Complacency will be Kaizer Chiefs’ downfall against Black Leopards in the quarterfinal of the R1,3-million SAA Supa 8 match at the FNB Stadium on Saturday. The jungle cats from Limpopo are hurting. They were overshadowed 2-0 by AmaKhosi in the semifinal of the Telkom Charity Cup at the same venue last month.
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Delegates attending the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) ministerial conference in Durban, South Africa, are expected to shortly approve sanction-type measures against Israel, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, Dr Nasser Al Kidwa, said on Thursday.
Legislation paving the way for registered nurses who have undergone prescribed training to perform abortions was approved in the National Assembly on Thursday, despite the objections of several opposition parties. A Democratic Alliance spokesperson said many DA MPs believe the Bill ”makes for very bad law”.
Workers were on Thursday beginning to clear thousands of tons of mud and rock from a main road in Scotland, a day after two massive landslides left more than 50 people stranded. Motorists had to be winched to safety by helicopter after the landslides blocked two parts of the A85 motorway in central Scotland.
Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri is willing to meet with the three unions at Telkom to discuss the fixed-line monopoly’s retrenchment proposals, her spokesperson Donovan Cloete said on Thursday. ”The meeting will happen. The minister will engage with the unions,” he said.
Typhoon Megi ploughed through South Korea’s southern provinces on Thursday, causing flash floods that left eight people dead or missing, disaster officials said on Thursday. Heavy rain brought by the typhoon left 2 400 people homeless in southern coastal regions, the national anti-disaster agency said.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma has condemned the carrying-out of a witchhunt against MPs allegedly involved in the Travelgate scam. The deputy president told MPs: ”I will never participate in the campaign against people when they are not found guilty … if there is no evidence conclusively that says, yes, they have erred.”
The head of a suspected mercenary recruitment agency, one other man and a two women were released by the Scorpions in Cape Town on Thursday after being questioned about possibly illegal military activity. A spokesperson for the National Directorate of Public Prosecutions said the investigation is not over.
National health legislation, due to be signed into law by President Thabo Mbeki, will prohibit the manipulation of any human genetic material for the purpose of reproductive cloning. The minister of health said the legislation permits her to allow ”therapeutic cloning … under prescribed conditions”.