It is important that people are well informed about just what to do in an accident. When an accident happens, people often make mistakes and forget to do the basics because they’re so traumatised, says Caroline da Silva, head of commercial underwriting at Santam.
Swine fever has been detected at Uitenhage in the Nelson Mandela Metro and about a thousand pigs will be culled this week, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Wednesday. Road blocks have been set up around KwaNobuhle in Uitenhage in an effort to contain it, but this measure does not seem to work as the disease has continued to spread throughout the province.
Property in the vicinity of Rosebank, Park and Sandton railway stations will be the first to be expropriated to make way for the Gautrain line, the Gauteng government said on Tuesday. Land in Midrand will also be expropriated for the construction of the maintenance depot and land in Marlboro for the tunnel portal.
Sony will delay the launch of the PlayStation 3 by half a year until November, a report said on Wednesday, boosting Microsoft’s efforts to win a bigger share of the multibillion-dollar video game industry. The next-generation home video game console is one of Sony’s core products and its success against Microsoft’s already-launched Xbox 360 is considered vital to its revival after a profit slump.
In his office in Peshawar’s historic Mohabat Khan mosque, prayer leader Maulana Yousaf Qureshi smoothes his beard from the white roots to the henna-orange tips. "There’s no time limit. If someone kills the cartoonist in 50 years he will still get the million dollars," he says.
Black ownership of companies trading on the JSE remained at only 7%, Business Report said on Wednesday. It quoted the BusinessMap Foundation as saying this figure was about 18% points off the government’s 2014 ownership target of 25%.
Ambitious plans to reform the United Nations in the wake of the oil-for-food scandal and the Iraq schism have yet to amount to much. But one issue on which world leaders attending last September’s summit in New York did agree was the need to strengthen UN monitoring, protection and enforcement of universal standards of human rights.
Wanted former Zimbabwean opposition MP Roy Bennett is believed to have fled to South Africa, Harare’s Herald newspaper reported on Wednesday. Bennett — sought by police in connection with the recent discovery of an arms cache in Mutare — was said to have skipped the country via Mozambique.
Criticising the hit United States television series South Park for being offensive is a bit like criticising Antiques Roadshow for focusing too much on old things. But this has not prevented the soul singer Isaac Hayes from quitting the show in outrage at its treatment of Scientology — ending a nine-year association with a cartoon that has left few other religious or political groups unmocked.
The Pentagon is trying to develop ”insect cyborgs” able to sniff out explosives, or ”bug” conversations by lurking unseen in enemy hideouts with micro-transmitters strapped to their bodies. The cyborgs — half insect, half robot — would be created by inserting tiny devices into the bodies of flying, hopping or crawling insects while in their larva or pupa stage.