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Pakistan’s World Cup cricketers provided DNA samples on Friday as Jamaican police probed the murder of their coach Bob Woolmer and awaited results of tests on his body for more clues on how he died. The chairperson of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Nasim Ashraf, stressed no member of the Pakistan team was suspected by police of Woolmer’s murder on Sunday.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has dismissed claims that his rule was in its last throes, while a longtime critic renewed calls for a peaceful campaign to oust him. Vice-President Joyce Mujuru and South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, meanwhile, met on Friday in what was described as a private visit.
Countless litres of Chinese honey already consumed in South Africa over the past four years were contaminated with a dangerous antibiotic suspected of causing liver cancer and a potentially fatal rare blood disorder. The possible side effects of the antibiotic chloramphenicol are so serious that it is usually prescribed by doctors only for severe infections.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales attended a meeting last November that discussed the imminent enacting of a plan to fire United States federal prosecutors, the Justice Department said in documents released on Friday. The documents showed a much greater involvement for Gonzales than previously acknowledged in the controversial dismissal of eight prosecutors.
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Some of the biggest hitters in the World Cup will take aim at the short Warner Park boundaries on Saturday in the final Group A match between Australia and South Africa. The ground has already assumed a special place in cricket history after South Africa’s Herschelle Gibbs struck six sixes in an over against The Netherlands.
A 30-year-old man suspected of digging up his mother’s grave in rural North West was remanded in custody by the Mogwase Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Albert Kgwatisi, of Moruleng near Mogwase, was arrested on Wednesday. He had allegedly dug open his mother’s grave and removed two teeth from the skull.
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) authorities charged opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba with ”high treason” Friday on a second day of clashes which reports said had killed at least seven people. The former vice-president had sought refuge in the South African embassy late on Thursday after heavy fighting broke out.
World football’s governing body Fifa on Friday gave the thumbs up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, saying its doubts about security and logistics for the event have been dispelled. ”South Africa, we trust you,” Fifa President Sepp Blatter announced after a meeting of governing-body chiefs.
About 350 workers at Nissan South Africa and members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) protested against retrenchments outside the Japanese embassy in Pretoria on Friday. Nissan SA has given 410 of its workers retrenchment packages, with effect from April 12.
New approaches and tools in dealing with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) must be sought, the South African branch of international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) said on Friday. ”MDR and now [extensively-drug resistant] TB are the tip of an iceberg of failing strategies to control TB,” the organisation said.