No image available
/ 18 September 2006
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) was eager to meet the newly created inter-ministerial committee on HIV and Aids, TAC spokesperson Nathan Geffen said on Monday. ”We very much want to meet the inter-ministerial committee and the deputy president [Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, who is leading the committee],” Geffen said.
No image available
/ 18 September 2006
A private hospital company will conduct free screenings for heart conditions to anyone visiting their facilities next Thursday. ”We want to make people aware of the risk factors associated with the development of cardio-vascular disease,” Netcare’s chief operations officer Ryan Noach said.
No image available
/ 18 September 2006
The defence in the fraud trial of former national cricketer Garth le Roux and his accountant won an important victory on Monday with a court ruling that will limit the type of evidence the state’s main witness can give. Wynberg Regional Court magistrate Jackie Redelinghuys ruled that the state could not lead opinion evidence on matters of interpretation of law.
No image available
/ 18 September 2006
The Democratic Alliance (DA) will launch an appeal against a decision by the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development not to release a report on a compensation fund for victims of crime, the party said on Monday. The DA’s Dianne Kohler-Barnard said the department turned down an access to information request for a copy of the report.
No image available
/ 18 September 2006
African National Congress (ANC) deputy president Jacob Zuma arrived to cheers and singing at the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) national conference in Midrand on Monday. As Zuma arrived, he greeted VIPs sitting in the front row, including Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
No image available
/ 18 September 2006
An explosion rocked the temporary seat of the weak Somali government on Monday near the Parliament building where the country’s interim president was addressing lawmakers, witnesses said. ”There was an explosion near the Parliament building,” government spokesperson Abdrahman Mohamed Nur Dinari said.
No image available
/ 18 September 2006
Salary negotiations in an attempt to end a protracted strike by contract cleaners have failed again, the National Contract Cleaners’ Association said on Monday. During negotiations under the auspices of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration last Thursday, the 16 labour unions tabled a revised demand.
No image available
/ 18 September 2006
An Iraqi militant group led by al-Qaeda vowed a war against the ”worshippers of the cross” in response to a recent speech by Pope Benedict on Islam that sparked anger across the Muslim world. ”We tell the worshipper of the cross [the pope] that you and the West will be defeated, as is the case in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya,” said a statement by the Mujahideen Shura Council.
No image available
/ 18 September 2006
An elderly nun who was gunned down at the hospital where she worked in Somalia’s capital was ”specifically targeted before being executed by gunmen lying in wait”, a hospital official said on Monday. Willy Huber, regional director of the Austrian-funded hospital where 65-year-old Sister Leonella had worked for four years, said the killing was not random.
No image available
/ 18 September 2006
New World Matchplay champion Paul Casey has told European captain Ian Woosnam he is ready to play all five matches in the Ryder Cup match against the United States that starts on Friday at Ireland’s K Club. Casey won the World Matchplay final against Shaun Micheel 10 and 8 playing 124 holes in four days, a record low for the tournament winner.