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/ 20 September 2004
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has called for an end to the management failures and ”lunacy” in the country’s public sector, saying the finances channelled to government have to be translated into concrete improvements in poverty, education and services.
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/ 20 September 2004
The government was finalising a multi-million rand aviation security plan, which would provide resources to secure airports around the country, Transport Minister Jeff Radebe confirmed on Monday. ”We [the government] are in the final stages of finalising the national aviation security plan,” and the plan would be put into effect ”as soon as possible”.
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/ 20 September 2004
South Africa continued its record performance to become one of the fastest-growing payment-card countries in the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (Cemea) region in the year to the end of June, Visa International Cemea announced on Monday. South Africa witnessed exceptional growth on all key parameters.
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/ 20 September 2004
Mark Thatcher has won a reprieve from a South African court order that he testify under oath about his alleged involvement in a plot to stage a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, his lawyer said on Monday. State prosecutors have asked a Cape Town court to delay the testimony scheduled for Wednesday, when the son of a British former prime minister was to answer questions put to him by the Malabo goverment.
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/ 20 September 2004
A Harare judge on Monday dismissed charges against four directors of the banned independent Daily News newspaper, citing insufficient evidence. CEO Samuel Nkomo and three directors were arrested in October on charges of illegally publishing the newspaper under provisions of Zimbabwe’s strict media laws.
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/ 20 September 2004
Tropical Storm Jeanne brought raging floodwaters to Haiti, killing at least 90 people in the battered nation and leaving dozens of Haitian families huddled on rooftops as the storm pushed further out into the open seas, officials said. Floods tore through the north-western coastal town of Gonaives and surrounding areas.
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/ 20 September 2004
About 500 residents of Zamani in Memel were blocking the access road to the township in protest over service delivery, eastern Free State police said on Monday morning. Captain Veronica Ntepe said schoolchildren were among the protesters. The group were using old car wrecks and dustbins to block the road.
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/ 20 September 2004
HIV/Aids could be responsible for five million deaths by 2011 and this figure could rise to nine or 10-million by 2021, according to new research released on Monday. The report, A Projection of the South African Population, 2001 to 2021 shows the total number of Aids-related deaths a year between 2007 to 2011 is expected to exceed 500 000 per year.
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/ 20 September 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was drifting in the red at midday on Monday on the back of profit-taking after its strong rally last week and softer European markets. Dealers said that there was also a general lack of interest in the market, which had no fresh news to drive it.
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/ 20 September 2004
Roy Disney said he had heard the myths at Walt Disney for a long time — that Salvador Dali’s artworks from a long-forgotten project were somewhere in the studio’s archives. It turned out not to be a myth. The artwork — which Disney valued at -million to -million — sat in the studio unseen by the public for 58 years. That is, until now.