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/ 5 December 2006
Allen Carr, the Briton who helped millions of people to quit smoking, died on November 29 after losing his battle with lung cancer, his spokesperson said. The 72-year-old, a former 100-a-day smoker who stubbed out his last cigarette 23 years ago, died at his home near Malaga, southern Spain, with his family at his bedside, she added.
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/ 5 December 2006
The Springbok team management have condemned the number of old South African flags that were on view during their tour of Ireland and England and upon their return home on Tuesday. A couple of flags greeted the team’s first black captain, Chiliboy Ralepelle, at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport on Tuesday.
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/ 5 December 2006
The South African Chamber of Business on Tuesday announced that the figure recorded for its Business Confidence Index (BCI) in November represented an all-time high. The figure recorded was 103,2, the highest since a previous level of 103,1 was registered in April 2006.
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/ 5 December 2006
President Thabo Mbeki will join United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and other leaders at the inauguration in Kinshasa on Wednesday of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila. In his weekly newsletter on the ANC website last Friday, Mbeki paid tribute to the various formations and leaders who guided the DRC through its transition.
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/ 5 December 2006
Diabetes is striking growing numbers of children around the world as parents and doctors fail to diagnose a disease that until recently was associated mostly with middle-aged and elderly people, experts said on Tuesday. ”Diabetes has become a chronic and common disease among children,” Francine Kaufman, a professor of paediatrics, told a news conference.
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/ 5 December 2006
The United Nation’s top human rights forum will hold a special session on violations in Sudan’s strife-torn region of Darfur on December 12, the world body announced on Tuesday. European and African states in the UN Human Rights Council last week joined forces to call the urgent session, but a date for the session had yet to be set.
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/ 5 December 2006
Zimbabwe, reeling under an economic meltdown, has frozen fees charged by private schools and will impose jail terms on offenders, Education Minister Aeneas Chigwedere was quoted as saying on Tuesday. He said many schools had hiked ”their fees and levies excessively, placing themselves beyond the reach of many schoolchildren”.
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/ 5 December 2006
Pakistan fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif on Tuesday had their bans for doping overturned by an appeals committee. The pair was cleared because neither was advised on taking vitamin supplements that may have led to them testing positive for the banned steroid nandrolone, chairperson Fakhruddin Ibrahim told reporters in Karachi.
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/ 5 December 2006
When the Premier Soccer League (PSL) and sponsors Telkom came up with the slogan ”It’s a whole new ball game” for South Africa’s richest soccer tournament, it could hardly have been on the premise that the final of the Telkom Knockout would emerge as a crowd-pulling white elephant.
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/ 5 December 2006
Minister of Transport Jeff Radebe has announced a road-safety initiative that will be piloted this festive season, his office said on Tuesday. ”Road accidents are the work of man. We create them ourselves and we must therefore also solve the problem,” said Radebe in a speech.