Lagos | Saturday A FRENCH medical team that visited the northern Nigerian city of Kano, where a cholera outbreak has already claimed over 250 lives, said the situation there was serious and the hospital “overflowing”. Volunteer medical group Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) – Doctors Without Borders – sent a medical team to the cholera-ravaged city […]

GOOLAM Hoosain Ismael Pahad, the father of Essop Pahad, Minister in the Presidency and Aziz Pahad, Deputy Foreign Minister died, on Thursday evening, a statement issued on behalf of the family said. He was 90 years old. Pahad was a leading member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the South African Indian Congress from the […]

PETER CUNLIFFE-JONES, Kongho, Nigeria | Sunday THE first time Iduate Enoch saw a turtle, he killed the beast and ate it. Now he goes out at night persuading others to let them live. ”It is a bit embarrassing,” says Enoch, a stalwart member of the Akassa Coast Conservation Initiative, or the Turtle Club as it […]

A DURBAN morgue worker and another man were arrested for trafficking of body parts on Friday, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Director Bala Naidoo said the anti-corruption unit and the elite crime fighting unit, the Scorpions, followed up information on the man who was employed at the Gale Street mortuary. Both a dealer and the man were […]

BONGANI MAGASELA, Cape Town | Sunday AIDS has been acknowledged as a serious threat to SA boxing while a number of rules and regulations could be amended or done away with when Boxing South Africa comes into effect next year. This became clear at the national convention in Cape Town on Saturday after separate reports […]

DRAFT legislation that aims to establish a single official scientific body to promote the development of research and the exchange of such knowledge in South Africa was passed unanimously by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Friday. Responding to debate on the measure in the House, Science and Technology Deputy Minister Bridgitte Mabandla said […]

Mexico City | Saturday AN alternative cancer therapy using the venom from blue scorpions has had a 97% success rate in Cuba, a researcher said in an interview published this week in the newspaper La Jornada. Cuban doctor Misael Bordier cautioned that while his patients were not cured of their cancers when treated with the […]

Harare | Saturday TENSION continued to rise in Zimbabwe late on Friday as violence escalated in the country’s second largest city following the murder there of a leader of the 1970s war of independence. Clashes were reported between government loyalists and members of the main opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), and Zimbabwean television […]