United Nations said hospitals were still overcrowded and lacked basic supplies to treat the mass of injured. The death toll rose to 6Â 234 while the number of those hurt in the disaster more than doubled to about 46Â 000, with more than 33Â 000 of them suffering serious injuries.
Africa’s largest steel producer Mittal Steel SA will cut 800 jobs through voluntary severance packages by the end of 2006, CEO Davinder Chugh said on Thursday. Of these 800 jobs, about 350 will be at the company’s largest plant at Vanderbijlpark. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Thursday it was outraged at Mittal’s plan.
Kelly Fletcher speaks to defunct band Fetish about why they’ve chosen this moment to release their old demos.
<b>CDs OF THE WEEK:</b> Lloyd Gedye takes a listen to two debut albums from the new crop of South African rock.
Charges of plagiarism reflect the ascendance of a legalistic discourse rooted in the English-speaking tradition, writes Rosalind Morris.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> From the director of <i>American Pie</i>, <i>American Dreamz</i> has enough intelligence embedded in its concept and script to lift it above the level of mere gross-out, writes Shaun de Waal.
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A group of 350 ”pioneers” leave for Germany on Tuesday as the advance guard of approximately 2 500 South African soccer fans. ”We’ll be handling the arrangements for approximately  1500 of the total number,” said Nazeer Camaroodeen, managing-director of the company which acts as the travel agent for the South African Football Association.
South African platinum miner Impala Platinum Holdings said on Thursday that its subsidiary Zimplats has reached agreement with Zimbabwe government that creates the platform for further large scale investments in the company. Zimplats signed an agreement with the government relating to the release of a portion of its mining claims in exchange for a combination of empowerment credits and cash.
Doctors were set to begin the reconstruction on Thursday of the face of a four-year-old Kenyan boy who was mauled by dogs when he was an abandoned newborn. Daniel Wachira, who lost much of the left half of his face in the attack, was expected to be in surgery for about 11 hours to reconstruct his jaw with one of his ribs.
William M Gumede responds to accusations of plagiarism.