South Africa’s Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is standing firm on her government’s interventions aimed to bring down the price of medications — in spite of legal action being taken against her department. Speaking during her vote in Parliament on Thursday she said: ”Our research indicates that large profits are being made on the sale of medicines.”
Nurses to start community service
‘Dispensing not picked up on the job’
Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, has taken the first step to overturn a ruling by the European Commission that would force the firm to strip Media Player out of its Windows PC operating systems and pay a fine of about R4,2-billion.
Quite a number of medical doctors had failed a course in dispensing required in terms of new legislation, says South Africa’s Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. Tshabalala-Msimang said that some doctors who had been dispensing for years had failed the course by a wide-margin.
Nearly three dozen Iraqi civilians died when a massive car bomb exploded near an Iraqi army recruiting base at the former Muthanna military airport in Baghdad on Thursday. Iraqi health officials said 35 people died and about 135 people were wounded in the explosion, which occurred at 9am as a crowd of job hunters gathered in front of the recruiting station.
The United States commission investigating the September 11 attacks reported on Wednesday it had found no evidence that Iraq and al-Qaeda cooperated in the plot or had any sort of ”collaborative relationship”, bluntly contradicting persistent White House claims.
Bush should apologise
Crocodile, boa constrictor, tortoise and antelope top the menu, served up in banana-leaf sacks with potato chips on the side. And for the willing, there’s one dish that would make most carnivores squirm: monkey meat. At Mama Ekila’s Inzia restaurant, African bushmeat is flown in — and fried up — for discerning diners looking to put a bit of adventure on their plate.
Namibian President Sam Nujoma on Wednesday slammed ”racist” white farmers who have claimed the government’s land reform programme lacks transparency and threatened to punish anyone who evicted black workers. Nujoma took a swipe at a farmers’ support group which recently said the farm expropriation process was not transparent because the lands ministry did not define the criteria.
The New York Times on Thursday called on President George Bush to apologise to the American people for going to war on Iraq after an official probe into the September 11 attacks found no evidence linking Iraq and al-Qaeda. ”Now President Bush should apologise to the American people, who were led to believe something different,” the Times editorial said.
Eric Khumalo first opened a bank account when he got a job as a field assistant at the Hluhluwe Umfolozi Park in KwaZulu-Natal. Khumalo goes to the bank once a month, withdraws his entire salary, and returns to the park with his spending money. He is the type of low-risk client that banks are seeking to exempt from the stringent identification requirements of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act.
A Missouri maker of software that has enabled users to copy DVDs and computer games soon could fold under the mounting weight of lawsuits by deep-pocketed movie studios and others, the company’s chief said. Robert Moore said on Wednesday that he’ll decide within weeks whether his 321 Studios would seek federal bankruptcy protection.