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/ 28 December 2007
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African National Congress president Jacob Zuma received a rousing welcome from the more than 5 000 people who turned out for his annual Christmas party in Nkandla on Friday where he was due to hand out presents to hundreds of children.
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/ 26 December 2007
A man in a clerical habit abused me in the church hall of the Johannesburg parish of the Immaculate Conception in Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank. It happened after a children’s Christmas party — and my abuser was a Catholic cleric. My uncle, Cardinal Owen McCann, was the archbishop of Cape Town at the time. His position as president of the South African Catholic Bishops’ Conference was not enough to deter my abuser.
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/ 26 December 2007
Arsenal have enjoyed Christmas Day at the top of the Premier League standings — and are hoping that history repeats itself and keeps them top at the end of the season. The club at the top at Christmas have won the league for the past three years — Manchester United last season and Chelsea in 2005 and 2006.
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/ 24 December 2007
Whether it’s drug dealers shooting at Santa in Rio, a father selling off a present to punish his son in Canada, or Manila authorities banning carols, Scrooge would have a field day this Christmas. In Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, suspected drug dealers fired gunshots at a helicopter flying Santa Claus into a slum to deliver presents to poor children.
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/ 16 December 2007
South Africa’s Missing Children website is to close during December due to a lack of funding. ”December is the busiest time of the year for runaways. There are the normal cases of naughty children running away during the holidays, but given the pressure on matric students waiting for results, we find an influx of kids running away,” said Pieter Boshoff, the organisation’s founder and director.
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/ 15 December 2007
Eastern Cape authorities are searching for TB patients who escaped from the Jose Pearson Hospital in the Nelson Mandela municipality. The Eastern Cape Health department said it was believed that 29 multidrug-resistant and 20 extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis patients cut through three of the hospital’s perimeter fences to make their escape.