No image available
/ 14 October 2004
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has cancelled its Great South Africans TV programme two weeks after the series started, the national broadcaster announced on Thursday. ”We are going back to the drawing board on this one,” said CEO Peter Matlare.
No image available
/ 14 October 2004
National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete has granted permission for Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille and the former chairperson of the standing committee on public accounts (Scopa), Gavin Woods, to appear in court as state witnesses in the trial of Schabir Shaik.
No image available
/ 14 October 2004
A Ghanaian-registered cargo jet bound for Spain crashed shortly after take-off in eastern Canada on Thursday, killing all seven crew members, police said. The crew members on Thursday were all from South Africa and Zimbabwe, an airline spokesperson said. Some remains of the crew members have been recovered.
No image available
/ 14 October 2004
Zimbabwean security forces are on high alert ahead of Friday’s expected verdict in the the treason trial of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi said, warning that outbreaks of violence will not be tolerated. Meanwhile, South Africa’s Democratic Alliance on Thursday called Tsvangirai’s trial ”a farce”.
No image available
/ 14 October 2004
Themba Luke Radebe, one of four men accused of murdering members of two Benoni families in February, on Thursday accused the police of assaulting and torturing him to extract a confession. Radebe (44) told Judge Nico Coetzee in the Secunda High Court that a plastic bag was put over his head and kept there until he fainted.
No image available
/ 14 October 2004
In a bold attack on the compound housing the United States and Iraqi government headquarters, insurgents penetrated Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone and set off bombs at a market and a popular café on Thursday, killing seven people, including two Americans, the United States military said.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=123691">Iraq’s killing fields</a>
No image available
/ 14 October 2004
The United Nations special envoy for the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa, Martti Ahtisaari, was expected to arrive in the Eritrean capital, Asmara, on Wednesday to discuss the humanitarian situation in the country, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported.
No image available
/ 14 October 2004
Campaigners against alcohol abuse were up in arms on Thursday after the French Parliament voted in favour of a law which will ease the tight restrictions on advertising wine and possibly other drinks. Critics accused the centre-right government of President Jacques Chirac of abandoning a pledge to clamp down on alcohol abuse.
No image available
/ 14 October 2004
Africa must brace itself for an Aids time bomb as 8 000 people are infected with HIV a day in the region worst hit by the pandemic, the United Nations warned on Thursday. Seventy percent of the 45-million people worldwide infected with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa — even though the region is home to only 11% of the world’s population.
No image available
/ 14 October 2004
A respectable, middle-aged woman with a steady partner would leave the house while sleepwalking and have random sex with strangers, an Australian doctor said in a report on Thursday. Peter Buchanan, who treated the woman, said this was an example of a recently identified disorder known as sleep sex.