BOILING breast milk from a mother carrying the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) will prevent her passing the infection to her baby, says the SA Medical Research Council. ”Tests have shown that all the HIV in the milk is killed when the milk is heated to 56 to 63 deg C for about 20 minutes,” the […]
AFRICAN rubber production should rise by 6.8% this year to 363 000 tonnes, according to estimates from the Abidjan-based Association of Natural Rubber in Africa (ANRA). Ivory Coast, Africa’s largest producer, will reach 120000 tonnes in 2000 against 112000 in 1999, while Liberia, which restarted rubber activities in 1997 after the end of its civil […]
PROF MALEMA, Gaborone | Thursday THE body of an African warrior, preserved, stuffed, boot-blacked, and on show in Spain for close to 100 years, has returned to Botswana for burial. Known simply as El Negro (the black), the body of the unknown soldier was taken from a grave by two French taxidermists in 1830 and […]
AN 11-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly raping a two-year-old child at Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg. Police said the boy arrived at the little girl’s house at 6.30pm and found her with a another girl who was looking after her. The boy allegedly tried to rape the older girl, but she ran away, leaving […]
ROSALIND RUSSELL, Nairobi | Thursday A WAVE of grisly child murders in the Kenyan capital has sparked fury among the city’s residents, with three people killed in a riot in a Nairobi slum where tension has been high since the mutilated body of a five-year-old girl was found in a nearby maize field last week. […]
NAMIBIAN police in hot pursuit of abducted women crossed over the border into Angola, where they clashed with Angolan army soldiers, killing one of them. The police were seeking to rescue three Namibian women allegedly abducted by Unita rebels over the weekend, but found them held at an Angolan army border camp. A Namibian policeman […]
DEVELOPMENT of human resources is one of the most pressing problems facing South Africa’s dual economy, which has a wide disparity in levels of education and training, says the central bank’s chief economist. Economic policies would have to integrate the sophisticated industrial economy and the third world economy. This would entail opening up the developed […]
FUEL-from-coal company Sasol Ltd has bought back six percent of its shares for R1.7bn as part of its strategy to restructure its balance sheet. Sasol said a wholly-owned subsidiary had repurchased the shares over a four-month period. ”The share repurchase will result in revised gearing, a lower weighted average cost of capital and improved earnings […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Wednesday MPUMALANGA is sitting on a race war time bomb where farm labourers still live like slaves, are denied basic health care and are treated worse than mechanical implements such as tractors, the leading political parties in the province have warned. The situation is so bad in some areas that racial […]
A DIVING safari company has hunted and killed a suspected man-eating shark off Dar es Salaam’s main beach in Tanzania after it allegedly ate five people. The pregnant 400kg shark, believed to be responsible for the death of a 28-year-old student last week, was killed after “a hell of pursuit” off the popular Coco Beach. […]