Three Ekurhuleni metro policemen want a court order to ensure that metro police officers and chief Robert McBride do not come within 100m of them. The three — Stanley Segathevan, Patrick Johnstone and Ithumeleng Koko — were at the scene of an accident McBride was involved in last year, when he was allegedly intoxicated.
At least 20 children have died from a diarrhoea outbreak in a Zimbabwe mining town after drinking suspected contaminated water, official media reported on Friday. The Herald newspaper said the children were from the mining town of Kadoma, about 140km west of Harare.
Striking Vodacom employees were outraged that the company had blocked their cellphones, the Communication Workers Union said on Friday. The company said it was employing a ”no work, no pay, and no benefits” policy. Vodacom spokesperson Dot Field said the cellphones were not blocked and the workers were free to insert their own SIM cards into the handsets.
A combination of two experimental Aids drugs can help control the deadly virus in people who are infected with highly resistant forms, an international team of researchers reported on Thursday. The two drugs — called etravirine, or TMC125, and darunavir, or TMC114 — are both made by Tibotec Pharmaceuticals.
The internet often goes through bouts of soul searching, but a full-blown counter-reformation could be on the way. If so, then Andrew Keen, author of <i>The Cult of the Amateur</i>, could be the Martin Luther of the movement. He believes the so-called web 2.0 revolution is leading to "less culture, less reliable news and a chaos of useless information".
By delivering on their promise, and changing the definition of a cellphone. That’s what the original iPod managed in the MP3 player world, filled to that point with players of limited features, lame design and duff PC integration. The cellphone industry is, of course, more mature than the MP3 player industry was in 2001.
An illegal stash of mining explosives was probably to blame for a nightclub blast that killed at least 25 people in north-east China, media reports said on Friday. The explosion ripped through the Liaoning province club, killing at least 25 and injuring 41, including eight young girls holding a birthday party.
A child was born with four legs at the Lebowakgomo hospital outside Polokwane on Thursday night, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reports. Provincial health department spokesperson Phuthi Seloba said: ”This is a very strange case. In the past 10 years in this province we’ve never seen such a case.”
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika asked the army on Thursday to step up attacks on Islamist rebels, saying they were ”enemies of the people”. ”As armed forces commander in chief, I want the fight against residual terrorism doubled in intensity,” the official APS news agency quoted him as saying.
There have been some odd happenings in South African sport during the course of the 21st century. Take the case of cricketer Jacques Rudolph, who made his debut for the Proteas against India in 2001, only for the ICC retrospectively to strip the game of its Test match status.