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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
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
The man accused of murdering model Sally Anne Bowman had sex with her dead body after drunkenly stumbling across her corpse but denies murdering her, a court was told on Tuesday. Chef Mark Dixie (37) was said to have ”taken advantage of the situation” after discovering the body in Croydon, south of London.
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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
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
Fuels and petrochemicals group Sasol, along with the South African and Mozambique governments, will invest R1,1-billion to expand natural gas delivery to South Africa by 20%. The additional gas will be used under the first phase of Sasol’s planned 20% expansion of its synthetic fuel capacity at Secunda over the next eight years.
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/ 5 February 2008
The Scorpions are the country’s last effective corruption-busting unit and disbanding them will affect the fight against organised crime, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Tuesday. ”Every time special units were integrated [into the police] it has impacted on the ability to fight crime in that area,” party spokesperson Tertius Delport said.
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/ 5 February 2008
Rebels from Sudan’s Darfur region said on Tuesday that their fighters were engaged in Chad, but they were fighting Sudanese army forces that were backing rebels trying to oust Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno. The Chad army earlier said it repulsed an attack by Sudanese forces and rebels on a frontier town on the Chad-Sudan border on Sunday.
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/ 5 February 2008
China is debating whether to relax control of the internet during the Olympics, allowing access to banned websites such as the BBC, a spokesperson for the organising committee said on Tuesday. Plans to tear down the so-called Great Firewall of China were being debated and a decision was expected soon.
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/ 5 February 2008
Torrential rain forced the abandonment of Tuesday’s tri-series limited-overs match between Sri Lanka and India at the Gabba in Brisbane. It was the second match in a row that had fallen victim to the foul weather after Sunday’s opening game between India and Australia was also washed out.