South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) staff and officials will have three days to make submissions to an independent commission probing the public broadcaster’s alleged blacklisting of certain political analysts. Commissioners have set aside this Friday and Saturday and next Monday to hear submissions, an SABC statement read on Monday.
A rarely used mixture of high explosives, fuel oil and ammonium nitrate was used in the Mumbai train blasts last week that killed 182 and wounded hundreds, the lead investigator said on Monday. Anti-Terrorism Squad chief KP Raghuvanshi declined to comment on whether the mixture, which included the high explosive RDX, could be linked to a specific group.
The South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers’ Union (Saccawu) will embark on lunchtime pickets at Shoprite Checkers shops throughout the country from Tuesday. Union chairperson Mike Tau told reporters in Johannesburg on Monday the decision stemmed from the company and the union failing to reach agreement over an across-the-board wage increase.
Stalled peace talks aimed at bringing a final end to Burundi’s 13-year civil war resumed on Monday but prospects for progress remained unclear with mediators silent on the matter. After a weekend of meetings with both the government and the National Liberation Forces rebels aimed at ending a stalemate , mediators reconvened the two sides.
The government’s plan to establish a seventh regional electricity distributor (RED) to take care of the power-supply distribution for all non-metro municipalities may end up "fixing" non-existent problems, says the official opposition Democratic Alliance.
The widespread adoption of male circumcision throughout Africa could avert up to 5,7-million HIV infections by 2026. According to a scientific study published in Public Library of Science Medicine, male circumcision could avert two million new infections and 300 000 deaths over the next 10 years.
At least 250 Zimbabwean medical interns have gone on strike at the financially troubled country’s state hospitals, demanding a more than 700% pay increase, a spokesperson said on Monday. ”The strike started off slowly on Thursday last week, but now everyone has joined in,” said Kudakwashe Nyamutukwa, president of the Hospital Doctors’ Association.
A group of Indian villagers presided over the marriage of two donkeys at an ancient Hindu temple in southern India in a bid to promote world peace, a report said on Monday. The wedding took place on Sunday evening in the Sri Thirumoola Natha Swamy Temple in Tamil Nadu state, the United News of India news agency reported.
Carlos Alberto Parreira, whose future with Brazil is uncertain after the five-time champions were surprisingly eliminated in the quarterfinals of this year’s World Cup in Germany, has re-emerged as an odds-on favourite to be the next coach of Bafana Bafana.
Springbok coach Jake White denied on Monday his job was on the line but admitted his side’s 49-0 thrashing by Australia was the worst he could remember. The South Africans are in Wellington preparing for what might be an even sterner challenge on Saturday against the All Blacks.