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/ 24 January 2007
Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa workers marched to its offices in Pretoria on Wednesday to demand compensation for radiation illness, Earth Life Africa said. ”The company has been disputing that the people are ill and are delaying providing compensation for them,” spokesperson Mashile Phalane said of the 100 demonstrators.
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/ 24 January 2007
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov questioned on Wednesday the purpose of a United States plan to place an anti-missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic. US officials say the system will protect it and it European allies from missiles that could be fired from North Korea, Iran or other ”rogue regimes”.
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/ 24 January 2007
Herschelle Gibbs’s appeal hearing against a ban of two Test matches imposed on him for breaching the International Cricket Council’s code of conduct was concluded via teleconference on Wednesday. The hearing was conducted by former Australia captain Richie Benaud, who was appointed as the appeals commissioner.
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/ 24 January 2007
Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to ”purify” the internet, state media reported on Wednesday, describing a top-level meeting that discussed ways to master the country’s sprawling, unruly online population. Hu, a straitlaced communist with little sympathy for cultural relaxation, did not directly mention censorship.
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/ 24 January 2007
A stunned Rafael Nadal was turfed out of the Australian Open on Wednesday by Fernando Gonzalez as Kim Clijsters ended the dreams of Martina Hingis to set up a semifinal showdown with Maria Sharapova. Russian third seat Nikolay Davydenko joined Nadal on the scrapheap, beaten by unfancied German Tommy Haas in five tough sets.
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/ 24 January 2007
South Africa will decide before the end of the week whether or not to send troops to Somalia as part of an African Union peacekeeping mission in that country, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said on Wednesday. He said the issue is being discussed at the Cabinet lekgotla (meeting) being held at the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria.
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/ 24 January 2007
Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride on Wednesday denied being drunk on the night he rolled his car in late December last year. McBride had left a metro year-end function after he played a game of football and was "not feeling well". But he said he has no "personal recollection" from the time he left the function.
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/ 24 January 2007
Debate has been raging for some time about whether people with HIV should start treatment when their CD4 count drops to 350 or 200.
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/ 24 January 2007
Award-winning Tsotsi star Presley Chweneyagae appeared briefly in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday when his case was postponed to February 27. His lawyer, Shane Lowley, asked the magistrate for the postponement on the grounds that the defence had no documentation and statements to work with as his client was arrested the previous day.
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/ 24 January 2007
The role of the match referee will come under scrutiny during an International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executives’ committee meeting in the United Arab Emirates later this week. The ICC’s executive board recommended last November that a paper be prepared following the Oval Test fiasco when umpires Darrell Hair and Billy Doctrove decided Pakistan had forfeited the match against England.