West-coast shellfish, including mussels, oysters and perlemoen, should not be collected and eaten because they are toxic, the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism warned on Tuesday. Tests on perlemoen collected at Melkbosstrand had revealed low levels of a toxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning.
South African journalist Mark Klusener was ordered to pay 25 000 shekels (about R53 700) and placed under house arrest by a court in Jerusalem on Tuesday, said his wife, Peroshni Govender. Klusener and other staff members were arrested for operating a pirate radio station.
While emerging markets have been resilient so far to global market subprime turmoil, global spillovers could test their resilience, said the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) director of monetary and capital markets, Jaime Caruana, on Tuesday at the launch of the IMF’s latest <i>Global Financial Stability Report</i>.
At one stage they were Absa Premiership title contenders, but now all seventh-placed Wits are playing for is a place in the top half of the competition. And that will rest heavily on their minds when they take on sixth-placed Free State Stars at the Bidvest Stadium on Wednesday night.
More than 60 mostly white Zimbabwean farmers have been evicted from their land by war veterans loyal to President Robert Mugabe since the weekend, a farmers’ union said on Tuesday. ”The situation is very severe. The evictions are continuing right round the country,” Commercial Farmers’ Union president Trevor Gifford said.
South African journalist Mark Klusener was expected to appear in court in Jerusalem on Tuesday following his arrest, his wife Peroshni Govender said. She had been told that he and other staff members were arrested for operating a pirate radio station. Klusener is news director of 93.6 Ram FM, based in Jerusalem.
Uhuru (Freedom) Kenyatta, the son of Mzee Jomo ÂKenyatta, Kenya’s first president, is the candidate anointed by the Gikuyu council of elders to replace Mwai Kibaki. Binyavanga Wainaina finds out why this is and what the contrasts are between the sons of Kenya’s legendary leader.
Consumer confidence in South Africa has fallen to a four-year low, according to the latest consumer confidence index by First National Bank and Stellenbosch University’s Bureau for Economic Research (FNB/BER), released on Tuesday. According to FNB/BER index, consumer confidence declined by 10 index points.
Abbey Makoe, chairperson of the Forum of Black Journalists (FBJ), has lashed out at a South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) finding regarding a controversial FBJ meeting where white journalists were barred based on the colour of their skin, calling it "nothing more than a judicial ambush" and a "banning order".
Monty Python legend John Cleese is to offer his services as a speechwriter to Barack Obama if he wins the Democratic nomination to become United States president, he told a British newspaper on Tuesday. The British comedian, who lives in California, told the Western Daily Press that his jokes could help the Illinois senator get into the White House.