Some South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) content is tripe. But depending on your view, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. At least, that’s what emerged at a Johannesburg colloquium held by the public broadcaster last week. One speaker referred to tripe as a delicacy in his culture.
Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert prepared on Wednesday to form a coalition to fix Israel’s final borders after his Kadima party won an election which has dramatically redrawn the political landscape. With nearly all votes counted, Kadima was poised to emerge the largest party in parliament only four months after its creation by Olmert’s coma-stricken mentor Ariel Sharon, although it did not secure enough seats to govern alone.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma could take the stand in his rape trial on Monday after the Johannesburg High Court turned down an application to have the case discharged on Wednesday. Asked if his client would take the stand when the trial resumed, Zuma’s lawyer Kemp J Kemp would not give a direct answer.
Saudi security forces discovered and disarmed explosive devices planted in two separate vehicles near Saudi Arabia’s largest oil refinery, Abqaiq, the Saudi newspaper al-Riyadh reported on Wednesday. The paper said security forces broke into a house in al-Muntaar town on Tuesday to find two booby-trapped cars with the company’s logo on them.
Solidarity and the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) have given Telkom a 4pm (Wednesday) ultimatum to withdraw a plan to give improved profit-sharing only to workers who did not participate in this week’s two-day strike. ”If Telkom fails to heed this notice, court documents will be served on Telkom at 4pm and the trade unions will go to court.”
Nigeria captured former Liberian leader and warlord Charles Taylor on Wednesday and deported him towards Monrovia, where United Nations peacekeepers were waiting to arrest him on charges of crimes against humanity. West Africa’s most notorious fugitive was flown out of the northern city of Maiduguri on board a Nigerian presidential jet.
Former United States president Bill Clinton this week said he supports mandatory HIV testing in countries with high prevalence.
Huddled in a draughty football stadium, about 2Â 000 Rwandans braved hours of torrential rain to watch the screening of the latest movie on their country’s 1994 genocide, Shooting Dogs. Survivors were in the audience at the film’s Rwanda premiere, braving their own memories more than a decade after hundreds of thousands were slaughtered in a 100-day bloodbath.
Six-year-old Shino Katagiri does not start primary school until April, but her mother is already putting her into classes — on how to defend herself against violent attackers. As an adult self-defence instructor plays the bad guy, the terrified little girl huddles into a chair and refuses to take part in the lesson her mother has brought her to.
Paralysed rats who received transplants of adult mouse brain stem cells were able to partially restore limb movement, researchers said in Wednesday’s issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Called neuronal precursors, the stem cells from the brains of adult mice are able to transform themselves into cells of the central nervous system and other tissues.