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/ 14 November 2006
Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a Republican who guided his city through the chaos of the September 11 attacks, has taken a key step towards a possible 2008 United States presidential run. Giuliani has filed papers in New York state to set up a committee to explore a possible candidacy, although an aide said Monday he has not made up his mind.
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/ 14 November 2006
Only slightly more than one out of 10 South Africans with bank accounts have used their cellphones for banking, according to research released by World Wide Worx on Tuesday. A surprising finding from the research is that the youth market is the least likely to have tried cellphone banking.
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/ 14 November 2006
South Africa will press on with its mediating role in Burundi to get the last active rebel group to sign a peace accord, Pretoria’s special envoy to the Great Lakes region said on Tuesday. "We are not throwing in the towel. We will carry on," Kingsley Mamabola told a seminar, adding that the National Liberation Forces rebel group was "the one piece left out of the jigsaw puzzle".
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/ 14 November 2006
Zambia’s Supreme Court has rejected a petition by two death-row inmates who sought the abolition of capital punishment on the grounds that it went against ”Christian values”. ”The courts in this country have no powers to abolish the death penalty because they do not have power to legislate,” the Supreme Court said in a judgement passed late on Monday.
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/ 14 November 2006
Drug prices have increased in the past five years despite a commitment by the World Trade Organisation’s 149 members to make them more accessible to the world’s poor, Médécins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Tuesday. MSF said that newer HIV medicines can cost up to 50 times more than the cheapest first-line treatments.
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/ 14 November 2006
The state is eyeing the end of July next year as a trial date for the travel agents and politicians charged in the alleged parliamentary travel voucher fraud case. This emerged during a brief appearance by the remaining 12 accused in the Cape High Court on Tuesday.
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/ 14 November 2006
The South African Reserve Bank has found in its latest Labour Market Frontiers survey that earnings in South Africa’s formal sector have risen slightly in real terms since 1994, driven by an increase in the earnings of skilled workers, while the earnings of unskilled and semi-skilled workers remained flat.
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/ 14 November 2006
South Africa currently earns about R270-million from medical tourism, said Dr Tshepo Maaka, the managing director of Serokolo Health Tourism. Maaka said the country was increasingly being seen as a destination for medical tourism and cited factors such as its highly trained doctors, and excellent medical care.
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/ 14 November 2006
The trial of former Zimbabwean Test cricketer Mark Vermeulen, charged with arson attacks on the Zimbabwe Cricket Association’s boardroom and training academy, was adjourned until next month by a court in Harare on Tuesday. Magistrate Omega Mugumbate agreed to a defence application for the adjournment in order to allow leading lawyer Eric Matinenga to free up his schedule.
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/ 14 November 2006
A task team has been appointed to improve the state of South Africa’s mines, the Chamber of Mines said on Tuesday. ”As our gold mines are relatively old, more work needs to be done in order to achieve our goal of reaching international standards in 2013,” said the chamber’s senior executive, Frans Barker, in Johannesburg.