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/ 16 December 2004
The safety of single-dose nevirapine is not in question, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) reiterated on Wednesday, following comments by the Department of Health. The Aids action group was concerned that ”misleading” comments by the department could result in people discontinuing their treatment, and suffering harm.
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/ 16 December 2004
Al-Qaeda supporters detained in Saudi Arabia have appeared in a television documentary about al-Haer jail, 40km south of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and delivered rave reviews of life inside. ”I swear to God, they [the jailers] are nicer than our parents,” said Othman al-Amri, once number 21 on the kingdom’s list of most-wanted terror suspects.
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/ 16 December 2004
Going to the dentist can be a stressful enough experience. But patients in Italy now have to contend with a new concern: wondering if the dentist knows enough to tell a molar from a macaroon. The police have uncovered a ring selling dental qualifications. A degree cost 200Â 000 euros (about R1,5-million).
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/ 16 December 2004
A dispute over non-payment of the rental of a refrigerated container with medical waste inside on Wednesday caused a hospital group in East London, Afrox Healthcare, to end its medical waste-removal contract with a nationally based company. Last Friday, an electrician cut the power supply to a container in which medical waste had been stored.
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/ 16 December 2004
Survivors of this week’s horror smash in Flagstaff were still in shock on Wednesday after a runaway truck cut a swathe of destruction through the town, killing five and injuring at least 13 people. Speaking from his bed in the St Elizabeth hospital in Lusikisiki, Mphikelwa Mgoduka, a father of four, said he still cannot believe that he survived.
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/ 16 December 2004
The United States religious right, encouraged by the re-election of President George Bush, has launched a new offensive against secularism during this holiday season, with a campaign to put the Christ back into Christmas. The targets of the conservatives’ wrath include leading department stores and state schools.
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/ 16 December 2004
Russian oil giant Yukos on Wednesday increased the stakes in its battle with the Kremlin when it filed for bankruptcy in the United States in an unusual move possibly intended to pitch Washington against Moscow. The world’s second-largest oil producer filed for Chapter 11 protection in Houston, Texas.
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/ 16 December 2004
There were perhaps a dozen men by the grave, and they did their work in silence and in secrecy, hidden from possible onlookers by four strategically parked fire tenders. They worked swiftly, breaking up the large flat stones that had been placed there only hours before, and lifting out a heavy, locked coffin: Yasser Arafat’s coffin.
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/ 16 December 2004
Robin McGregor, former chief executive of well-known South African businessman Tony Cotterell’s Kempston Group, will finally face fraud charges four years after he was first arrested. McGregor is currently dealer principal of the Johannesburg-based Peugeot Commercial Centre, a division of Cotterell’s Ancott Trust.
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/ 16 December 2004
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has been the subject of a heated debate in the United States and Europe in recent weeks, accused of an oversight in handling the Iraq oil-for-food programme. Allegations of conflict of interest in the Annan family concerning the initiative have also been made. Annan’s critics allege that he should take responsibility for the matter, as it happened on his watch.