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/ 23 January 2006
Malaria has claimed the lives of six of 483 people hospitalised for the mosquito-borne disease in Gauteng this year. The health department has denied that there is an outbreak of malaria in the province. ”We don’t have that breed of mosquitoes in Gauteng,” spokesperson Bhungani ka Mzolo said on Monday.
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/ 23 January 2006
Unidentified assailants ambushed United Nations peacekeepers from Guatemala in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday, sparking an hours-long gunbattle that left eight UN troops dead, officials said. Fourteen UN peacekeepers were wounded in the attack in Garamba National Park.
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/ 23 January 2006
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Opportunities to tackle poverty, unemployment and underdevelopment have never been better, the African National Congress said on Monday. All South Africans should throw their weight behind this task, the party said after the annual lekgotla (meeting) of its national executive council at the weekend.
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/ 23 January 2006
A building collapsed in central Nairobi on Monday while more than 280 workers were inside, leaving at least eight people dead, witnesses and construction workers said. More than 50 seriously injured people were rushed to hospitals, medics said. At the weekend, two buildings collapsed in Nigeria, killing at least 15 people.
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/ 23 January 2006
World oil prices on Monday soared above per barrel for the first time in more than four months, owing to global supply concerns, before easing on profit-taking, analysts and dealers said. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in March, hit an intraday peak of ,20 — the highest level since September 1 last year.
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/ 23 January 2006
Provincial housing ministers should not blame a lack of funds for slow delivery when they fail to spend their full budget allocation, the chairperson of Parliament’s finance select committee said on Monday. ”Don’t … plead poverty,” Tutu Ralane told the housing ministers of four provinces who reported on their spending.
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/ 23 January 2006
Three more people were arrested for public violence during a service-delivery protest in Mabopane on Monday, bringing the number of arrests to 11, North West police said. Captain Thabo Makhafola said the arrests were made between 3am and 10am after a crowd of about 500 protesting poor service delivery turned violent.
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/ 23 January 2006
Three shabbily dressed men appeared in the Randburg Regional Court on Monday for the 1999 murder of Young Koo Kwon, the local president of the Daewoo Motor Corporation. Thomas Tshabalala (28), Bheki Simelani (29) and Mokwa Sedikane (32) were not asked to plead.
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/ 23 January 2006
Farmers and vegetable vendors in the Zimbabwean capital Harare are locked in a bitter turf war after the authorities closed down the city’s main outdoor market to stop the spread of cholera, local reports said on Monday. Thousands of small-scale farmers were left stranded earlier this month after they arrived at the popular Mbare Msika market to sell their fresh produce.
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/ 23 January 2006
The health department says inaccurate reporting of new cases of cancer in South Africa was making it difficult to fight the disease.