THE United States urged Arab leaders to remain focused on a
Saudi Middle East peace initiative, while it pressed for
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak to attend the Arab League summit in Beirut.
A GUNMAN killed eight people and injured 18 others when he opened fire in the town hall of the Paris suburb of Nanterre early
on Wednesday following a council meeting, French emergency services
announced.
VANCOUVER – A CANADIAN Supreme Court judge ruled on Tuesday that a man
who wrote about children having sex with adults was not guilty of
possessing pornographic texts because the stories had artistic merit.
AUCKLAND – EATING flying foxes which had consumed palm seeds may be the
reason why a small group of Pacific Island people were devastated
by a terrifying mental illness, according to new research published in an American academic journal, Neurology.
SOUTH AFRICA’s official unemployment rate rose by 3,1%
between February and September last year, Statistics SA said on
Tuesday.
SOUTH AFRICAN standards of corporate governance had to be
improved so as to attract more investment which was vital to
economic growth, Judge Mervyn King said when he released his
long-anticipated second report ”King II”.
Launching the report in Sandton, King, the drafting committee’s
chairman, said good corporate governance made good business sense
and South African business and the government had to improve
standards.
Soweto | Monday FORMER Bafana Bafana midfield maestro and Kaizer Chiefs playmaker, Doctor Khumalo, was shot and wounded when gunmen opened fire on guests at a Soweto wedding in Orlando West on Sunday, his club confirmed. Kaizer Chiefs spokesman Putco Mafani confirmed on Monday that Khumalo and former Bafana Bafana team doctor, Dr Victor Ramathesele, […]
Pretoria | Monday SOUTH AFRICA on Monday voiced displeasure at what it described as an inclination by developed nations to punish all of Africa for Zimbabwe’s sins. ”If one country has done certain things… you must not try to also punish other people,” Deputy President Jacob Zuma told reporters in Pretoria. ”There is a tendency […]
Pretoria | Tuesday SOUTH African justice minister Penuell Maduna has apologised after he said that a Pretoria High Court judgement on nevirapine supply was not binding in other provinces. Maduna issued the statement through his representative Paul Setsetse. Legal experts on Tuesday also slammed Maduna’s comments, saying the court’s decision that nevirapine should be made […]
Pretoria | Wednesday THERE was a strong likelihood that petrol producer Sasol and Deutsche Bank colluded to cause a drop in the value of the rand, alleged SA Chamber of Commerce (Sacob) chief executive Kevin Wakeford in a letter to President Thabo Mbeki. The letter published in the latest copy of Financial Mail said the […]