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/ 5 February 2008
A funeral service was held in London for Bertram ”Jimmy” James, one of the few British prisoners to avoid being executed for joining in the ”great escape” from a German prison in World War II. James, who was 92, died on January 18 in Ludlow in northern England.
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/ 5 February 2008
African soccer’s governing body has denied telling Didier Drogba and Frederic Kanoute that they had to attend last week’s African Footballer of the Year award ceremony to have a chance of winning. Côte d’Ivoire striker Drogba opted not to travel to Togo and Mali’s Kanoute, who did go, was declared the winner.
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/ 5 February 2008
The police raid on the Johannesburg Central Methodist Church will affect the mental and physical health of Zimbabwean migrants, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Tuesday. ”Some [refugees] had suspected fractured ribs and possible lung contusions after receiving blows,” MSF said in a statement.
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/ 5 February 2008
The lives of many animals may be threatened by power failures unless adequate back-up facilities are provided, the the National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) said on Tuesday. ”People who hold animals in captivity … [must] implement a contingency plan,” said the NSPCA.
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/ 5 February 2008
The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) will invest R100-million in a process to convert superfine iron ore into high quality iron units. The IDC said Iron Mineral Beneficiation Services — the company that has developed the technology called Finesmelt — would receive approximately R100-million from the IDC.
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/ 5 February 2008
A Baviaanspoort prisoner who allegedly attacked and almost killed two nurses at the jail three years ago had acted rationally at the time of the offence, a psychiatrist told the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday. Dr Herman Pretorius told acting Judge Solly Sithole there were no signs that Thabo Masinga had suffered from psychosis.
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/ 5 February 2008
Minerals and Energy Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica on Tuesday denied advising South Africans to go to bed early as a means of conserving electricity. ”That speech didn’t say ‘Go to bed, go to bed, go to bed’,” she said at a media briefing at the launch of the department’s national energy efficiency campaign.
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/ 5 February 2008
Société Générale was braced for fresh criticism from France’s top central banker on Tuesday as the man the bank blames for its record trading losses spoke out against his former employer. Jerome Kerviel (31) is under police investigation and said that he would not be turned into a ”scapegoat”.
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/ 5 February 2008
The African National Congress in the Eastern Cape was awaiting details on Tuesday regarding a brawl at a branch meeting which apparently landed some people in hospital. It was reported that a number of ANC members in Alice had sustained injuries after the meeting ended in an exchange of blows on Sunday afternoon.
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/ 5 February 2008
Negotiations to address Zimbabwe’s political crisis were no longer needed as it was only procedural issues that remained to be solved, South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said on Tuesday.