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/ 29 November 2005
A genetic experiment to unlock the secrets of the ageing process has created organisms that live six times their usual lifespan, raising hopes that it might be possible to slow ageing in humans. The geneticists behind the study say the increase in lifespan is so striking, they may have tapped into one of the most fundamental mechanisms that controls the rate at which living creatures age.
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/ 29 November 2005
More than 1 000 arrests have been made in three provinces in the police’s Operation Basadi in the past four days, mostly for crimes against women. The arrests were made in the Western Cape, Free State and Northern Cape, mainly for rape, domestic violence and abuse, said Captain Percy Morokane.
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/ 28 November 2005
President Robert Mugabe’s party in Zimbabwe has won all but seven seats in a controversial new Senate, crushing the challenge posed by a severely weakened opposition party, final results showed on Monday. The ruling party secured 43 seats in the 66-seat Upper House, while the main opposition party won seven.
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/ 28 November 2005
Suspended National Intelligence Agency director general Billy Masetlha filed an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court on Monday in a bid to secure his legal rights in a running probe into misconduct. Masetlha was told on Thursday that the inspector general of intelligence wanted to interview him on Tuesday.
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/ 28 November 2005
NGOs, activists and other interest groups opposing elephant culling in the Kruger National Park met Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk on Monday. A report from the South African National Parks board in July proposed culling between 5Â 000 and 7Â 000 elephants.
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/ 28 November 2005
A little girl strokes the beard of an enormous Father Christmas at Johannesburg’s Rosebank Mall, while her mother croons gentle descriptions of his velvety coat and big girth. It’s Monday morning, which many security analysts warn is a danger time for robbers who know that coffers are swollen from the weekend’s pre-Christmas takings.
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/ 28 November 2005
An explosion at a coal mine in remote north-eastern China killed 134 workers and left another 15 trapped underground, China News Service said on Monday, amid frantic rescue efforts to find survivors. A total of 221 miners were underground when the cave-in occurred.
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/ 28 November 2005
Iranian rescue workers handed out blankets, food and water on Monday to survivors of a powerful earthquake on a Gulf island that killed 10 people and forced villagers to spend the night in tents. Power was restored to the afflicted villages on the Gulf island of Qeshm after a blackout caused by the quake.
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/ 28 November 2005
Hundreds of Nigerian troops descended on Monday on the capital of the country’s biggest oil-producing region after militant youths rallied around a state governor accused of embezzling millions of dollars, the military said. The deployment marks a dramatic increase in tension in the restive Niger Delta.