Lloyd Gedye chats to Harris Tweed about their upcoming international showcase in Texas.
A vicious circle of poverty and disease is placing a huge burden on development in Africa, the African Union commissioner for social affairs said on Friday. Bience Gawanas was speaking at a meeting of the national health council in Sandton. She said a vicious circle existed in which poverty drove up the burden of diseases while ill-health contributed to poverty.
The FBI improperly obtained credit reports and other information on individuals through errors in using its power to investigate terrorism or espionage suspects, the Washington Post reported. The findings prompted an ”incensed” Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to order the FBI to place new safeguards over its use of so-called national-security letters
Zimbabwe’s national intelligence agency on Monday began deploying its secret agents within the army and police to purge officers suspected of backing opposition plans to revolt against the government. Central Intelligence Organisation Director General Happyton Bonyongwe expressed concern over the leakage of sensitive information to the opposition.
Skipper Stirling Mortlock inspired the ACT Brumbies to a much-improved 26-13 Super 14 rugby win over South Africa’s Western Stormers in Canberra on Friday. Mortlock, returning to the game after a succession of head knocks, contributed 16 points as the Brumbies won their first home match of the season by three tries to one.
Video footage showing South Africa’s best-loved rugby players naked, tired, scared and embarrassed violates their right to privacy and dignity and is not for public viewing, the Pretoria High Court ruled on Friday. Judge Pierre Rabie interdicted the organisers of the infamous 2003 Springbok boot camp, Kamp Staaldraad, from publishing or distributing a DVD about the camp.
Five Europeans and eight locals kidnapped in remote north Ethiopia are ”unharmed and safe” in the hands of Afar separatist rebels holding them over the border in Eritrea, an Afar leader said on Friday. The hostages were seized by an armed band eight days ago during a tour of the Afar region.
Two officials from the Regional Centre for Nuclear Studies in Kinshasa have been arrested in a police inquiry over the illegal sale of uranium, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) general prosecutor told Agence France-Presse on Thursday.
Microsoft announced on Thursday its first software licensing deal under a programme mandated by a 2004 European Commission anti-trust ruling. The contract with California-based Quest Software came a week after commission officials accused Microsoft of setting prices too high for technology offered in the Work Group Server Protocol Program.
Sunday Times journalist David Bullard is ”doing very well” and may be moved out of the Milpark Hospital’s intensive-care unit, a hospital spokesperson said on Friday. ”He is doing very well and we are hoping to move him out of intensive care later today,” said Amelda Swartz.