Mom stole for brain-damaged son and other brief reports
* A woman who stole from her employer to pay her brain-damaged son\'s medical expenses has been sentenced in Springs to three years of correctional supervision. Anna Kotze (56) admitted guilt on 23 charges of theft involving R269 000. Beeld
* The Public Servants Association plans legal action to prevent the state from reducing the medical benefits of officials who retired before July 1992, it said yesterday. Business Day * About 8 000 Japanese firms will have to report emissions of six greenhouse gases after the Diet passed a Bill to revise the current anti-global warming promotion law. The Japan Times