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/ 9 September 2006
Three HIV-positive prisoners are known to have died in Durban’s Westville Prison since the Department of Correctional Services was challenged in the courts over its antiretroviral treatment programme, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) said on Friday.
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/ 9 September 2006
Michael Schumacher’s position as a Formula One icon, the most successful driver in the history of the sport, is assured. Whether Ferrari’s seven-times world champion is also the greatest is another question, one guaranteed to trigger endless debate long after the ever-controversial German has finally left the stage.
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/ 9 September 2006
Michael Schumacher, the most successful Formula One driver of all time, said on Sunday that he was retiring from the sport at the end of the season. Ferrari announced the German’s decision just minutes after Schumacher won the Italian Grand Prix. ”It has been a really tough decision not to work together at this level but I knew that one day it had to come,” Schumacher told a post-race news conference.
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/ 8 September 2006
Tony Yengeni is not receiving preferential treatment at Malmesbury prison, the acting head of the Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons said on Friday. ”Our conclusion is that he was treated no different to any other offender in that [hospital] section,” said Cape High Court Judge Nathan Erasmus.
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/ 8 September 2006
Blasting at a building site near Mdantsane, East London, has been stopped after a hospital patient was killed by a flying rock, the Department of Labour said on Friday. The woman was fatally wounded on Wednesday when a stone fell through the roof of the Nkqubela Tuberculosis hospital ward and hit her on the head.
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/ 8 September 2006
Fifty female inmates who stripped naked to protest against being transferred to another prison intend stepping up their action by going on a hunger strike, a prisoners’ organisation said on Friday. The protest was sparked by a pending transfer to another prison further away from the prisoners’ families.
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/ 8 September 2006
At least 31 people, mostly worshippers at weekly Islamic prayers, were killed and up to 75 injured in a series of explosions in a Muslim-majority town in western India on Friday, police said. The blasts came days after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that intelligence agencies had warned of more terrorist attacks across the country.
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/ 8 September 2006
Crude oil prices reversed their slide on Friday after dropping below a barrel on a United States inventory report showing that higher refinery production was helping boost gasoline and distillate inventories. Light, sweet crude for October delivery gained 10 cents to ,42 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange by midday in Europe.
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/ 8 September 2006
An attempt to get cellular operator Vodacom to pay for dropped calls was dismissed in the Johannesburg High Court on Friday. ”We lost … I stuck behind my guns, now I have to move away. The consumer must just carry on paying,” said Jason Blacklock, whose company Cell Check was attempting to recover R18 200 for Hilti SA.
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/ 8 September 2006
The Springboks have downplayed suggestions that Australia will walk into Ellis Park on Saturday as the underdogs for the last match of the Tri-Nations. With the Wallabies coming off a three-week rest and the Springboks in high spirits after their win over New Zealand last Saturday, Springbok captain John Smit said the pressure is on his team to repeat last weekend’s heroics.