state to furnish more details of the charges to defence lawyers. The lawyer for the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions also complained that police were yet to investigate several officers on charges of assaulting union members after the September 13 protest.
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/ 17 October 2006
European giants Barcelona and Inter Milan go into battle on Wednesday looking to boost what has been a disappointing start to their Champions League campaigns.
Barcelona travel to Chelsea for what promises to be another epic battle between the two sides after two bruising encounters in successive seasons.
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/ 17 October 2006
Zimbabwe is trying to persuade close ally China to help construct houses for more than a million people in need, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo told the head of a visiting Chinese delegation that providing housing in Zimbabwe’s towns and cities was his government’s biggest challenge, reported the Herald daily.