Johannesburg | Wednesday THE government will appeal the latest Pretoria High Court judgement ordering them to provide nevirapine to HIV-positive pregnant women, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Wednesday. She made the announcement at the national traditional leaders forum on HIV/Aids in Johannesburg, saying the government intended to appeal Monday’s high court ruling in the […]
About 50 Aids activists marched to the Office of the President in Pretoria on Wednesday calling for the provision of social grants to unemployed people living with HIV/Aids. The group – members of Napwa (National Association of People Living with HIV/Aids) – picketed at the Union Buildings and sang liberation songs. Led by the organisation’s […]
Sun City | Friday THE government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has announced it was prepared to hold elections in the war-torn country within 18 months provided Joseph Kabila remains president until then. Communications Minister Kikaya bin Karubi said the Kabila government was ready to accept the deadline of between one year and […]
Harare | Saturday WAR VETERANS allegedly assaulted a farmer and two of his workers on a Mashonda farm in southern Harare on Friday, the Commercial Farmers Union reported on Saturday. Representative for the union Jenni Williams said the farmer, Charlie Brans was allegedly attacked by 20 war veterans while sitting in his office. He was […]
SIX men, who were accused of raping nine-month-old Baby Tshepang in Upington in the Northern Cape, are suing the state for wrongful arrest and job losses incurred during their four-month incarceration, their attorney confirmed on Friday. Attorney Albertus van Zyl said he was in the process of filing the lawsuit and was still calculating the […]
An man sustained burns to his hands and face while allegedly trying to steal copper cables from an electrical sub-station in Sandown, Johannesburg, on Friday morning. Johannesburg Emergency Rescue Services representative Malcolm Midgely said the injured man was transported to Rand Clinic under police guard. Power to area was interrupted for approximately one hour. – […]
A MEMBER of the South African Navy was killed and another Seriously injured in a shooting incident late on Thursday in Saldanha on the Cape West coast, the Chief of the Navy, Vice-Admiral Johan Retief, said on Friday. Early indication were that the incident was related to ”inter-personal domestic conflict”. The matter is being investigated […]
Six Russians arrested in George for illegally entering South Africa were released on Tuesday after they each paid a R1 000 admission of guilt fine, Western Cape police said. Captain Eddie Cronje said on Wednesday the six used a private Volga Airways plane to enter the country on Saturday and failed to present themselves to […]
SENIOR officials of Nigeria’s ailing state-run electricity firm Nepa are in South Africa to study that country’s more efficient power-generating sector, a press report said on Sunday. The National Electric Power Authority (Nepa) produces between 2 000 and 4 000 megawatts of electricity for Nigeria’s 120-million people, less than a tenth of what is produced […]
MARIETTE LE ROUX, Bloemfontein | Thursday GRAEME Michael Eadie on Wednesday lost a bid in the Supreme Court of Appeal to have a murder conviction and 10-year jail term overturned for beating a man to death in a fit of apparent ”road rage” in June 1999. Appeal Judge Mohamed Navsa rejected Eadie’s defence of temporary […]