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/ 7 September 2007
A 10-hour operation to separate conjoined twins Danielle and Danika Lowton is currently under way at the Arwyp Medical Centre Private Hospital in Kempton Park, spokesperson Henry du Plooy confirmed on Friday. Only four operations of this nature, namely the separation of conjoined twins, have ever been carried out in South Africa.
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/ 7 September 2007
Niren Tolsi speaks to writer and culture producer Peter Machen about his new book on Durban.
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/ 7 September 2007
<b>COMEDY OF THE WEEK</b>: Shaun de Waal is ambivalent about <i>I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry</i>.
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/ 7 September 2007
Pakistan’s Shoaib Akhtar has been sent home from the Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa after a bust up with teammate Mohammad Asif. The incident occurred in the nets on Thursday when a heated argument led to the 32-year-old Akhtar striking his fellow fast bowler on the thigh with a bat.
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/ 7 September 2007
Air crews planned to search a vast area of the Nevada and California desert for a fifth day on Friday in the hope of spotting missing United States adventurer Steve Fossett. Two aircraft equipped with infrared technology flew throughout Thursday night looking for the 63-year-old millionaire and aviation record-setter.
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/ 7 September 2007
The death toll from a suicide bomb attack in the Algerian town of Batna has risen to 19, the government of the north African country said on Friday. The blast also wounded 107 people, according to an interior ministry statement carried by the official APS news agency. The previous official toll was 14 killed and 60 wounded.
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/ 7 September 2007
In a bid to ease widespread shortages of goods, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government on Friday announced it was allowing retailers to raise prices by 20%. ”Effectively, the prices of all goods and services that have not been reviewed since June 18 2007 go up by 20%,” the government mouthpiece Herald newspaper said.
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/ 7 September 2007
South African media company Sabido, the holding company of locally based television station e.tv, has acquired 49% of Gaborone Broadcasting Company (GBC), e.tv said in a statement on Friday. Fifty-one percent of GBC was held by Mike Klinck, a Botswana banker, who acquired the station four years ago.
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/ 7 September 2007
The Democratic Alliance (DA) is looking at the legality of the Tshwane metro council’s reported ban on ”white businesses”, and the matter could even end up in the Constitutional Court, DA leader Helen Zille said on Friday. ”Such a resolution amounts to naked racism and flies in the face of the Constitution,” she said in her weekly online newsletter, SA Today.
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/ 7 September 2007
United States President George Bush, who reportedly once told aides he dislikes the "small talk in big rooms" of summitry, seemed not entirely sure on Friday which world leader gathering was going. Opening the keynote speech of his visit to Sydney, Bush thanked Australian Prime Minister John Howard "for being such a fine host for the Opec summit’.