A bid by the state to view an e.tv documentary on the murder of baby Jordan Norton before it is broadcast is nothing less than censorship, the station’s advocate told the Cape High Court on Thursday. The Western Cape directorate of public prosecutions is seeking an order that will allow it to preview the documentary.
Rescuers have yet to retrieve any of up to 40 miners missing since an illegal gold pit collapsed in Ghana last week, and hopes are fading for any survivors, authorities at the scene said on Thursday. Rescuers are still pondering how to reach the bottom of the pit.
Listed fashion retailer Truworths International has reported a 31% rise in its fully diluted headline earnings per share for the year to the end of June 2005, to 140,8 cents from 107,4 cents a year earlier. The company declared a final dividend of 37 cents per share, which brings the total dividend for the year to 69 cents.
Listed fashion retailer Truworths International has reported a 31% rise in its fully diluted headline earnings per share for the year to the end of June 2005, to 140,8 cents from 107,4 cents a year earlier. The company declared a final dividend of 37 cents per share, which brings the total dividend for the year to 69 cents.
Africa’s demand for two permanent veto-wielding seats on an expanded United Nations Security Council is non-negotiable and must be met if the world is serious about improving conditions on the continent, Kenya said on Thursday. Kenya said Security Council expansion as part of broader UN reform is essential.
Israeli soldiers sawed down and pried open doors as they forced their way into a nursery filled with Jewish ultranationalists opposed to the Gaza pull-out on Thursday, dragging parents holding screaming children out of the building.
Burundi’s lone remaining Hutu rebel group kept up attacks ahead of the nomination of a new president for the country, the military said on Thursday. Fighters from the National Liberation Forces fired six 60mm mortar bombs at the capital late on Wednesday, army spokesperson Major Adolphe Manirakiza said.
An unidentified ship has been hijacked off the coast of Somalia in the latest in a series of piracy incidents in Somali waters that have prompted dire international maritime warnings, a militia said on Thursday. Pirates seized the vessel are holding its crew hostage, the Juba Valley Alliance militia said.
Important recommendations should soon be made as a result of the evidence presented at the investigation into the explosion at Sasol’s Secunda ethylene plant in September last year, trade union Solidarity said on Thursday. Evidence presented at the inquiry showed that deficiencies existed in Sasol’s safety systems, the union added.
Leading KwaZulu-Natal businessman Don Mkhwanazi emerged on Wednesday as a key mover behind a campaign to raise funds for embattled former deputy president Jacob Zuma, The Mercury website reported on Thursday. Zuma is expected to face several charges in a costly and lengthy corruption trial starting in October.