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/ 30 January 2006
The 200-plus demonstrators from the student group Concerned Muslims who had gathered in light drizzle at one of central Jakarta’s main roundabouts had a simple message for passing motorists. ”Reject Playboy! Reject Playboy!” they shouted. ”Don’t publish that filth here. Keep the Indonesian nation clean.”
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/ 30 January 2006
Laetitia Rispel, former head of the Gauteng health department, has been appointed as the head of the Human Sciences Research Council’s (HSRC) HIV/Aids research programme. She succeeds Olive Shisana, who took over as president and CEO of the HSRC in August 2005.
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/ 30 January 2006
Crude oil prices fell on Monday ahead of a closely watched Opec meeting, despite persistent supply fears tied to Iran’s diplomatic stand-off with the West over its nuclear ambitions and militant attacks in Nigeria. Light, sweet crude for March delivery fell 14 cents to ,62 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange by midday in Europe.
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/ 30 January 2006
Within a few years, girls will be vaccinated against cancer. Not every cancer — at least, not yet. But the cervical cancer jab is well on its way. A couple of shots in the arm, perhaps, and young women may never have to think about it again. Simple coughs and colds can trigger everyÂthing from childhood leukaemia to cervical cancer.
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/ 30 January 2006
The African National Congress’s controversial parliamentary chief whip, Mbulelo Goniwe, has been accused of using a march over land restitution in the Eastern Cape as a weapon in his battle with local party activists in Cradock. This follows a statement by six ANC branches in Cradock, Goniwe’s hometown, demanding his expulsion from the party.
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/ 30 January 2006
The South Darfur police chief said on Sunday that 18 rebels had been killed and more than 50 wounded while two government troops died and nine others were wounded in a recent attack by rebels on Shiairyah town in South Darfur state. There was no independent confirmation of the statement by police chief, Major General Abdin al-Tahir, who was quoted by the state-run Sudanese Media Centre.
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/ 30 January 2006
About 3Â 000 members of the South African Police Service who could previously not read and write have completed literacy training. Ben Smit, managing director of Secudac, a private company which provided the training, said on Monday that the officers also acquired life skills during the six months Adult-Based Education and Training programme.
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/ 30 January 2006
Spanish police have detained about 200 African undocumented immigrants in the biggest such swoop this year, press reports said on Monday. The north and sub-Saharan Africans were captured off Almeria and Granada on the southern coast as well as the Canary Islands after arriving on five boats over the week-end.
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/ 30 January 2006
Natal provincial division Deputy Judge President Thabane Jali has resigned and will probably vacate his chambers at the end of February, Judge President Vuka Tshabalala said. ”He has got a better offer — in the private sector I think,” Tshabalala told the South African Press Association.
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/ 30 January 2006
Despite reaching a record high in early trade, the JSE was in the red at midday on Monday due to profit-taking following the bourse’s strong run last week. A weaker rand pared the bourse’s losses, however. By 12.04pm, the all-share index was down 0,2% at 19 679,31 — well off its all-time high of 19 873,609 reached earlier.