2015-05-26 South Africa Health

News24   

ARV shortages: DA is convinced the health department is to blame   
News24
The Democratic Alliance will ask Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi to explain whether the contracts for the supply of antiretroviral medicine were signed on time after it was reported that hospitals were running out of stock. Wilmot James, the DA's shadow ...

2015-05-26 South Africa Science

SlashGear   

NASA discovers brightest galaxy, burning with 300 trillion suns   
SlashGear
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has discovered a remote galaxy, far, far away that is the brightest galaxy known to date. Researchers calculated it burns with the light of 300 trillion suns. The sheer brightness of this galaxy puts it in an ...

2015-05-26 South Africa Sports

Sport24   

Cosafa Cup shocks continue   
Sport24
Rustenburg - The shocks continued in the Cosafa Cup 2015 quarter-finals as Ghana were ousted by Madagascar in Monday's first match at the Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace, reports the supersport.com website. Following on from exits for defending ...

2015-05-26 South Africa Entertainment

NEWS.com.au   

Kim's makeover: 'I started crying'   
NEWS.com.au
SHE is known for wearing body-con dresses, plunging necklines and sky-high heels but Kim Kardashian's style wasn't always so polished. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star said she “started crying” when Kanye West told her to throw out clothes and ...

2015-05-26 South Africa Technology

BusinessTech   

BMW, Nissan to expand green cars plug-in network in S.Africa   
Reuters
CAPE TOWN May 25 The South African units of BMW and Nissan will build a national grid for electric and hybrid cars to expand sales of vehicles that could reduce pollution in Africa's top auto market. The two companies will roll out fast-charging stations from ...

2015-05-26 South Africa Business

Times LIVE   

Power alert: Better than last week   
Independent Online
ESKOM predicted few power cuts this week after it completed its maintenance on some of its units. Spokesman Khulu Phasiwe said this week should be much better than the previous one, when the utility was forced to implement stage 2 load shedding for ...

2015-05-26 South Africa South Africa

Independent Online   

Africa brings huge benefits for SA: Patel   
Independent Online
Johannesburg - Xenophobia must be countered by spreading the message to ordinary South Africans about the huge benefits which the rest of Africa brought to this country, Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim Patel said on Monday. He was speaking ...

2015-05-26 South Africa Africa

Telegraph.co.uk   

Grace Mugabe, the businessman and the Hong Kong villa   
Telegraph.co.uk
The cash-strapped Zimbabwe government is to fight a potentially embarrassing legal case in Hong Kong over a £4 million luxury villa said to be one of the favourite properties of the controversial first lady, Grace Mugabe. The house, set among the green hills ...

2015-05-26 South Africa World

NDTV   

Taiwan proposes plan to ease South China Sea tensions   
Washington Post
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has issued a proposal to ease tensions in a vast, resource-rich Asian ocean where China has chafed against its neighbors by expanding islets with landfill to solidify its claims in the region. Ma's initiative ...