Nando’s, the fast-food chicken outlet, has not been singled out by the government’s Healthy Lifestyle campaign, a spokesperson for the minister of health said on Monday. Media reports said the minister of health was sent a letter by Nando’s demanding she withdraw remarks allegedly made about its food being unhealthy.
Civilisation has outgrown animal bounties, an oceanographic scientist said on Monday following calls to hunt down sharks after an attack on a Cape spear-fisherman. ”Bounties come from the Dark Ages,” said the director of the Oceanographic Research Institute in Durban.
The CEO of the Border Cricket Board in East London and a South African National Defence Force major were among 12 people arrested on Monday on fraud charges, Eastern Cape police said.
Media hoping to interview Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Monday were threatened with arrest outside the African National Congress headquarters. Johannesburg metro police officers told reporters, photographers and cameramen that if they crossed a tape barricade, they would be arrested.
Michael Jackson is physically shattered but ”emotionally resolute” and confident of acquittal as he awaits a jury verdict in his child sexual-molestation case, long-time confidant Reverend Jesse Jackson said in a television interview on Monday. The United States minister said he met with the pop star at a hospital overnight on Sunday.
African Union-mediated peace talks on the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region are set to open in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, on Friday, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo’s spokesperson said on Monday. Meanwhile, the International Criminal Court in The Hague said it will launch a war-crimes probe into atrocities committed in Darfur.
Police in Germany said on Monday they stopped a vehicle on suspicion that it was being driven by a human skeleton — only to find out that no traffic laws were violated. The life-sized durable plastic skeleton — wearing only a pair of sunglasses over the eyeball sockets — was sitting in the left front seat.
Britain announced on Monday that it is shelving plans for a referendum on the European Union Constitution until its fate becomes clearer, driving another stake into the heart of the beleaguered treaty. The move was announced by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in a statement to Parliament on Monday.
Oscar winning Hollywood star Russell Crowe was arrested in New York on Monday and charged with assault after allegedly hurling a telephone at a hotel employee, a police spokesperson said. Police were called to the swanky Mercer Hotel in SoHo, downtown Manhattan at around 4.20am.
Minister of Education Naledi Pandor’s assurances to whistle-blowers are hollow if her department cannot take the minor administrative steps needed to protect them, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday. A teacher from the Kamhola school in Barberton — one of the schools implicated in the cheating — was dismissed last week.