Cape Town | Sunday A PLAN that would see at least 10% of HIV-positive South Africans receive antiretroviral treatment was launched by the official opposition party on Sunday. At present between 0,1 and 0,2% – between 5 000 and 10 000 people – got such treatment, said Democratic Alliance (DA) Aids representative Sandy Kalyan at […]
Johannesburg | Wednesday SOUTH Africa’s rand remained a bit stronger on Wednesday, but a lack of domestic incentives and the tense international backdrop were expected to keep a lid on the currency in the short term. Chartists also said that technically the currency looked like it would remain stuck in a range for the next […]
Cape Town | Friday IT IS impossible to insulate South Africa and the rest of the world from the consequences of the deepening crisis in the Middle East, says President Thabo Mbeki. In his weekly letter posted on the official website of the African National Congress (ANC) on Friday, Mbeki said this situation, ”despite the […]
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NO single factor can be said to have been decisive in the Ellis
Park Stadium soccer stampede tragedy on April 11 last year, said
Transvaal Judge President Bernard Ngoepe, who headed the commission
of inquiry into the disaster.
BEN MACLENNAN, Cape Town | Thursday THE 4 000 children that die worldwide every day from preventable diseases are a ”collective crisis of conscience for governments”, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Thursday. Speaking at an international conference in Cape Town on financing for vaccines, he said the wide unevenness in access to vaccines reflected […]
MARIETTE LE ROUX, Pretoria | Thursday APARTHEID chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson appeared relaxed on Thursday as the Pretoria High Court started delivering judgment in his trial on charges including murder, fraud and the possession of drugs. Judge Willie Hartzenberg started reading extracts from his 1400-page judgment by 8.30am. By tea-time he […]
East London | Tuesday SEA-bird slayer Francina Minnie has been re-arrested and remanded into custody until May 6, when she will appear in the East London Magistrate’s court for failing to report for community service at the local aquarium. Minnie was sentenced to two years correctional supervision and 384 hours of community service last year, […]
MARIETTE LE ROUX, Bloemfontein | Tuesday IT was suspected that a man who survived a fall of some 22 floors from a Bloemfontein building on Monday had been trying to commit suicide, police said on Tuesday. ”No foul play is suspected,” Free State police representative Captain Ernest Mayiki said. Nosi Maxakato (29) fell on a […]
Stellenbosch | Thursday FORMER president Nelson Mandela reiterated previous criticism of government’s reluctance to roll-out the antiretroviral nevirapine to prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child. Individuals should be allowed to decide for themselves if they wanted to use Aids drugs, Mandela said at a dinner held at the Spier Wine Estate to […]