Six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with Aids launched their final appeal on Wednesday after more than eight years behind bars for a crime they say they did not commit. As the hearing opened, relatives of the victims rallied outside the Tripoli courtroom, holding up pictures of their infected children.
Three suspects will appear in court on Thursday in connection with the murder of Cape Town theatre personality Taliep Petersen, police said. Superintendent Billy Jones said a third suspect was arrested on Tuesday afternoon after hours of being held for questioning. The suspect is a 34-year-old man from the Athlone area of Cape Town.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation has not arranged to meet the Premier Soccer League (PSL) to discuss the rights to televise local soccer matches, both parties said on Wednesday. ”We’ve received nothing official from them, so I can’t comment,” said PSL chairperson Irvin Khoza.
Former Arsenal midfielder Patrick Vieira believes the London club must splash out on some big name players if they want to prevent Thierry Henry from being lured to a major club in Europe. Henry has been consistently linked with a move to Barcelona, despite insisting he wants to remain at the Emirates Stadium.
It features FC Barcelona — one of the most powerful and charismatic teams on the planet — in one of the most talked about club soccer matches played in South Africa in years. But lingering misgivings surround Wednesday night’s highly anticipated showpiece at Loftus, revolving mainly around how Mamelodi Sundowns will fare against daunting opposition.
The JSE retained its strong tone at noon on Wednesday, led higher by miners, which were being buoyed by better metals prices, while futures-related buying ahead of the close-out on Thursday provided additional support. At noon, the all-share index was up 0,89%. Resources firmed 1,34%, while the gold and platinum mining indices gained 1,34% and 2,21% respectively.
Personal identity has taken on a new meaning in the digital age, where basic facts like your name, address or age are far less important to some people than the collected records of what you were looking at online. United States marketers will nearly double their spending on such advertising to -billion next year from -million in 2007.
A 47-year-old South Korean man has been arrested for faking his death with the help of his wife in an attempt to elude police on his trail over a theft, a news report said on Wednesday. Police had had difficulty hunting down the suspected burglar, identified only by his last name, Chung, as all official records showed him dead for the past three years.
A horse was detained by police on Tuesday during an arrest operation over the theft of a vehicle in South Africa’s Soweto township. "We have apprehended a horse and two suspects for being in possession of a suspected stolen vehicle," police spokesperson Captain Lindiwe Mbatha said.
Disgraced former Wallaby Wendell Sailor will sign for Australian rugby league side St George Illawarra when his ban for drug use expires, it was reported Wednesday. The 32-year-old tested positive for cocaine after playing for the NSW Waratahs in a Super 14 match against the ACT Brumbies in April last year.