Surging energy prices pushed consumer inflation in the United States up by the largest amount in nearly a year in March. Meanwhile, industrial output fell for the second time in the past three months, reflecting a big drop in production at the nation’s utilities because of the warmer-than-usual weather.
Chaos erupted in a small village in rural Malawi on Tuesday when Madonna and the one-year-old boy she hopes to adopt arrived at the orphanage where she found him. Scores of international and local journalists tried to force their way into the orphanage to get closer to Madonna, and were confronted by about 500 angry orphans.
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Addressing the Cape Town Press Club on Tuesday, former deputy president Jacob Zuma pledged not to withdraw legal action he has instituted against members of the media. He also said he would accept nomination for a leadership position at the ANC’s national conference near the end of this year.
International security giant Group 4 Securicor (G4S) must respect its workers’ basic rights or forget about 2010 World Cup contracts, said unionists on Tuesday. ”If they continue their abuses … we will make sure they do not see a god-darned contract in 2010,” said South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union general secretary Randall Howard.
Flood waters swirled through low-lying communities and evacuated residents waited for rivers to crest early on Tuesday as a spring storm blamed for at least 15 deaths nationwide lingered in the United States Northeast for a third day. The storm left a huge swathe of devastation, from the beaches of South Carolina to the mountains of Maine.
Both the number of malaria cases and deaths caused by it have decreased in Mpumalanga over the past seven years, the provincial health department said on Tuesday. There has been a steady drop in cases and a ”pleasing decline” in deaths since 2000/01, according to statistics released by the department.
Hours after Transport Minister Jeff Radebe gave the upgraded transport information system the ”all clear” on Tuesday, vehicle testing and licensing stations in Johannesburg and Pretoria were still not up and running on Tuesday. Tshwane metro spokesperson Alta Fourie said the system was going on and off.
It was all about Paul Canning on the morning of day two of the Quiksilver Pro Africa at Durban’s New Pier on Tuesday. Surfing in the last heat of the round of 192, ”PC” went ballistic in his heat to win convincingly against Australian Paul Parkes in a high-scoring heat. The Durban goofy-footer found form and won convincingly.
A Port Elizabeth housewife who was arrested for ”loitering with the intent to commit prostitution” is to seek compensation in the city’s high court next week. Media reports on Tuesday said that the claim of Luarika Louise Vermeulen (23) against Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula could amount to R600 000.
What has happened to us that an adult can callously rape a baby? What possesses those who hijack a car and, even after the victim has handed over her keys and money, gratuitously mow her down with her helpless children, or who murder farmers so brutally? What has seemed to strip us of our very humanity so that we jettison our traditional values.