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/ 2 December 2004
A toxicologist will study the medical records of 23 current and former Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa employees to determine their state of health, Earthlife Africa said on Wednesday. The organisation has expressed concern there was ”irregularities” in the way in which workers’ medical files had been handled. This comes after a former Koeberg worker, Ron Lockwood, contracted leukaemia.
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/ 2 December 2004
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/142915/aids_icon.gif" align=left>Zibango Hlabe sits watching his family building their new home. He is too weak to help. He has come back to his family in Nqabeni village, near Port Shepstone, after contracting HIV on the mines and growing too ill to work. The impact of his death will psychologically, emotionally and financially affect the lives of his nine children, and brand them as "Aids orphans".
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/ 2 December 2004
An African National Congress campaign of violence is to blame for the assassination of an Inkatha Freedom Party councillor, IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Wednesday. He was reacting to the death of Langa Ntshangase (35) who was shot twice in the head as he entered the front gate of his house in Nongoma in KwaZulu-Natal at 9.15pm on Tuesday.
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/ 2 December 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange bounded to an all-time high in opening trade on Thursday, again defying the rand, which was trading at its best levels since January 7, 1999. The bourse continued to be driven by positive sentiment and was further helped by a strong close on United States markets overnight.
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/ 2 December 2004
The two sides in the 11-day crisis in Ukraine showed the first signs of compromise on Wednesday night when they released a joint statement promising an end to opposition blockades of government buildings and to respect the decision of the supreme court which has yet to rule on the validity of the disputed presidential elections.
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/ 2 December 2004
He is best known as the past century’s most famous genius. But as well as devising the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein was also responsible, it emerged on Wednesday, for a less celebrated discovery — a fridge. Nearly 80 years after he invented it, a group of German physicists have begun making Einstein’s unique alcohol-powered fridge.
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/ 2 December 2004
The Israeli and Palestinian leaderships were in upheaval on Wednesday night as Ariel Sharon’s government faced collapse after the prime minister broke with his main coalition partner, and a popular Palestinian military commander launched a strong challenge from his jail cell to succeed Yasser Arafat in next month’s election.
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/ 2 December 2004
Precisely 120 027 card-carrying Socialists on Wednesday night dictated the fate not just of their own party but quite possibly of the European Union as they voted on the new European Union Constitution. The official results of the finely balanced internal referendum, which follows a bitter three-month debate that has split France’s main opposition party, will not be announced until Friday.
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/ 2 December 2004
The Pentagon ordered airborne reinforcements into Iraq on Wednesday to bolster its forces during the general election due in January, marking the end of Washington’s hope that other countries would supply the extra soldiers. Defence officials said two battalions of the 82nd Airborne would be flown from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Iraq in the next few weeks.
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/ 2 December 2004
The first execution of a black woman in Texas since the American civil war was delayed at the 11th hour on Wednesday when the state governor granted a reprieve pending new tests on evidence. Frances Newton (39) was to have been killed by lethal injection on Wednesday night for the murder of her husband and two children in 1987.