A wonder fuel-saving pill has entered the local market but the Automobile Association (AA) warned consumers on Monday to be cautious of such products. The tablet, called the MPG Cap, is added to tanks to make petrol burn more efficiently, said Tim Dunstan-Smith, who claims he was the first person to bring the product to South Africa.
Fifty illegal immigrants have died in an attempt to reach Europe from North Africa, the Tunisian Arab-language daily Assabah-Ousbouii reported on Monday. The victims, all of them African, died of hunger or thirst or froze to death after the small boat in which they were travelling apparently ran out of petrol.
The German government on Monday brushed off a verbal attack from Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in which the leftist leader said Chancellor Angela Merkel was a political descendant of Adolf Hitler and German fascism. Merkel sets off for her first trip to Latin America on Tuesday.
Tens of millions of rands of Lotto money earmarked for charities and good causes is lying undistributed in the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Monday. Over a 100 non-profit organisations were affected, DA social development spokesperson Janet Semple told a parliamentary media briefing.
As the state wrapped up its case in the Najwa Petersen murder trial on Monday, Najwa’s advocate said no decision had been taken on whether she would testify in her own defence. ”I’ve still to consult with Mrs Petersen,” said senior counsel Klaus von Lieres und Wilkau. ”We will make up our minds in the course of the coming week.”
Africa’s biggest transport and logistics company, Imperial Holdings, said on Monday it was considering a merger of its Regent Life and Regent Insurance companies. ”A merger would enhance the growth prospects and operational synergies of these businesses …,” the company said in a statement.
An angry mob shot dead two people and injured at least 40 in suspected xenophobic attacks in Alexandra township on the weekend, Johannesburg police said on Monday. ”They threw stones at these people, shot at them, whipped some of them with sjamboks and robbed them,” said Inspector Moses Maphakela.
Travelgate MP Mnyami Booi has been granted a postponement of his trial, which was to have started in the Cape Town Regional Court last week. The postponement is to allow him to use the services of his advocate of choice, senior counsel Jan Heunis, who is not available now.
I am happy that Jacob Zuma now knows that there are poor whites among us. It augurs well for all of us when (it increasingly appears to be ”when” and not ”if”) he becomes our next president. You might wonder why his communist friends did not alert him to this reality earlier. Better late than never, I guess.
The Canterbury Crusaders wrapped up top spot going into the Super 14 play-offs but the battle for the remaining three berths stayed wide open after the penultimate round over the weekend. With one game to play, six teams hold a mathematical chance of joining the Crusaders in the semifinals.