09 September 2010 Zuma defends media tribunal President Jacob Zuma has again defended his party's call for the establishment of a media tribunal. This amid local and international protests, that this could restrict the work and independence of the media. The bill has drawn stinging criticism from all quarters, from media houses to Judge Richard Goldstone. Reuters, Bloomberg, AFP and the Associated Press - the world's four biggest news agencies have become the latest voicing their concern. Striking Numsa workers to march to PE today Hundreds of National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) members in the component industry are expected to march to the Port Elizabeth city centre today to hand over a memorandum of demands as the strike enters its second week. Numsa's leadership has conveyed a message of sympathy to its members in the auto manufacturing sector who have been negatively affected by strike action by fellow union members in the components sector. Capetonians SA's fattest About two-thirds of women in South Africa are overweight. This is just one of the findings in a survey done in July among 500 adults in the country's four biggest cities, on behalf of the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Altogether 72% of Cape Town's residents are overweight. Pretoria comes second at 68%, followed by Johannesburg at 59% and Durban at 52%. The study also showed that, with 61% of adults in these four cities being overweight, South Africa is the country with the third-most overweight citizens, with America coming first and Britain second. Australia is in fourth place. UN distressed by plan to burn Korans United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is deeply distressed by reports of a small religious group which plans to burn copies of the Koran. His voice adds to the growing condemnation that has already come from the White House, the State Department, America's top general in Afghanistan and even New York's Mayor. Florida Pentecostal minister, Terry Jones, announced his intentions to stage 'International Burn a Koran Day' on Saturday to coincide with the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the US - in the hopes of sending a clear message to radical Islam that America will not back down. Vitamin B 'puts off Alzheimer's' A new study suggests high doses of B vitamins may halve the rate of brain shrinkage in older people experiencing some of the warning signs of Alzheimer's disease. Brain shrinkage is one of the symptoms of mild cognitive impairment, which often leads to dementia. Researchers say this could be the first step towards finding a way to delay the onset of Alzheimer's.Experts said the findings were important but more research was needed. | 
