EGYPTIAN smokers spend an average of nearly 22% of their income on tobacco, said the country’s health minister. The minister said Egyptians spend $1,08-billion every year on tobacco, which for an individual smoker averages almost 22% of their income. Egypt, home to nearly 68-million people, consumes about 85-billion cigarettes every year, according to 2001 figures. […]
Former president Nelson Mandela on Sunday proposed a radical challenge to South Africa’s Aids policy.
Johannesburg | Monday THE SA National Defence Force will transfer about 7 700 ”earmarked” soldiers to the police to help in the fight against crime by mid-year. ”The earmarked soldiers are literate and have no criminal records,” Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said at the weekend. He said the transfers would free up resources within the […]
CAPE Town police are investigating the discovery of barrels of human bone fragments on the site of a derelict crematorium. The bones were found in a disused shed in the Kraaifontein industrial area, along with containers of acid apparently used to reduce bodies to bone. Policeman Superintendent Wicus Holtzhausen said on Friday police were probing […]
A 14-year-old schoolgirl lost both her legs when she fell under a train at the Khayelitsha railway station near Cape Town on Friday. Metrorail representative Riana Jacobs said the accident happened shortly before 8am when the girl ran to catch the train. She slipped and fell between the platform and the train. Jacobs said the […]
Producer prices are expected to have risen by 1,5% in January, lifting the annual PPI rate to 9,0%, SCMB Securities said on Tuesday. The official rate will be released in Pretoria on Wednesday. Pressure from the domestic component is likely to have grown. Agriculture and food at manufacturing were expected to have been key drivers […]
A 19-YEAR-old mother is suspected of murdering her 18-month-old baby boy by feeding him three cups of paraffin, Northern Province police said. Police representative Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said the crime took place around 9.30pm on Thursday night at Waterval, near Elim in the Louis Trichardt district. The toddler was taken to the Elim Hospital where […]
Johannesburg | Monday THE commission of inquiry into the rapid depreciation of the rand started in Sandton, Johannesburg, on Monday with the first witness giving a detailed description on the workings of the foreign exchange market. Robert McCauley, an expert in foreign exchange markets from the Bank for International Settlements, told the commission that the […]
ERIKA DE BEER, Pretoria | Monday A SECOND rugby player on trial for the murder of Tshepo Matloha has apologised to the Northern Province teenager’s parents for throwing his body into a dam. ”What we did was not right,” Kobus Joubert told the Pretoria High Court on Monday. ”I got quite a fright. I’ve never […]
Cape Town | Monday LOCAL astrophysicists and astronomers are sounding out their counterparts in other parts of Africa on the viability of establishing the continent’s first space science institute. ”The creation of an African Institute of Space Science (AISS) would be a step towards ensuring Africa will be an active participant when decisions about the […]