Photographs of the gruesome scene where a Soweto woman died in an explosion allegedly forming part of the Boeremag’s violent coup plot were shown to the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday. Colour photos of the scene where Claudia Mokone died on October 29 2002 formed part of a bundle of photos handed in by the state.
Mobile service provider MTN and Infront Sports & Media have signed an exclusive agreement for soccer’s showpiece in Germany in 2006. The rights granted are in the category of Mobile Telephony and give MTN the right to provide video material from each match on mobile phones during the 2006 World Cup.
The top 16 floors of a 24-storey office block collapsed in central Lagos on Wednesday, blocking the main commercial street through one of Africa’s biggest cities and leaving at least one dead and 24 injured. The building had been weakened by a fire that swept the structure earlier in the week.
Nigeria’s first national headcount in 15 years headed into a second day on Wednesday amid clashes between police and vigilantes, attacks on counters and protests by disgruntled census workers. Nigeria is recognised as Africa’s most populous country but has never conducted an uncontested census.
One of Italy’s top executives was caught speeding on a motorway in northern Italy at 311kph while trying out his new car, the press reported on Saturday. Riccardo Ruggiero runs Telecom Italia, the country’s main telecoms operator with a turnover of €30-billion last year.
Polish education inspectors have banned a CD with a painting by Hieronymus Bosch reproduced on its cover from being distributed in schools, saying the picture, entitled <i>Hell</i>, could harm young people. "There are pornographic scenes in the Bosch picture that can damage people," said one school inspector.
Calls for abortion laws across Africa to be revised have dominated the first days of a meeting in Ethiopia — the Regional Consultation on Unsafe Abortion in Africa. More than 140 researchers, key government officials and health practitioners from 16 African countries have gathered in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa.
Mohammad Yousuf scored a stylish half-century on Wednesday to propel Pakistan to a comfortable four-wicket win against Sri Lanka in the third limited-overs international and a series sweep. Yousuf backed up Shahid Afridi’s haul of 3-37, and knocks of 46 runs each by opening batsmen Shoaib Malik and Imran Farhat.
The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) says it fears people will stop donating blood after one of its employees told a donor recently that she was HIV-positive as a "joke". Nicolette Duda, communications officer for the SANBS, said on Wednesday: "We definitely don’t want this thing in the media now."
The head boy of a rural high school in the northern Free State has lost his title after allegedly sexually harassing schoolgirls, Die Volksblad newspaper reported on Wednesday. The boy among other things apparently sent photographs of himself naked to some of these girls with his cellphone, according to the report.