At least 14 people were injured during the annual ”running of the bulls” festival in Pamplona, Spain, on Monday. Among those injured were two United States citizens, a French national and a visitor from Colombia. The festival, made world-famous by writer Ernest Hemingway, comes to an end on Wednesday.
The department of housing in Gauteng and the residents of Diepsloot, north-west of Johannesburg, are expected to have a meeting at Muzomuhle Primary School on Monday afternoon. The meeting comes after last week’s violent protest by the residents amid rumours that they were about to be relocated to the North West province.
The threat of HIV/Aids can be countered by abstinence, loving relationships and marriage instead of relying solely on condoms, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told delegates at the International Aids Conference in Bangkok on Monday.
President Thabo Mbeki said on Monday he is concerned by the way people ask about how much African peace-keeping efforts cost, in the light of the current debate about the cost of the Pan-African Parliament. He was speaking at the South African Council of Churches’ three-yearly conference in Johannesburg.
The British scientific establishment responded with anger on Monday to an attack by Prince Charles on nanotechnology — applied science involving tiny particles. Over the weekend the prince suggested using the technology in fertility treatment could lead to a disaster of the kind caused by the use of thalidomide.
Poor performance and the effect of diseases such as Aids are two major challenges facing the African transport industry, Minister of Transport Jeff Radebe said on Monday. Radebe said the cost of border-post delays to the Southern African Development Community region is estimated at -million annually.
About 15 000 people demonstrated at the weekend in Angola’s restive oil-rich Cabinda region to demand a truce between government forces and separatists fighting Luanda for about four decades. Shouting ”We want peace”, the demonstrators on Sunday took to the streets of the Cabinda capital.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was a tad higher in noon trade in a market that, as is typical on a Monday, was very quiet. A dealer said that there was no fresh news to drive the bourse and that most of the moves were stock specific. By 11.54am, the all share index was up 0,28%.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan says that peace talks for southern Sudan may be compromised if mediators continue to turn a blind eye to the humanitarian crisis raging in the western region of Darfur, where more than a million people have been displaced by fighting.
Laurance Rockefeller, a conservationist, philanthropist and leading figure in the field of venture capital, died in his sleep on Sunday morning. He was 94. The cause of death was pulmonary fibrosis, his spokesperson said in a statement. Rockefeller was number 377 on this year’s Forbes magazine list of 587 billionaires, with ,5-billion.