The families of Libyan children infected with the Aids have dropped demands for the death penalty in the case of six foreign medics on death row in the case, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. The announcement came as Libya’s top legal body was to rule on Tuesday on the medics’ fate.
The Harry Potter books have spawned a parallel universe on the internet, where sites attract millions of fans every day and play a major part in the success of the novels and their Hollywood adaptations. So popular are JK Rowling’s stories, and the web pages built around them, that a handful of online fans have become stars in their own right.
A British employment tribunal ordered rock star Sting and his wife Trudie Styler to pay 000 in compensation on Tuesday for wrongfully dismissing their former chef. Jane Martin, who cooked for Sting and his family at their country estate in England, filed a claim in July last year saying she had been sacked by Styler after revealing she was pregnant.
A joint working group under the chairpersonship of President Thabo Mbeki has concluded that the targets set by the Growth and Development Summit four years ago have been 90% fulfilled. A figure of 4,2% is outstanding and 5,8% could be described as work in progress. The group met at the Union Buildings on Tuesday.
State media published photographs on Tuesday said to have been taken by a camera hidden in the bedroom of Zimbabwean Roman Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube, claiming they show the outspoken government critic undressing along with a woman named in an adultery case.
Ernie Els’s record in the British Open is of the highest order, but the suspicion remains that it could and should have been even better. The big South African will be playing in his 17th Open Championship at Carnoustie this week with his one win to date coming in the 2002 edition at Muirfield, where he won a four-man play-off.
Perpetrators of apartheid crimes should be given the chance to tell their stories to enable closure for their victims and for themselves, Director General in the Presidency Frank Chikane said on Tuesday at a press conference at the Union Buildings. He criticised those who say the book on apartheid-era crimes should be closed.
Egyptian officials have found torture gear including a whip, clubs and a barbed wire-studded stick at a police station in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, a security source said on Tuesday. An investigating team found that 40 people had been kept in custody ”illegally” at the Montaza police station after receiving complaints from the families of those detained.
Gunmen dressed in Iraqi military uniforms stormed a village in the restive Iraqi province of Diyala, north-east of Baghdad, overnight and murdered 29 people, security officials said on Tuesday. And insurgents continued to carry out attacks in the capital, setting off two car bombs in Baghdad, including one near the Iranian embassy.
Vodacom is going to court again, this time to prevent striking workers from violence and damaging property, the Communication Workers’ Union said on Tuesday. Vodacom lodged an application for the second interdict last week and the matter would be heard on Wednesday, said CWU spokesperson Mfanafuthi Sithebe.