No image available
/ 14 September 2005
Condoms everywhere, the stink of latex … thousands of them rolling off the machines like sausages. From its nondescript factory south of Johannesburg, Latex Surgical Products makes about 200Â 000 condoms every day. Jeffery Hurwitz, the factory’s MD, showed the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> the ins and outs of making a condom.
No image available
/ 14 September 2005
More than 20 000 Nigerians marched through their bustling economic capital, Lagos, on Wednesday in a noisy but trouble-free protest against rising fuel prices and President Olusegun Obasanjo’s increasingly unpopular economic policies. Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka was among well-known figures leading the march.
No image available
/ 14 September 2005
![]()
Former deputy president Jacob Zuma has made no requests to the Presidency to fund his defence during his upcoming trial on corruption charges, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union called for mass pressure to support Zuma.
No image available
/ 14 September 2005
Another person has died as a result of the typhoid outbreak in Delmas in Mpumalanga, government officials said on Wednesday. Two people have so far died and 51 cases of typhoid have been confirmed. The number of the people presenting symptoms of typhoid had risen to 408 by 1pm on Wednesday.
No image available
/ 14 September 2005
Metrorail will investigate the cause of a fire that on Wednesday burnt down four train coaches and one motor coach at Daveyton station on the East Rand. Police spokesperson Superintendent Eugene Opperman said the train was set on fire by angry commuters because it had been late.
No image available
/ 14 September 2005
African countries are making progress in primary schooling for boys and girls alike — but other targets are unlikely to be attained, according to a United Nations report on Wednesday. The UN Economic Commission for Africa report details how African countries are faring in meeting the UN’s Millennium Development Goals.
No image available
/ 14 September 2005
Eritrea on Wednesday denounced as ”toothless, meaningless [and] pathetic” the latest United Nations Security Council resolution on its festering border tensions with neighbouring Ethiopia. On Tuesday in New York, the Security Council voted unanimously to urge the nations to implement a 2002 boundary ruling.
No image available
/ 14 September 2005
Malawi’s police have jailed a former veteran opposition figure on charges of insulting President Bingu wa Mutharika, who was allegedly called a ”drunk” and a ”brute”, the man’s lawyer said on Wednesday. ”Gwanda Chakuamba surrendered himself to police this morning,” lawyer Viva Nyimba said.
No image available
/ 14 September 2005
Libya is ready to restore diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia that were severed after Riyadh accused Tripoli of a plot to assassinate King Abdullah, then crown prince of the oil-rich kingdom. Last month, five Libyans were pardoned by Abdullah shortly after he became monarch on the death of his half-brother King Fahd.
No image available
/ 14 September 2005
Marine biologists on Wednesday decided to blow up the skull of a beached whale at Mnandi beach along False Bay after numerous attempts to refloat it failed. A Marine and Coastal Management spokesperson said the whale, 10m long and weighing close to 11 tonnes, had beached after apparently making a navigational error.