Belgian investigators on Thursday continued to question confessed French serial killer Michel Fourniret, who has already admitted to nine murders, over a number of other alleged crimes. French police are reportedly reinvestigating about 30 unsolved murders and Belgian authorities have reopened a dozen unsolved cases.
A group of retail pharmacies may not boycott medical schemes who refuse to accept its trading conditions, the Competition Commission said on Thursday.
The commission ruled that United South African Pharmacies had contravened the Competition Act in boycotting the Anglo American Corporation Medical Scheme and the Engen Medical Fund.
Leading media and entertainment group Johnnic Communications will contribute R4,6-million towards a new teaching facility for the Rhodes University school of journalism in Grahamstown, group CEO Connie Molusi has announced. The grant comes as part of a long-standing partnership between the company and Rhodes University.
A grenade exploded overnight in a shop owned by a group linked to Madagascar’s President Marc Ravalomanana in the central town of Fianarantsoa, the Indian Ocean island state’s public safety minister said on Thursday. The blast took place hours after a grenade exploded in the courtyard of the home of former president Albert Zafy.
Seven soccer officials appeared in courts in Polokwane and Bloemfontein on Thursday after being arrested during the police crackdown on football match-fixing. Twenty-nine soccer officials have been arrested so far in the investigation into match-fixing and corruption requested by the South African Football Association.
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Patients in the emerging health-care market — notably in urban townships and rural areas — will in future have less accessibility to the medicines that are becoming more affordable to them in the wake of new government legislation. This is the contention of Johannesburg-based empowerment group Amalgamated Healthcare.
While South Africans have so far been spared an outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) that has spread across developing nations in Asia in particular, there is no room for complacency. Researchers in Singapore have suggested that Sars patients may run a higher-than-average risk of developing tuberculosis.
An airport near the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) capital, Kinshasa, that was the scene of a horrific accident in 1996 in which 350 people died has reopened to traffic, a report said on Thursday. On January 8 1996 an Antonov aircraft crashed on take-off, plunging into a crowded market.
Tax returns can still be handed in on Saturday, the South African Revenue Services (Sars) announced on Thursday. Sars offices throughout the country will remain open on Saturday to accommodate taxpayers who are unable to file their tax returns during the week.
Three people, including a 13-year-old girl, were injured when a light aircraft crashed in Syferfontein near Lenasia on Thursday, police said. Captain Mbazima Shiburi said the 49-year-old pilot, who had broken both his legs and one arm, was airlifted to Milpark hospital. His condition was serious but stable.