The skeletons of another four supposed victims of a Durban serial killer were found over the weekend, a police spokesperson reported on Sunday.
While almost 80% of South Africans were satisfied with standards of health service provision, the remainder appeared to be unhappy for two principle reasons — a perceived shortage of drugs and the ”attitude” of health workers.
They came in their hundreds, rather than thousands, and there were a fair number of BMWs and Mercedes in the parking lot outside the Rocklands Civic. But Sunday’s rally marking the 20th annivesary of the founding of the United Democratic Front was for many still a poignant occasion.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma has accused the National Directorate of Public Prosecutions of finding him guilty of corruption linked to the country’s arms deal without having the necessary evidence.
For the first time, more Americans say they would oppose President George Bush’s re-election in 2004 than support a second term, according to a poll published yesterday that showed mounting pessimism over the US military presence in Iraq.
Scientists have another solution for the notorious ”French paradox” — the riddle of how a nation of alcohol-quaffing, croissant-munching gourmands stays healthy and slim, while a disproportionate number of health-obsessed Americans are obese and at cardiovascular risk.
In a muddy field on a misty east African hillside, President Paul Kagame ended his campaign for today’s momentous Rwandan election by offering his people a life-or-death choice.
Western Cape divers will be the main beneficiaries of the new 10-year perlemoen harvesting rights that places a moratorium on quotas for recreational divers and eliminates larger fishing companies from competing for the rapidly dwindling mollusc.
An empire built on female nakedness went the way of all flesh last week when Penthouse, the magazine that once epitomised the adolescent male fantasy, accepted its mortality and filed for bankruptcy.
”My time here could come to an abrupt end,” Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN’s special representative to Iraq, commented just three weeks ago as I sat on a sofa in the Baghdad office that last Tuesday became his tomb. He never seriously imagined he would be an assassin’s target.