The swine fever outbreak in the Eastern Cape has been brought under control, the Agriculture and Land Affairs Department said on Friday. Spokesperson Steve Galane said only small areas in the Western and Eastern Cape were still affected by the disease that was detected last month.
Djibril Cisse came off the subs bench to lead Liverpool to a 3-1 Super Cup win over CSKA Moscow in Monaco on Friday. The France international, who has been upset by speculation that he might be shipped out of Anfield to make way for the possible return of Real Madrid’s Michael Owen, could not have made a more eloquent or timely argument in favour of keeping him at Merseyside.
The family of a man who was allegedly raped by three women say he is so traumatised that he won’t speak a word to anyone. ”He isn’t all right. We are trying to talk to him but he is not saying anything. We are just trying to sort things out,” said Michelle, the 30-year-old victim’s sister-in-law.
Iraq’s leaders were struggling to meet yet another deadline on a new Constitution on Friday night amid increasing US alarm that the draft will exclude Sunni Arabs. The ruling Shia and Kurdish coalition held what were billed as last-ditch talks with Sunni leaders, but there was no sign of a breakthrough as the midnight deadline approached.
Britain will join an international alliance to confront United States President George Bush and salvage as much as possible of an ambitious plan to reshape the United Nations and tackle world poverty next week. The head-to-head in New York on Monday comes after the revelation that the US administration is proposing wholesale changes to crucial parts of the biggest overhaul of the UN since it was founded more than 50 years ago.
The police tape fluttering gently marks the front line. On one side sits a rag-tag collection of tents, home-made placards calling for the troops to come home and a long line of white crosses representing the soldiers killed in Iraq. On the other side of the small country lane there is a smart collection of garden-style awnings filled with fold-out canvas chairs, lined with glossy placards proclaiming ”Bush Country”, ”IM4W” and ”Support Our Troops”.
President Robert Mugabe’s government has blocked a -million (about R195-million) United Nations fundraising drive to provide food and medicine to Zimbabweans hardest hit by the state destruction of urban slum housing, UN relief officials said on Friday.
Powerful Typhoon Mawar hit central Japan early on Friday, bringing heavy rain and fierce winds that left at least one person dead, two people missing and four injured, officials said. Transportation was also disrupted by the storm, leaving tens of thousands stranded.
Gerry Fitt, a leader of Catholic nationalists in Northern Ireland and a fierce critic of the Irish Republican Army, died on Friday, his family said. He was 79. The cause of death was not announced, but he had a history of heart disease and had been in declining health for months.
The South African Communist Party expressed anger at the release of a letter by President Thabo Mbeki on Jacob Zuma on Friday, saying it was supposed to be an internal alliance document. In the letter, Mbeki suggests a commission of inquiry to probe claims that he and others are seeking to destroy Zuma politically.