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/ 13 October 2006
Levi Strauss’s ongoing HIV youth awareness campaign, ”Red for Life”, has taken a surprising turn with the announcement that it intends giving away tickets to a concert to youngsters who take HIV tests. The tests, at branded Levi’s mobile testing centres, will be situated in public places from October 14.
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/ 13 October 2006
The ”blue Scorpions” have opened 500 cases of water crime in a countrywide crackdown since it began operating in June. Some of these cases involve politicians and other powerful individuals, but the head of the water affairs department’s policing unit, Nigel Adams, refused to divulge the names of those who have violated the Water Act.
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/ 13 October 2006
While same-sex partners will soon be able to marry legally, it seems increasingly likely that heterosexual couples will be able to choose from two marriage Acts to formalise their unions. The Civil Unions Bill, although purporting to be equal in status and legal rights to the Marriage Act, creates a separate regime for same-sex couples.
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/ 13 October 2006
The South African Broadcasting Corporation has violated the recommendations of the commission it appointed to probe a blacklist by releasing only a sanitised summary of its findings on Thursday. The commission’s 78-page report, of which the Mail & Guardian has a copy, is damning. It confirms the existence of an arbitrary blacklist of outside commentators who should not be consulted and says there is a climate of fear in the broadcaster’s newsrooms.
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/ 13 October 2006
Those who played soccer on township streets may remember the relatively rich boy lucky enough to own a plastic soccer ball. This lad, usually wanting in ability, took his ball away while all were having fun because his side was losing and the other kids were constantly outsmarting him.
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/ 13 October 2006
The CEO of Armscor, Sipho Thomo, has been implicated in a massive fraud case being investigated by the Scorpions and the National Prosecuting Authority against Ernest Khosa, the former CEO of the Mpumalanga Economic Empowerment Corporation (MEEC).According to papers filed in the regional court in Pretoria, Khosa spent millions of rands of government money and took huge bribes over a period of six years while he was CEO of the MEEC.
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/ 13 October 2006
South Africa batsman Herschelle Gibbs turned his attention to cricket on Friday, a day after being interrogated by Indian police in a six-year-old match-fixing case. The 32-year-old explosive batsman was playing in a warm-up match against a Mumbai team, three days before South Africa open their Champions Trophy campaign against New Zealand.
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/ 13 October 2006
New Zealand’s Auckland Blues will host last year’s winners the Canterbury Crusaders in the opening Super 14 match when the 2007 competition begins in February, organisers Sanzar said on Friday. The competition will start a week earlier next year to allow for the Rugby World Cup in France.
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/ 13 October 2006
The Pennsylvania school in which five Amish girls were shot dead and five injured this month was bulldozed before dawn on Thursday and the rubble buried, as a small rural community attempted to erase all physical traces of the murders. The grave of the killer, Charles Carl Roberts, a local milk lorry driver who shot himself after the murders, has been vandalised.
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/ 13 October 2006
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille has accepted Provincial and Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi’s invitation to a meeting next week to resolve the city council dispute and wants to have the matter resolved quickly, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported on Thursday.