The Siamese twin girls born in the Arwyp hospital in Kempton Park on Wednesday night are doing well, the hospital said on Friday night. Hospital superintendent Wiam Stander said the babies will ideally stay in the hospital for the next four to six months while scans and tests are done to facilitate their separation.
A construction worker trapped when a wet concrete slab collapsed was found dead at midnight on Friday after hours of searching. ”Just after midnight we found the body,” Johannesburg emergency services spokesperson Malcolm Midgley said on Saturday. ”He was in several metres of concrete that were starting to set.”
The son of former Cape Town mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo, Onele Mfeketo, was on Friday let off the hook on a shoplifting charge in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court. Mfeketo was scheduled to go on trial, charged with stealing potato crisps, fruit juice and maize meal from the V&A Waterfront’s Pick ‘n Pay in May last year.
Seven members of a fringe religious group were being held in Miami on Friday after being charged with planning a terrorist attack they hoped would be ”greater than 9/11”, starting with the destruction of the United States’s tallest building, the Sears Tower in Chicago. The men are accused of conspiring ”to work under al-Qaeda’s direction and control” to wage war against the US.
Managers can help South Africa overcome such crippling problems as poverty, racial divisions and resistance to gender equality, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. He was addressing members of the Black Management Forum at the forum’s 30th-anniversary celebrations held at Emperor’s Palace near Kempton Park.
The Guantánamo Bay prison regime could be on the verge of closure. Within the past two weeks, United States President George Bush has said three times that he would like to close the camp, but was waiting for direction from the US Supreme Court. ”I’d like it to be over with,” the president said.
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A dubious penalty won and taken by Andriy Shevchenko was enough to see Ukraine through to the next round of the World Cup at their first attempt as they beat 10-man Tunisia 1-0 on Friday. In Group H’s other match, Spain, who also go through to the next round, defeated Saudi Arabia 1-0.
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Friday said there had been no word from South African authorities on a fresh probe into the mysterious death of Mozambique’s first president, Samora Machel, during the apartheid era. ”Sadly enough, we haven’t had an answer as yet,” Guebuza said.
The Zimbabwe government has paid out Z-billion (,4-million) to 206 white farmers whose lands were seized under the land-reform programme, money which the farmers criticise as being too little, reports said on Friday. The total works out at an average of Z,1-billion ( 000) per farmer at the government’s official rate of exchange.
A 16-year-old initiate died in Libode on Friday, bringing to three the number of deaths from illegal circumcisions since the start of the initiation season last week, the Eastern Cape department of health said. ”He died in the bush at an illegal initiation school,” said spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo.