Dr Frank Vreede, a molecular genetics expert, is now in Europe. He is specialising in controlling gene expression by manipulating animal responses to vaccination to optimise immunity. Dr Mandy Bastos, a molecular epidemiologist, specialising in foot and mouth disease. She had played a large part for tracing the origin of the disease. Dr Kelly Brayton, […]
A MANHUNT is underway in sugar cane fields near the Mtunzini toll plaza along the N2 highway in KwaZulu-Natal for a gang of robbers who attacked and robbed a security guard vehicle on Friday morning, police said.
HEAVILY armed policemen guarded the Randburg Regional Court on Friday for the appearance of a former Cuban intelligence officer, 43-year-old Nelson Pablo Yester-Garrido, who was arrested on April 23 in Johannesburg.
THE dissected and preserved remains of the so-called ”Hottentot Venus” arrived in South Africa from France early Friday, nearly 200 years after the African woman was first put on display in Europe as a sexual freak.
AT least 65 Maoist rebels were killed in clashes with security personnel in two western districts on Thursday, said Nepal’s minister of state for home Devendra Raj Kandel.
THREE taxi bosses who master-minded a spate of attacks on Golden Arrow buses were sentenced to three terms of life imprisonment each in the Cape High Court, SABC television news reported on Thursday.
FIVE-key players in the South African national under-23 team were left behind due to club commitments when their compatriots jetted off to France on Wednesday night for a three-week international tournament.
THE Appeal Court in Bloemfontein has reserved judgement in the case of Siphiwe Bethuel Lombo, who is suing the ANC for R6-million, SABC radio reported on Friday.
Blatter to visit North Korea in last ditch world cup bid Fifa president Sepp Blatter will visit North Korea next week in a last ditch bid to find a symbolic role for the isolated state at the World Cup, Asian soccer officials said on Friday.
FORMER US President Jimmy Carter met in Atlanta late on Thursday with representatives of the Cuban exile community ahead of his historic trip to the Communist-ruled island. The trip, scheduled for May 12-17, will make Carter the most prominent American who has travelled to Cuba since its 1959 revolution. Representatives of the exile community asked […]