The Smit murders of 29 years ago have not been solved, the South African Police Service said on Thursday. Responding to media reports that new information had come to light solving the murders, spokesperson Superintendent Ronnie Naidoo said the police were not aware of the information.
The debut album by Oasis, the band that best spread the Britpop craze of the 1990s, has been voted the greatest album of all time in a major music poll published on Thursday. <i>Definitely Maybe</i> beat <i>Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band</i> by the much-loved Beatles into second place.
Residents in Johannesburg and other inland and KwaZulu-Natal regions who are experiencing gas shortages need not panic because "there will be gas", Colin McClelland, director of the South African Petroleum Industry Association, told the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> on Thursday. "I’m not concerned that people won’t get gas," he said.
Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal has opposed Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’s referendum call, protesting that it would annul the results of the January elections. ”This matter represents a nullification of the legislative institution and an annulment of the outcome of the elections,” Meshaal told the Qatari daily al-Watan.
Scottish champions Celtic have confirmed that they are in talks with South African international Quinton Fortune, aimed at signing the former Manchester United midfielder. Fortune (29) was released by United at the end of the season after an injury plagued seven years at Old Trafford, but he has been recommended to Celtic by his former teammate, Roy Keane.
Lleyton Hewitt and Anastasia Myskina, two players with plenty to prove at the French Open, moved into the third round on Thursday. Hewitt, the former world number one, overcame a difficult first set before seeing off French wildcard Mathieu Montcourt 7-5, 6-3, 6-3 and now faces Slovakian 22nd seed Dominik Hrbaty for a place in the last 16.
Uganda is among six African countries that have met the 2001 United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/Aids and reduced HIV prevalence among young people by 25%, according to the 2006 report on the global Aids epidemic by the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/Aids.
A miner who was trapped almost 3km underground in Gold Fields’ Kloof mine near Westonaria on the West Rand was rescued on Thursday. Company spokesperson Willie Jacobsz said the man was brought to the surface just after 1.30pm. ”We have had very good news,” Jacobsz said.
Zimbabwe’s state-run power company Zesa Holdings has warned of more electricity blackouts over a forex crunch, which is hampering the overhaul of damaged generation and distribution equipment, as the country’s economy teeters on the brink of meltdown.
If you don’t, you probably know somebody who does. With Britain stuffed full of more cellphones than people, connected members of the public are developing an increasing number of ways to fret about their handsets. The result, say experts, is the telecommunications equivalent of phantom limb syndrome, where amputees still feel the sensations of a limb that isn’t there any more.