Strings may be an unexpected addition to Chris McGregor’s jazz, but his music was always about expansion, writes Shaun de Waal.
Parallel trials for Aids vaccines in South Africa look promising in their long road to conclusion, a press conference in Sandton heard on Friday. Indications are that vaccine trials tailored for global strains had an effect against the strain of the virus most prevalent in South Africa.
At least eight people were killed and more than 100 injured when a packed passenger train ploughed into a slow-moving train on Thursday in a northern suburb of Rio de Janeiro. Officials said the death toll could go higher. ”It is a tragedy,” said fire department chief Pedro Marcos.
It is credible that Azanian People’s Organisation’s (Azapo) president Mosibudi Mangena is too busy to hand over his gun, despite leading a campaign against guns, said Azapo on Friday. ”As a president of the party … with such [a] busy schedule, not having had time to hand over his gun as yet is not [an] inconceivable and unreasonable excuse,” it said.
An Indian farmer who has fathered his 21st child at the ripe old age of 90 says he wants to carry on having children until he is 100 — but his wife is throwing in the towel. Nanu Ram Jogi is revered by the menfolk of Paanchimli village in the western desert state of Rajasthan where the nonagenarian lives with 109 members of his extended family.
Russia plans to send a manned mission to the moon by 2025 and wants to build a permanent base there shortly after, the head of Russian space agency Roskosmos said on Friday. ”According to our estimates, we will be ready for a manned flight to the Moon in 2025,” Roskosmos chief Anatoly Perminov told reporters.
An oil tanker truck rolled down a hill and smashed into four minibuses in Kenya, killing 29 people and injuring more than 30, police said on Friday. The tanker’s driver had stopped to refuel on Thursday when the vehicle started rolling, police chief Grace Kaindi said in Kisii, about 270km west of the capital, Nairobi.
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There’s no question that great athletes take their sports to the level of art. But as the French host the Rugby World Cup, they’re pushing that concept a step further by bringing rugby into an art museum. It’s a genteel Parisian touch to a sport more often associated with muscle, body-crunching tackles.
The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) said on Friday it was ”angered” by Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula saying the integration of metro police forces into the South African Police Service (SAPS) was inevitable. On Thursday, Nqakula told a media briefing at Parliament that no one could stop the incorporation of metro police into the SAPS.
Forest fires that have devastated southern Greece and claimed 63 lives in eight days died down on Friday, but emergency services feared a new heatwave could rekindle some blazes. ”Things are going well,” a fire-service spokesperson said, adding that the fires were no longer threatening populated areas.