Johannesburg | Monday A South African engineer has invented a hair dryer-type decontaminating device to be used in combatting chemical and biological attacks, a domestic newspaper reported on Sunday. The Johannesburg-based Sunday Times said the device is a hand-held turbine jet that uses hot air instead of water to blow clean contaminated surfaces. It weighs […]

Cape Town | Monday SACKED Cape Town mayor Peter Marais used public money to pay for three newspaper adverts in which he trumpetted his return to office, Business Day reports. Marais said in the advertisements (which cost about R16 000, according to the newspaper) that he had been “fully cleared of all speculative allegations”. His […]

Johannesburg | Monday POLICE raided several companies this week suspected of selling sunflower seed oil labelled as ”olive oil” — cheating consumers all over the country out of millions of rand. Over the past two months the M-Net magazine programme Carte Blanche worked closely with the SA Olive Growers Association (Saoga) and a team of […]

Pretoria | Monday TWO buildings at the University of SA were evacuated and about 20 people taken to hospital on Monday morning following an anthrax scare. The evacuation of the administration building and library was ordered after mail covered with a white powdery substance arrived at the institution, Unisa representative Doreen Gough said. ”We could […]

Honeydew, Johannesburg | Monday COMMUNITY leaders at an informal settlement in Honeydew, western Johannesburg vowed on Monday to drive out all Zimbabwean residents in the area after simmering tensions boiled over at the weekend. Violence at the Zandspruit informal settlement broke out on Sunday when South African residents set fire to their Zimbabwean neighbours’ homes. […]