Tens of thousands of lives are at risk because of a lack of drugs needed to fight a malaria epidemic threatening Ethiopia, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned.
Suspected Absa hacker Johannes Jacobus Fourie made his third brief appearance in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court on Monday following his arrest last month after the bank accounts of Absa clients were hacked and more than R500 000 removed.
Gold shares were propping up the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa at noon on Monday as they continued to show strength on the back of a higher bullion price and a sterling performance by their ADRs in New York on Friday.
America’s hottest new reality show got under way at the weekend as 158 candidates, including an action hero, a former child actor, a billboard pin-up and a sumo wrestler, filed to run for the job as governor of California.
The Democratic Alliance said on Sunday it had no faith in Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang ‘s ability to be in charge of the new government plan on HIV and Aids.
The Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospital will run out of meat this week as a result of non-payment to their meat supplier, the Democratic Alliance Gauteng Health spokesman Jack Bloom said on Sunday.
The Democratic Alliance said on Sunday it welcomed reports that former Transport Minister Mac Maharaj would resign from his directorship with FirstRand.
President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday paid tribute to Orlando Pirates striker Lesley Manyathela who died in a car accident on Saturday night.
SA weeps at death of Bucs star
Australian cricket legend Shane Warne was under pressure on Monday to prove he has nothing to hide in the latest episode in his stormy sporting celebrity career.
A 37-year-old woman from the West Rand who was injured when a marquee collapsed at a Women’s Day function in Pretoria on Saturday has been paralysed, Muelmed Hospital in Pretoria said on Sunday.
Women’s Day stage collapses on Mbeki