Five traditional surgeons have been arrested in the Eastern Cape after 20 initiates died following botched circumcisions since the start of the initiation season around early June, the provincial health department said on Monday.
An American and a Spanish runner were gored and at least four other people were hospitalised on Monday after the eighth and final running of the bulls at Pamplona’s San Fermin festival.
The head of a newly-formed political opposition party on Monday pledged wide-ranging land reform as the key manifesto strategy for the 2005 Ethiopian elections.
The Ugandan army rescued 249 children during the last two weeks from rebels who abducted the kids, the army spokesperson said on Monday.
A total of about 7 000 women around the country had received the anti-retroviral drug nevirapine at State hospitals and clinics by December last year, according to South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
Investec Corporate Finance would be the first designated adviser for the alternative exchange, AltX, which will list small and medium growing companies, the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa announced on Monday.
Myanmar’s military government on Monday accused the United States and its allies of ”blind and prejudiced meddling” in the country’s internal affairs.
Most US troops on the ground in Baghdad have no say in how the Iraqi capital is rebuilt, but many are laying down their own blueprint of the city — with American street names ousting the traditional Arabic.
South Africa’s nine provinces have notched up a steadily improved performance in spending their nationally allocated HIV/Aids conditional grants during the last three financial years, according to Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, said yesterday that he expected more attacks on US troops in Iraq this month but that the 150,000-strong force was likely to stay for the ”foreseeable future”.