Two people were arrested on Monday in connection with the murder of Cape theatre personality Taliep Petersen, said police spokesperson Superintendent Billy Jones. A 45-year-old woman was arrested at about 7.40pm at her house in Athlone and a 41-year-old man was arrested at 8.30pm in the Strandfontein area.
A senator is proposing a modest step to improve the efficiency of food aid donations from the United States, but the plan falls short of the Bush administration’s vision for reform. The US would spend -million over four years on pilot projects to vet aid donations that use crops purchased in developing countries.
A company in eastern China was ordered to stop production after food safety officials found it was repackaging the filling from two-year-old rice dumplings. Officials in east China’s Anhui province ordered a recall of all ”zongzi”, a traditional snack made of glutinous rice and other fillings usually wrapped in bamboo leaves.
Portugal’s Foreign Minister Luis Amado said on Monday Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe would not be welcome at a European Union-African Union summit being held in November in Lisbon. ”Personally I have no interest in Mugabe coming to Lisbon,” Amado said.
South Africa flanker Joe Van Niekerk signed a three-year contract with English rugby club Northampton on Monday. Van Niekerk, capped 46 times by the Springboks since 2001, will start with Northampton depending on next month’s announcement of South Africa’s World Cup squad.
A small group of striking public servants were protesting outside the premises the Public Service Coordinating Bargaining Council on Tuesday. Government and labour negotiators were scheduled to meet at the council’s office in Centurion, south of Pretoria, later on Tuesday afternoon.
Top detective Piet Byleveld says a bouncer has pledged a bounty of R500 000 to have him killed, media reports said on Tuesday. Superintendent Byleveld said the plot to have him assassinated before he could testify against the bouncer was hatched in the Johannesburg prison.
For those of an inquisitive disposition, Sweden has long been a paradise. Thanks to its long tradition of openness, tabloid journalists, employers and ordinary nosey parkers are legally able to access information on the salaries and tax bills of their fellow countrymen.
Vilma Espin, the wife of acting Cuban president Raul Castro and one of the most powerful women in Cuba long before her husband took over office from his convalescing brother Fidel Castro, died on June 18. She was 77. State-run television said Espin died from complications from a long illness.
Astronauts on the International Space Station and visiting space shuttle Atlantis said goodbye on Monday as they closed the hatch between their two ships in preparation for the shuttle’s departure on Tuesday. The space travellers spoke warm words of friendship and shook hands before the seven Atlantis crewmembers floated into their spacecraft.