The South African Medical Association (Sama) on Monday withdrew a statement urging a probe into the alleged involvement of Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and Director General of Health Thami Mseleku in the release of a consignment of Rath Foundation anti-Aids food supplements.
Israel could be prepared to free some Palestinian prisoners if militants first release a soldier they seized last month, Interior Minister Roni Bar-On said on Monday. ”If the soldier is released, we could again consider a release of prisoners as we were doing before his abduction,” Bar-On told Israel’s private Channel 10 television network.
Police investigating the hijack bid by University of Cape Town student Tinashe Rioga have given up trying to trace the person who sent him the a series of threatening SMS messages, the Bellville Magistrate’s Court heard on Monday. This emerged in evidence at Rioga’s bail application, on which Magistrate Suzette Marais is to rule on Thursday.
The ”apartheid Israel state” is worse than the apartheid that was conducted in South Africa, Congress of South African Trade Unions president Willie Madisha said on Monday. He said Palestinians were being attacked with heavy machinery and tanks used in war, which had never happened in South Africa.
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal said that accelerating development and service delivery is a greater priority that changing the name of the province. ”We don’t think the question of the name of the province is a priority for now,” the party’s provincial spokesperson Mtholephi Mthimkhulu told the South African Press Association.
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Zinedine Zidane’s World Cup final assault on Marco Materazzi was provoked by a ”very serious” comment made by the Italian defender, according to the French playmaker’s agent. Zidane (34) floored Materazzi with a butt to the chest in the second half of extra-time in Sunday’s final and was sent off, missing a penalty shoot-out.
The editor of the Mail & Guardian newspaper, Ferial Haffajee, was elected chairperson of the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) at its annual general meeting in East London on Monday. Thabo Leshilo, editor of the Sowetan newspaper, was elected deputy chairperson.
The one-day international series between Kenya and Bangladesh originally set for Nairobi later this month has been postponed by a further three weeks due to lack of sponsors, cricket officials said on Monday. Cricket Kenya (CK) chief executive Tom Tikolo said they required about 13-million shillings (Â 000 dollars) to host the Bangladeshi side.
Gerald Majola, Cricket South Africa’s CEO, on Monday announced the appointment of Gordon Templeton as the new media liaison officer for the Proteas team. Templeton replaces Moabi Litheko, who resigned to join the South African Broadcasting Corporation at the end of February, and will start his new position later this month.
Action is needed to stop deaths in initiation schools from ruining the custom, the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities said on Monday. ”We cannot go on like this. One death is [a] loss too many for cultural communities …,” commission chairperson Mongezi Guma said.