All permits are in order at the Heilbron game farm in the Free State where a Bengal tiger attacked a child and her father over the weekend, environmental officials said on Monday. ”There is no problem with the camps, fences or permits,” said Werner Boing, spokesperson on biodiversity compliance at the local department of environmental affairs.
Kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston has appeared in a frightening new video, saying he is wearing a bomb belt that his Gaza captors will detonate if there is any attempt to rescue him. ”As you can see I’ve been dressed in what is an explosive belt …,” says Johnston, wearing a number of packages strapped around his chest.
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor failed to appear in court on Monday when his war-crimes trial resumed, saying through an official the court did not give him adequate funds to assemble a strong defence team. Taylor, who is charged with instigating murder, rape and mutilation during Sierra Leone’s civil war, boycotted the start of his trial in June.
The JSE remained lower across the board at noon on Monday on inflation worries ahead of data releases later in the week. Weaker overseas markets — after a sharp fall in New York on Friday — added to the bearish undertone. At noon, the all-share index was off 0,72%. Resources fell 0,76%, the gold- and platinum-mining indices gave up 0,25% and 0,99% respectively.
Lawyers for Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool on Monday called for the recusal of most of the members of a special committee probing whether he misled his legislature. The committee, which was to have begun formal hearings on Monday morning, was postponed indefinitely following the application.
A group of women on Monday staged a peaceful demonstration outside the South African embassy in Harare to demand the inclusion of civic rights groups in South African-mediated talks on the Zimbabwe crisis. The women hung posters on the security fence surrounding the embassy in northern Harare.
Twelve years ago, Hulamin was valued at R600-million within the Tongaat-Hulett Group, as it was known then. On Monday, the specialised aluminium manufacturer listed as a standalone entity on the JSE with a market capitalisation of more than R8-billion. The listing also signals a new beginning for Tongaat Hulett
South Africa’s edition of the world-spanning Live Earth concerts, a fund-raising event on July 7 to combat global warming, will be held at the Coca-Cola Dome in Northgate, Johannesburg, not at Maropeng at the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site as previously reported.
A suicide bomber killed 18 people and wounded 40 others when he rammed a fuel tanker into protective walls outside a police headquarters in Iraq’s northern oil city of Baiji on Monday, police said. In a separate attack, eight people died and 31 were wounded when a suicide car bomber struck outside the governor’s office in the Shi’ite city of Hilla.
A wind-driven wildfire destroyed at least 165 homes and other structures and scorched 304ha just south-west of Lake Tahoe in California, a spokesperson for the El Dorado county sheriff’s department said. ”This thing is raging out of control, and there’s no estimate as to when that may change,” a police spokesperson said late on Sunday.