2015-01-01 South Africa Health

Telegraph.co.uk   

Ebola Still Spreading, WHO Reports   
New York Times
The Ebola virus is still spreading in West Africa, especially in Sierra Leone, and the worldwide toll from the outbreak stood at 7,905 deaths among 20,206 known cases at year's end, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Sierra Leone reported 337 ...

2015-01-01 South Africa Science

Times LIVE   

Birding expert trains new generation of Zimbabweans   
The New Age Online
He has a passion for birds and he's found a way of passing it on to future generations of Zimbabweans. Peter Magosvongwe, a freelance professional bird guide from Zimbabwe's Bvumba Mountains, is also a peripatetic teacher of ornithology, giving lessons ...

2015-01-01 South Africa Sports

Mail & Guardian Online   

Names that will put you ahead of the fame   
Mail & Guardian Online
With a packed sports calendar for 2015, Luke Alfred picks out 15 South African sports stars to watch. Kagiso Radaba. (Getty). 1. Handré Pollard Despite losing his Springbok flyhalf berth to Pat Lambie during the end-of-year European tour, Pollard is ...

2015-01-01 South Africa Entertainment

Times LIVE   

This is how Bonang, Chad le Clos and other stars are spending New Years Eve   
Times LIVE
DREAMING OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS: 'I work so hard for 11 months of the year, so Christmas is the perfect excuse for spoiling myself. And I have a tradition - the New Year's Eve dress. I'll be shopping around for that when I land in Cape Town' - Bonang ...

2015-01-01 South Africa Technology

IT News Africa   

MTN Launches video on demand services   
IT News Africa
Subscription to this exciting service is available for both prepaid, postpaid, hybrid and My MTNChoice customers. (image credit: http://tygervalley.co.za/ via Google.com). MTN has launched a subscription-based digital entertainment service called MTN ...

2015-01-01 South Africa Business

Businessweek   

Indonesia Hopes to Find AirAsia Plane's Black Box as Skies Clear   
Businessweek
Indonesian authorities expressed optimism of finding the crashed AirAsia Bhd. (AIRA) jetliner's black box today after adverse weather hindered earlier efforts. “We hope to locate the black box by the end of today,” Hadi Tjahjanto, a spokesman for the country's ...

2015-01-01 South Africa South Africa

Independent Online   

Ten murder suspects in court   
Independent Online
Cape Town -. Ten murder suspects were denied bail in the Mdantsane Magistrate's Court, Eastern Cape, on Wednesday. They allegedly beat a man to death on December 1 in what police believed was a mob justice attack, police spokesman Nkosikho Mzuku ...

2015-01-01 South Africa Africa

Daily Sun   

Kano budgets N210.7bn for 2015   
Nigerian Tribune
However, a sum of 64 per cent was estimated to go for capital expenditure and 36 per cent for recurrent expenditure. Governor Musa Kwankwaso, the state governor, said the budget is tagged 'budget of celebration and change.' While presenting the budget, ...

2015-01-01 South Africa World

New York Times   

35 Killed, 46 Injured in Shanghai Stampede   
New York Times
SHANGHAI — Thirty-five people died in a stampede during New Year's celebrations in Shanghai's historic waterfront area, city officials said Thursday — the worst disaster to hit one of China's showcase cities in recent years. A Shanghai government statement ...