No image available
/ 14 September 2003
The Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa (PSSA) on Saturday acknowledged research that a single dose of nevirapine was cost-effective saying ”despite a lack of resources in South Africa, the drug can be offered successfully to curb mother-to-child HIV transmission”.
No image available
/ 14 September 2003
Fears are growing that the United States could effectively walk away from crucial trade talks in the Mexican resort of Cancun aimed at solving the deepening economic and social crisis afflicting billions of the world’s poorest people.
No image available
/ 14 September 2003
A book cataloguing the right-wing bias in broadcasts by Rupert Murdoch’s US cable television news network, Fox News, has topped the American bestseller lists, weeks after lawyers acting for the company tried to stop it being published.
No image available
/ 14 September 2003
The National Directorate of Public Prosecutions has proof that its director, Bulelani Ngcuka, is not an apartheid spy, it was reported by a Cape Town television station.
No image available
/ 13 September 2003
More than half a sample of 400 trade union leaders tracked by an academic research project have done ”extremely” well out of South Africa’s democratic transition and a ”mobile” 51% of worker leaders have attained affluence beyond ”their wildest expectations”.
No image available
/ 13 September 2003
Microsoft yesterday said it plans to double the size of its dividend for the 2004 financial year to 16 cents per share. The announcement marks only the second time that the software group has paid a dividend to investors, after its decision to begin earlier this year with an eight cents per share payout.
No image available
/ 13 September 2003
A teenage surfer died on Friday afternoon after being bitten by a shark at popular surfing spot, Noordhoek near Cape Town, the National Sea Rescue Institute confirmed.
No image available
/ 13 September 2003
Armed police in Zimbabwe on Friday shut down the offices of the country’s only independent daily newspaper, a day after a court said the paper was operating illegally, a lawyer for the paper said.
No image available
/ 13 September 2003
The United States economy stumbled again yesterday with the release of crucial retail sales, consumer confidence and inflation data that were uniformly worse than analysts had been expecting.
No image available
/ 13 September 2003
Carla del Ponte, who was removed last month from her post as prosecutor for the Rwanda genocide court, yesterday blamed her dismissal on the country’s president, Paul Kagame.