Three gunmen robbed pupils at Johannesburg’s Parktown Boys’ High of 12 cellphones, five watches and cash, police said on Tuesday. The three, one of them armed with a handgun, stormed into the Grade 11 class at 1.45pm on Monday, ordered the pupils and their teacher to lie down and took their possessions, Inspector Mosima Manganye said.
Having starved himself and been frozen in ice, United States magician David Blaine now plans to spend seven days submerged in a water-filled container in New York. The latest stunt by the renowned illusionist will seem him enter a 2.,m high acrylic sphere on May 1 and remain submerged for a week.
One in 10 people who take anti-retrovirals will experience difficulties with the medication or their bodies will reject it completely. This was heard in Cape Town on Tuesday at Microbicides 2006, the first international conference held in Africa into research into gels that could prevent HIV transmission in women.
South African health-care group Netcare has acquired a controlling interest in the leading private hospital operator in the United Kingdom — General Healthcare Group (GHG) — from BC Partners. GHG is the leading provider of private acute care in the UK with a national network of 49 hospitals. Its facilities and doctor base enable it to offer a comprehensive range of medical and surgical services across the UK, Netcare said on Tuesday.
Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard warned on Tuesday that his side are on the rise and will be better equipped than ever to challenge Chelsea for next year’s Premiership title. ”We have progressed a lot in the last year,” said Gerrard. ”The gap was 35 points last season, this time around we are better than half that. We have got a fantastic manager [Rafael Benitez] who is going to continue to build.”
Michael Schumacher has been offered another lucrative two-year contract extension at Ferrari, seemingly ensuring that he ends his career at the famed Italian Formula One team and doesn’t move elsewhere. Bild said that Schumacher will earn the same annual â,¬35-million he gets under the current four-year deal he signed in 2003.
Athletics South Africa (ASA) on Tuesday announced that top marathon runner Gert Thys has been suspended from all athletics competitions, pending a resolution of his anti-doping case. ASA was advised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) that Thys’s urine sample collected on March 12 at the Seoul International Marathon contained the prohibited substance Norandrosterone.
The JSE was in negative territory in noon trade on Tuesday, dragged down by widespread profit-taking. Weakness in heavyweight dual-listed stocks offshore further weighed on the local bourse. By 12.04pm, the all-share and all-share industrial indices shed 0,5% and 0,51% respectively.
By month-end Zimbabwe’s year-to-year inflation rate will have topped 1 000%, according to calculations by the regionally represented Imara financial-services group. Fungai Tarirah, chief investment officer of Harare-based Imara Asset Management Zimbabwe, says inflation benchmarking by some of the country’s larger companies actually puts the rate as high as 1 600%.
The increase in South Africa’s consumer price index excluding mortgage rate changes (CPIX) for metro and other areas eased to 3,8% year-on-year (y/y) in March after increasing by 4,5% y/y in February, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday.