Pilgrims advised to avoid midday sun
As hundreds of thousands of Haj pilgrims arrive in the holy city of Makkah for the annual pilgrimage, the Ministry of Health advised all pilgrims to avoid exposure to midday sun to prevent themselves from heat strokes due to dehydration.
SA to get 18 infrastructure projects
Johannesburg - Government has identified 18 infrastructure projects to take place in South Africa in the next 10 to 20 years, Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel said on Friday.
News Summary (17 Oct 2012)
1. Saudi Arabia set to enforce shisha ban
2. UN: ‘Islamists threaten to radicalize Syrian war’
3. Students protest at Jeff Radebe lecture
4. Food prices rise
5. ‘Arafat Day’ on 25 Oct
Saudi Arabia set to enforce shisha ban
A law against smoking the pipes, known in Arabic as shisha, in public places has been in place for years in some other Saudi cities, but it is only now being implemented in Jeddah, which is known as more socially liberal than the capital Riyadh.
Students protest at Jeff Radebe lecture
Cape Town - A small group of UCT students staged a silent picket opposing the Traditional Courts Bill during a lecture by Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Jeff Radebe on campus on Tuesday.
UN: ‘Islamists threaten to radicalize Syrian war’
UNITED NATIONS: The head of a UN-appointed panel probing alleged war crimes in Syria warned Tuesday that the presence of hundreds of radical Islamists threatens to radicalize the 19-month conflict which is already witnessing a dramatic rise in ethnic tensions.
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Food prices rise
KwaZulu-Natal - As food prices increase, poor households would increasingly be unable to buy necessary staples and would have to eat less or employ some other survival strategy, the Pietermaritzburg Agency for Christian Social Awareness said on Tuesday.
‘Arafat Day’ on 25 Oct
Arafat Day, when millions of Muslim pilgrims - including 2,500 South Africans - will stand in prayer on the mount of Arafat near Makkah at the peak of the annual pilgrimage, will be on Thursday 25 October, an official announcement said Tuesday.
News Summary (16 Oct 2012)
1. 9/11 case starts
2. Government departments R5bn gravy train
3. SA Trade ministry releases notice on West Bank goods
4. R346m TB, HIV research centre opens
5. Recycled sewage water in pipeline
Government departments R5bn gravy train
Government departments spent nearly R5 billion of their budgets on entertainment, catering and travel over the past financial year.
SA Trade ministry releases notice on West Bank goods
PRETORIA - The South African Trade Ministry has published a second notice concerning the labelling of Israeli products.
9/11 case starts
Long-delayed efforts to try self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and four co-defendants finally got under way Monday with a pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo. The pre-trial hearings began eleven years after the attacks and nine-and-a-half years after KSM’s capture in Pakistan.
R346m TB, HIV research centre
The KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-Rith) is now officially open.
Recycled sewage water in pipeline
Durban and Cape Town residents will have to start looking seriously at drinking recycled water from the local sewage works within the next few years as water supplies are running out and there is not enough time to build big new dams.
News Summary (15 Oct 2012)
1. Scientists devise easier test for a leading cause of blindness
2. Pilgrims offered Arabic lessons
3. Syria accused of cluster bomb use in civil war
4. Black business wants a bigger slice
5. SA labour turmoil curtailing growth
6. ‘E-toll details must be made public’
Pilgrims offered Arabic lessons
A charitable association in Makkah with the collaboration of Al-Bayan Arabic Institute is offering some pilgrims a rare opportunity to learn the language in the cradle of Islam itself.