Gerda Dullaart The KwaZulu-Natal Conservation Service this week launched a R1,3-million strategy to combat tuberculosis in buffalo that doesn’t entail killing the animals in order to test them for the disease. The service expressed its concern about the threat of buffalo TBspreading to cattle in neighbouring areas, and from there to humans. For the past […]
Magnus Heystek appears to have created an eyebrow-raising conflict of interest in a property deal involving a family trust of which he is a trustee. Mungo Soggot and Belinda Beresford report High-profile financial adviser Magnus Heystek engineered a questionable R1,5-million property deal in which a family trust he oversees bought into land used for his […]
General Olusegun Obasanjo, president-elect of Nigeria, is in the position of a man who is damned if he does, and damned if he does not. Damned by his fellow soldiers because in October 1979, while his military government, the Supreme Military Council, was enjoying a lot of popularity, he handed over power to a democratically […]
THE Democratic Party said on Thursday that party leader Tony Leon does not appear on the voters’ roll released by the Independent Electoral Commission, despite having registered last November. DP spokesperson Jack Bloom accused the IEC of “outrageous inefficiency”. Leon will re-register on Friday morning.
A SENIOR Mozambican Muslim leader has been arrested in Maputo for alleged involvement in trading human body parts, police said on Friday. A police spokesperson said Maulana Mahomed Chafique was arrested this week as he was due to receive a human head he allegedly ordered from two young men. The men were apprehended with the […]
Cathy Jenkins Craig Williamson’s amnesty application hearing ended in Pretoria this week after a marathon seven days of legal argument – with warring lawyers and evasive witnesses making no attempt to reconcile in the spirit intended by Truth and Reconciliation Commission. George Bizos, SC, for the families of Ruth First and Jeanette and Katryn Schoon, […]
The vacuum left by the transition from the old Medicines Control Council to the new regulator is bad news for consumers of complementary medicine. Aaron Nicodemus reports In warehouses, on loading docks and on natural food store shelves, a pitched battle is being fought over dietary supplements, vitamins and herbal remedies. The battle over “complementary […]
Jack Schofield On the Web, pornography is just a misplaced keystroke away. Last week, Brian Milburn, president of California-based Solid Oak Software, said: “Our researchers have discovered thousands of registered domain names that are extremely similar to those of major companies. We call them `typo’ sites.” The increase in such sites was “an alarming trend”, […]
MALI defeated Guinea 4-1 in a play-off match in Ghana on Wednesday to decide which team will join Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and Zambia to represent Africa in the World Under-20 football championship in Nigeria in April. Mali’s four goals were all scored in the second half of the match. The first goal came from Amadou […]
Mark Tran in New York Boxing Almost 20 years after Muhammad Ali retired from boxing, another Ali is poised to enter the ring, perhaps as soon as this summer. She is Laila Ali, his youngest daughter. Laila Ali, aged 21, trains at the Los Angeles Boxing Gym, turning up every night for sparring practice. One […]