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/ 23 November 2006
Six car bombs killed at least 133 people in a Shi’ite stronghold in Baghdad on Thursday, one of the bloodiest attacks since the United States invasion and likely to inflame sectarian passions in a nation sliding towards civil war. A further 201 people were wounded, police said.
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/ 23 November 2006
A total of 303 cases of extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) have been confirmed across the country, the Department of Health said on Thursday. ”They are in the hospitals, they are on treatment. Some of them have died,” said the department’s head of TB, Dr Lindiwe Mvusi. Mvusi did not have details at hand of how many had died.
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/ 23 November 2006
Springbok prop Cobus Visagie has been named in both squads for next week’s match between South Africa and a World XV. Visagie, who plays for Saracens in the English Premiership, had been overlooked by South Africa coach Jake White for his team’s European tour, but the coach said he had been added to the squad for the December 3 game against the invitational side in Leicester.
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/ 23 November 2006
While employment is still growing in South Africa, it is not as strong as the 30Â 000 jobs being created per month last year. ”No matter which data set you look at, the fact that is that employment is still growing in South Africa … but we are off target for government’s goal of halving unemployment by 2014,” said economist Mike Schussler.
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/ 23 November 2006
More than 25 000 angry Rwandans protested in the capital of Rwanda, Kigali, on Thursday over France’s alleged complicity in the 1994 genocide after a French judge called for the prosecution of President Paul Kagame and associates. Led by genocide survivors and community leaders, thousands paraded through the streets.
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/ 23 November 2006
Security steps have been taken at the Kruger National Park in the wake of attacks at four entrance gates and camps of the park between August and October, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has said. Armed Kruger National Park security and ranger personnel have been deployed at all entrance gates.
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/ 23 November 2006
South African Soccer World Cup organisers said on Thursday they had complained to Canberra over suggestions that preparations for the 2010 tournament are in trouble and Australia could fill the breach instead. Danny Jordaan, head of the local organising committee, said that a letter had been sent to the Australian Foreign Ministry over recent remarks by several officials.
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/ 23 November 2006
Gay and Lesbian life-partners are entitled to inherit from the intestate estates of their partners just as spouses do, the Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday. The court upheld an earlier ruling by the Pretoria High Court that section 1(1) of the Intestate Succession Act of 1987 was unconstitutional because it excluded homosexual couples.
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/ 23 November 2006
North West police shot and wounded a reverend during a search for the man who escaped from Pretoria’s C-Max prison on the weekend. Captain Elsabe Augoustides said on Thursday that the incident happened when police received information about the whereabouts of a man resembling Annanias Mathe (29), who escaped from custody on Saturday.
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/ 23 November 2006
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) will look into establishing a code of conduct to avoid repeating past mistakes. Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi and president Willie Madisha said this at a press conference on Thursday following the Cosatu executive’s first meeting since its national congress.