TUESDAY, 12.00NOON AT least half of SA’s pharmacies, represented by United SA Pharmaceuticals, have precipitated a furore by announcing they will introduce a R20,90 dispensing fee, raising the ire of medical aid schemes, who believe the move will lead to a 17% increase in average medicine costs, and lead to patients paying cash for prescription […]
TUESDAY, 4.30PM The special Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing into the role of the medical profession in apartheid human rights abuses on Tuesday heard that asbestos mining companies suppressed the findings of scientific research in the 1960s into the health risks of exposure to asbestos. The claim was made as part of the submission by […]
MONDAY, 1.30PM THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission has warned 24 medical doctors that they may be implicated in gross human rights abuses at its two-day hearing this week on the medical profession’s role in supporting apartheid. The doctors are named in a 200-page submission to be presented to the commission by the Health and Human […]
MONDAY, 8.30AM A TEAM of South African financial experts, including representatives from the Reserve Bank, the Department of Trade and Industry, the Development Bank, and foreign affairs, will fly to Congo-Kinshasa this week as the first part of a South African aid package to the new government. Deputy foreign minister Aziz Pahad said: “The new […]
MONDAY, 10.00AM: The last day of the 1997 Castle Premiership League season saw Kaizer Chiefs consolidate their second position on the log, with a 1-0 win over Amazulu at Johannesburg Stadium on Sunday. This gave Chiefs the points they needed to pull out ahead of arch-rivals Orlando Pirates, who were neck-and-neck with Chiefs at 63 […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM MORE than 150 South African Aids patients were enticed into a drug testing programme run by Swiss pharmaceutical multinational Roche after Johannesburg Aids experts falsely claimed they would receive free drugs for life. The patients entered an 80-week programme run with Wits University and Johannesburg Hospital which dramatically halted deterioration in their conditions, […]
MONDAY, 2.30PM ANGOLAN state radio on Sunday accused former rebel movement Unita of mobilising troops in the northern province of Uige, in the region of renewed fighting that is threatening the country’s fragile peace. The radio quoted vice-governor of defence in the province, Fernando Jose Kenge, as saying heavily armed Unita troops had been seen […]
MONDAY, 8.30AM: ERNIE ELS won the US Open at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda Maryland on Sunday, showing his true class as he wore away his opponents in a terrible war of attrition. “It is always a war on the golf course, and this time I won,” said Els. “It was great competition out there […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM MOHALE MAHANYELE, executive chairman of the troubled National Sorgum Breweries, has offered to quit after weekend press reports accusing him of extravagant spending. An auditor’s report leaked to the press reveals that he spent R168 736 on cellphone expenses, R277 131 on his company credit card and R231 256 on “other expenses”. It […]
MONDAY, 3.00PM: SOUTH African Charl Mathus has won the 1997 Comrades Marathon. This year’s race was run downhill from Pietermaritzburg to Durban, and Matheus narrowly missed breaking Bruce Fordyce’s down record time. First Woman home was American favourite Ann Trason, who won last year’s women’s race. The victory was a special one for Matheus, who […]