A SOUTH African government minister is making a secret herbal medicine out of peach leaves to help treat Aids, the Sunday Times reported. It said the medicine was mixed and brewed in a hut on Public Works Minister Stella Sigcau’s property in the poor Eastern Cape province and had already been dispensed to at least […]
Former South African President Nelson Mandela (83) has prostate cancer and will receive radio therapy for seven weeks.
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THE 35-thousand entrants in the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour earlier this year spent R66-million in Cape Town, according to a impact study carried out by the Cycle Tour and the City of Cape Town Council. If travel to and from the city is included, the direct economic benefit of the Tour is […]
IRIN Copenhagen | Monday A DANISH company, the DLH Group, has decided to stop importing Liberian timber in reaction to a public call by three non-governmental organisations that it stop dealing with Liberian logging companies implicated in arms trafficking. DLH imported logs from the Liberia-based Oriental Timber Company and Royal Timber Corporation into Europe. Greenpeace, […]
NIGERIA’S second largest port, in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt, is in danger of collapsing because of corrosion of underwater structures, officials stated on Thursday. The port in Port Harcourt was built some 88 years ago and many of its structures are now crumbling, officials said, confirming reports in the Nigerian press. On […]
SOUTH African platinum stocks are seen coming under renewed selling pressure on Thursday because of more weakness in the price of the white metal, putting downward pressure on the overall market, traders said. The market has been pushed lower this week by steep reverses in platinum counters as investors watched platinum and palladium prices touching […]
THE South African government said on Sunday it would release its long-delayed final telecoms policy directives on Thursday which would cover the ”diverse views and needs” of all South Africans. In an advertisement in Sunday newspapers, the Department of Communications invited all stakeholders to attend the launch of the directives at 0800 GMT on Thursday. […]
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MORE than 100 people have been killed since January in clashes between armed groups in Rusizi, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a human rights group claimed. Of the 104 people killed, 13 triggered anti-personnel mines while the others died when the Rusizi plain “became a battlefield between several armed groups,” the League of Rights […]