A senior World Health Organisation official told a conference on Tuesday that traditional medicine had helped improve the condition of two of his nieces, who are HIV-positive. Earlier, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said the status and profile of traditional healers should be raised.
Financial and risk services provider Alexander Forbes has been awarded a BBB rating by independent economic empowerment rating agency EmpowerDEX. A triple-B rating denotes that it is a satisfactory broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE) contributor with an unrestricted operational capacity.
United Nations officials said on Tuesday that unknown gunmen shot and killed a South African peacekeeper in a restive northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) region. The soldier was struck late on Monday by a bullet fired from outside a UN base near Kavumu airport.
SA military, UN investigate DRC death
The population of Africa’s eastern lowland gorilla has slumped by more than 70% in the past decade, from 17 000 animals in 1994 to fewer than 5 000 today, a conservation group said on Tuesday. Virtually all of the world’s population of this highly endangered species lives in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Taxi organisations will patrol the country’s highways with traffic officers this Easter in a bid to boost road safety, the Arrive Alive campaign announced on Tuesday. South African National Taxi Council president Tom Moufe said taxi drivers would respond better to those who knew the way they worked.
The recent employment figures released by Statistics South Africa are a clear indication that there has been a marginal increase in the number of people in employment, Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana said on Tuesday. He said the government is on track to meet its goal of halving unemployment by 2014.
Department of Labour inspectors on Tuesday served 17 contravention notices and a prohibition order on four different companies at Isipingo, south of Durban, after several complaints relating to air pollution, environmental issues and unconducive working environments in the area.
”The three-pointed compass that will guide the second decade of democracy in South Africa was on display at the opening of the new Constitutional Court complex last Sunday”. Richard Calland forecasts the direction of the Court in the second decade of democracy.
About 10 Sudanese army officers have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in a military coup attempt apparently related to the ongoing conflict in west Sudan’s Darfur region, an official close to the government said on Tuesday. The officers arrested are thought to belong to the Islamist opposition Popular Congress.
The cyclone that lashed northern Madagascar early this month claimed 237 lives and 181 people are still unaccounted for, the national rescue service on the Indian Ocean island said on Tuesday, issuing a new toll. An earlier toll put the number of dead at 198, with 166 missing. More than 304Â 000 people were left homeless by the storm.